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  • Crew, Michael A.  (5)
  • Lewis, Mervyn  (5)
  • Nickel, Johanna (1916-1984)
  • Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar  (10)
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  • 1
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    The role of the postal and delivery sector in a digital age (2014)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781782546344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 341 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The role of the postal and delivery service in a digital age
    DDC: 383.4
    Keywords: Postsektor ; Postmarkt ; Schrumpfende Märkte ; Digitale Güter ; Regulierung ; Postrecht ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Postal service Technological innovations ; Postal service ; Lease and rental services ; Technological innovations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age. The 25 original papers in this collection provide econometric analyses on the changing demand and elasticity of mail in the modern era. Proposed solutions to declining interest in the postal sector include closer links between mail services and the digital sphere, expansion of the parcel sector, changes to the universal service obligation, legal reform and regulatory change. Professors and students of regulatory economics will have an interest in this book, as will managers and other decision-makers working within the postal sector.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781782546344
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    Handbook on Islam and economic life (2014)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781783479825
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 696 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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    Keywords: Capitalism Religious aspects ; Islam ; Finance (Islamic law) ; Finance Religious aspects ; Islam ; Economics Religious aspects ; Islam ; Islam Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Islam ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: 'This volume presents carefully selected research by reputed scholars on diverse topics dealing with the economic life of Muslims. The book provides a perspective not only on key aspects of the moral economy but also on the behaviour and expectations of economic agents. The distinguished editors have made a valuable contribution by expanding the scope of typical Islamic economics literature and by including topics dealing with the day-to-day life of Muslim society.' (Zamir Iqbal, The World Bank Global Center for Islamic Finance Development). -- According to the most recent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly one in four people in the world are Muslim. In light of these numbers, Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is one of the first books to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere by focusing on the ways in which Islam shapes and interacts with the economy. With contributions from leading scholars, this unique Handbook explores how Islam impinges upon and seeks to condition major aspects of economic life including economic organisation, business and management, finance and investment, charity, mutuality and self-help, and government. It concludes by analysing the link between religion and development, the present economic circumstances in Arab countries and the vexed issue of the origins and causes of underdevelopment in Muslim countries. Covering a breadth of topics and research, this book will be essential reading for academics in both Muslim and western universities, graduates and postgraduates of Islamic studies as well as Islamic and other research institutes.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781783479825
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    Reforming the postal sector in the face of electronic competition (2013)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9780857935809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 406 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
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    ZO 9200
    Keywords: Postal service Management ; Postal service International cooperation ; Electronic commerce ; Postal service ; Mail receiving and forwarding services ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Privatization of postal operators : old arguments and new realities / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- The UK Postal Services Act 2011 / Richard Eccles -- A gravity model of international postal exchanges / Jose Anson and Matthias Helble -- Price comparisons in the parcel industry : a new approach based on the hedonic price theory / Claire Borsenberger, Sébastien Bréville and Aurélie Dehais -- A new governance model for U.S. postal services / James I. Campbell, Jr. --Estimates of U.S. postal price elasticities of demand derived from a random-coefficients discrete-choice normal model / Margaret M. Cigno, Elena S. Patel and Edward S. Pearsall --Segmentation and nonlinear pricing in the postal sector / Claire Borsenberger ... [et al.] -- The proposed reform of EU rules on public procurement : a postal sector perspective / Alessandra Fratini -- Optimization of the United States postal retail network by applying GIS and econometric tools / J.P. Klingenberg, Lyudmila Y. Bzhilyanskaya and Michael J. Ravnitzky -- Estimating long-run incremental cost in the postal sector : a UK perspective / Leonardo Mantino ... [et al.] -- Vulnerable users in times of declining demand : the case of basic bank services in Norway and Sweden / Henrik B. Okholm and Anna Möller -- Dynamic letter volume models : how does an economic downturn affect substitution propensities? / Vance L. Martin ... [et al.] -- Electronic substitution and USO scope definition / Marcello Cuomo ... [et al.] -- Letter traffic demand in the UK : some new evidence and review of econometric analysis over the past decade / Marzena Jarosik ... [et al.] -- Status of the postal service twenty years after the Green Paper : a Franco-European perspective / Joëlle Toledano -- Electronic substitution and postal price elasticities : a customer market approach / Leticia Veruete-Mckay ... [et al.] -- Measuring consumer preferences for postal services / C. Rohr ... [et al.] -- Efficiency analysis postal operators : comparison between United States and Europe / Maria Rita Pierleoni and Stefano Gori -- Termination charges in the international parcel market / Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner -- Competition and the social cost of regulation in the postal sector / Martin Maegli and Christian Jaag -- Measuring the environmental benefit of reducing the United States Postal Service's operations / Norma B. Nieto and Adam C. Houck -- Economic regulation and the UK postal sector, 2000-2011 / Tim Walsh -- What's past is prologue : understanding developments in North American postal markets / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins -- Human capital and diversification choices for postal operators / Dominique Bailly and Margaux Meidinger --Welfare and pricing with single-piece and bulk mail access competition in the postal sector / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- The postal economy in the UK and Rutgers CRRI conferences since 1990 : a review of developments and economic themes / Frank Rodriguez -- Social media challenges the entire postal industry / Kari Elkelä and Heikki Nikali.
    Abstract: In our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic competition, and offers expert recommendations for reshaping postal structures to strengthen their competitiveness in an electronic age
    DOI: 10.4337/9780857935809
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    Global finance after the crisis : the United States, China and the new world order (2013)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781951866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 294 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iley, Richard A., 1970 - Global finance after the crisis
    DDC: 332/.042
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    QK 640
    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Internationaler Finanzmarkt ; Finanzkrise ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Geldpolitik ; Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung ; China ; USA ; Europa ; Welt ; International finance ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Electronic books ; United States Economic conditions ; China Economic conditions ; Finance ; History ; 21st century ; International economic relations ; History ; 21st century ; Economic history ; 21st century ; Financial institutions ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Business cycles ; History ; 21st century ; Wirtschaftskrise
    Abstract: 1. The rapidly changing world economy -- 2. The great recession -- 3. Global finance and payments imbalances -- 4. The role of monetary policy -- 5. The post-crisis world -- 6. China's prospects and challenges -- 7. The US external position -- 8. The redback, the greenback and the troubled euro -- 9. Conclusions.
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    DOI: 10.4337/9781781951866
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    Multi-modal competition and the future of mail (2012)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9780857935823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 344 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Multi-modal competition and the future of mail
    DDC: 383.2
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    QR 720
    Keywords: Telekommunikation ; Postsektor ; Postmarkt ; Universaldienst ; Kommunikationsmedien ; EU-Staaten ; Postal service Economic aspects ; Competition ; Postal service ; Electronic mail systems ; Electronic books ; Postal service ; Economic aspects ; Competition ; Electronic mail systems
    Abstract: This compilation of original papers selected from the 19th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics and authored by an international cast of economists, lawyers, regulators and industry practitioners addresses perhaps the major problem that has ever faced the postal sector – electronic competition from information and communication technologies (ICT). This has increased significantly over the last few years with a consequent serious drop in mail volume. -- All postal services have been hard hit by ICT, but probably the hardest hit is the United States Postal Service, which has lost almost a quarter of its mail volume since 2007. The loss of mail volume has a devastating effect on scale economies, which now work against post offices, forcing up their unit costs. Strategies to stem the loss in volume include non-linear pricing or volume discounts, increased efficiency and the development of new products. This loss of mail volume from ICT is one of a number of current problems addressed in this volume. The Universal Service Obligation (USO) continues to be a leading issue and concern that ICT undermines postal services’ ability to finance the USO is discussed. The importance of measuring and forecasting demand and costs take on even greater importance as ICT undermines the foundations of the postal business. This thought provoking book brings to bear new analyses of the most serious threat post offices have ever faced and raises fundamental questions as to the future of mail.
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    DOI: 10.4337/9780857935823
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    Reinventing the postal sector in an electronic age (2011)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849805964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 379 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reinventing the postal sector in an electronic age
    RVK:
    ZO 9200
    Keywords: Postsektor ; Privatisierung ; Postsektor ; Telekommunikation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Electronic Commerce ; Europa ; USA ; Postal service ; Parcel post ; Electronic mail systems ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Transportdienst ; Post ; Automation ; Informationstechnik ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: This compilation of original essays by an international cast of economists, regulators and industry practitioners analyzes some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world as competition from information and communication technologies (ICT) has increased. Competition has become increasingly important in the postal sector for some time in the form of alternative entrants providing mail delivery. However, the competition from ICT in the form of email and instant messaging, the Internet, Facebook and other forms of social networking and portable wireless devices such as the iPad and Kindle may be even more significant. Mail volumes are falling and the economies of scale that have made possible daily deliveries to every address are being eroded. This book assesses volume these declines resulting from this so-called ‘eSubstituion’ and looks at the ways the postal sector can adapt to the rapid changes resulting from ICT. The impact of electronic invoicing on transactions mail, and the impact on bulk mail of electronic forms of advertising are examined. Strategies, including pricing and access policies, are discussed in the context of the increasing impact of ICT. A rethinking of the role of mail in an electronic age is taking place and this book provides the cutting-edge of this rethinking and the attempts of POs to reinvent themselves while continuing to meet the public’s expectation of continuing ubiquitous daily deliveries of traditional mail products.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849805964
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    An Islamic perspective on governance (2009)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781848449220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 368 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in money and finance
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iqbal, Zafar An Islamic perspective on governance
    DDC: 332.1091767
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    QC 010
    Keywords: Islam ; Governance-Ansatz ; Corporate governance ; Finance, Public ; Electronic books ; Islamische Staaten ; Islamische Philosophie ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Islam ; Governanceethik
    Abstract: Zafar Iqbal and Mervyn K. Lewis examine, from an Islamic perspective, some central issues in public, economic and corporate governance. Amongst topics analysed are theories of justice, taxation, budget deficits, Islamic financing modes, public and private accountability, and corruption. This unique and highly innovative book will have strong appeal for those with an interest in Islamic economics, public policy, banking, and Asian and Middle Eastern studies
    Abstract: 1. Perspectives on governance -- 2. The methodology of Islamic economics -- 3. Justice : the inner core of governance -- 4. An Islamic perspective on taxation -- 5. Problems of implementing taxation in Islamic countries -- 6. Islamic position on budget deficits -- 7. Financing methods for government bodies -- 8. Accountability and governance -- 9. Governance and corruption -- 10. Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-358) and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781848449220
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    Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector (2009)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781848447288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 347 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector
    DDC: 383.24
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    Keywords: 1991-2008 ; Postsektor ; Universaldienst ; Wettbewerb ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; Kosten ; Theorie ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Competition ; Delivery of goods ; Postal service ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Post ; Postzustellung ; Wettbewerb
    Abstract: Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume of the series covers progress made in the competitive agenda in the industry. It is global in scope and addresses topics of great importance to scholars and practitioners of postal regulation and public sector economics
    Abstract: 1. Service quality, price caps and the uso under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Estimating the impact of price regulation on service quality in post / Gregory Swinand ... [et al.] -- 3. Price and quality of service regulation in Portugal / João Castro and Agostinho Franco -- 4. Competition through downstream access in the UK postal sector : the first four years / Paul Dudley ... [et al.] -- 5. A dynamic and endogenous approach to financing the USO in a liberalized environment / François Boldron ... [et al.] -- 6. Postal costing beyond ABC : estimating the economic cost of mails services / Richard Robinson and Jane McMurdie -- 7. Costing elements of the universal service / Richard Bradley, Phil Burns and George Houpis -- 8. Calculating the cost of the universal service obligation : the need for a global approach. / Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner -- 9. Cost analysis and pricing of innovative postal products / Louis F. O'Brien, Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea -- 10. Some welfare and pricing implications of alternative regimes for value-added taxation of postal services / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 11. Postal price elasticities and intermedia competition : a multisided market approach. / Vincenzo Visco Comandini ... [et al.] -- 12. Network externalities and the USO : a two-sided market approach. / François Boldron ... [et al.] -- 13. Mail order businesses demand : a conceptual approach. / Xavier Ambrosini ... [et al.] -- 14. Internet advertising and direct mail : trends and analysis for the UK / Soterios Soteri ... [et al.] -- 15. Using operating data to measure labor input variability and density economies in United States Postal Service mail processing operations / A. Thomas Bozzo -- 16. Do differences in facility-specific mail processing unit costs have implications for the cost of the universal service obligation? / Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Matthew Robinson -- 17. The EU Postal Services and Public Procurement Law : legal and regulatory issues for the postal sector / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- 18. How should regulation be adjusted when universal service substitution grows? / Pekka Leskinen ... [et al.] -- 19. Market entry and competitive strategies in the German B2B parcel market / Helmut M. Dietl ... [et al.] -- 20. Bank of America, mail, and the environment / Lawrence G. Buc and Peter A. Soyka -- 21. Innovation in postal products and pricing : opportunities and obstacles in the reform era / Robert A.F. Reisner, Maynard Benjamin and Derek Osborn -- 22. The IPO as a driving force in the change process / Peter Koppe ... [et al.]
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781848447288
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    Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks (2006)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845429881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 438 p) , ill., map
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chiu, Becky Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks
    DDC: 338.6/2/0951
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Bank ; Finanzsektor ; Corporate Governance ; Wirtschaftsreform ; China ; Banks and banking Government ownership ; Government ownership ; Privatization ; Electronic books ; China Economic policy ; China ; Kreditwesen ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Öffentliche Wirtschaft ; China ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Öffentliche Wirtschaft ; Kreditwesen ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state-owned banks, which have long been troubled by the adverse loans of Chinese enterprises and face foreign competition in 2007 under China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine their extensive experience to give an authoritative account of China's enterprise and bank reform agenda, involving property rights, improved corporate governance and stimulating enterprise
    Abstract: 1. The nature of the problem -- 2. The background to China's economic reforms -- 3. The changing role of SOEs -- 4. Property rights reform -- 5. Corporate governance reforms -- 6. Financial sector reforms -- 7. Solving the SOE debt problem -- 8. Early case studies of SOEs -- 9. Recent case studies -- 10. Reviewing the evidence -- 11. Fostering entrepreneurship -- 12. Conclusions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845429881
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    Public private partnerships : the worldwide revolution in infrastructure provision and project finance (2004)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845423438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 268 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Grimsey, Darrin, 1966 - Public private partnerships
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Grimsey, Darrin, 1966 - Public private partnerships
    DDC: 363.6/068/1
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    Keywords: Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Projektfinanzierung ; Welt ; Infrastructure (Economics) Management ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Risk management ; Economic development projects Finance ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Projektfinanzierung ; Risikomanagement ; Public Private Partnership ; Infrastrukturleistung ; Public Private Partnership ; Projektfinanzierung ; Risikomanagement ; Infrastrukturleistung
    Abstract: This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies
    Abstract: 1. The nature of partnerships -- 2. The revolution in infrastructure -- 3. The origins of partnerships -- 4. Partnerships and conventional procurement of infrastructure -- 5. The structure of partnership agreements -- 6. Issues in public private partnerships -- 7. Risk management -- 8. The governance of partnerships -- 9. PPPs in emerging markets -- 10. An assessment
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845423438
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