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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (6)
  • Crew, Michael A.  (4)
  • Wuthnow, Robert
  • USA  (6)
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  • 1
    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.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781849805964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 379 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics series
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reinventing the postal sector in an electronic age
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    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.
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  • 3
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848447288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 347 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    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
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  • 4
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781847201614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 405 p)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International handbook on economic regulation
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    Keywords: Regulierung ; Deregulierung ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; Umweltpolitik ; Telekommunikation ; Energiewirtschaft ; Verkehr ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; OECD-Staaten ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Business enterprises Finance ; Law and legislation ; Public utilities Finance ; Law and legislation ; Trade regulation ; Central planning ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftslenkung ; Wirtschaft ; Regulierung
    Abstract: Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and practice of regulatory economics. This book will be an indispensable source for both students and practitioners of regulation
    Abstract: Development in the theory and practice of regulatory economics / Michael A. Crew and David Parker -- Economic regulation : principles, history and methods / Martin Ricketts -- Regulation, pricing and social welfare / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Regulating prices and service quality / Dan Elliott -- Utility regulation and competition in developing countries / Paul Cook -- Performance benchmarking in utility regulation : principles and the UK's experience / David Parker, Thoralf Dassler and David S. Saal -- Regulation and the cost of capital / Tim Jenkinson -- Information revelation and incentives / Phil Burns, Cloda Jenkins and Thomas Weyman-Jones -- Regulatory governance and the lessons from UK practice / Peter Vass -- Regulation and consumer representation / Michael Harker, Laurence Mathieu and Catherine Waddams Price -- Regulatory impact assessment / Colin Kirkpatrick -- Economics of environmental regulation : instruments and cases / Anthony Heyes and Catherine Liston -- The economics of access and interconnection charges in telecommunications / Timothy J. Tardiff -- Regulation and the structure of the telecommunications industry / Gregory M. Duncan and Lisa J. Cameron -- The regulation of energy : issues and pitfalls / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall -- Economic regulation of transport : principles and experience / Ian Savage --Regulation of water and sewerage services / Ian Byatt, Tony Ballance and Scott Reid
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 5
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    Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :Harvard Univ. Press,
    ISBN: 0-674-53903-6
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 276 S.
    DDC: 302/.14/0973
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    Keywords: Gemeenschap (sociologie) ; Individu en samenleving ; Individualisme ; Sociale integratie ; Survey-onderzoek ; Community organization ; Social networks ; Social participation ; Soziales Netzwerk. ; Gemeinschaft. ; USA ; USA. ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Gemeinschaft
    Abstract: Through a national survey of 1,500 Americans and more than 250 in-depth interviews with community leaders, volunteers, and ordinary citizens, Robert Wuthnow focuses his trained and caring eye on America's quest for community and spirituality in the contemporary world. "Loose connections" are Americans' new ways of joining together, from neighborhood task forces to support groups to meetings around single issues such as toxic waste or local schools. Americans are joining more varied and informal networks, and Wuthnow helps us understand why this is happening and how the experience of working with others toward specific ends, even in loose connections, contributes to stronger ties within the community as a whole.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 0-691-02892-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 429 S.
    DDC: 306/.0973
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    Keywords: Arbeid ; Economische ethiek ; Geld ; Materialisme ; Monnaie - Aspect moral - États-Unis ; Morale des affaires - États-Unis ; Sociale waarden ; Travail - Aspect moral - États-Unis ; Travail et famille - États-Unis ; Valeurs sociales - États-Unis ; Ethik ; Business ethics ; Money Moral and ethical aspects ; Social values ; Work and family ; Work Moral and ethical aspects ; Wertordnung. ; États-Unis - Conditions morales ; USA ; United States Moral conditions ; USA. ; Wertordnung
    Abstract: The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow - not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working harder than ever, and yet many of us feel that we are not realizing our higher aspirations as individuals or as a people. Here Wuthnow examines the struggles in which American families are now engaged as they try to balance work and family, confront the pressures of consumerism, and find meaning in their careers. He suggests that we can find economic instruction and inspiration in the nation's past - in such figures as Benjamin Franklin, for instance, who was at once the prudent Poor Richard, the engaged public person, and the enthusiastic lover of life.
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