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Progress toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 2005
1690 kr
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The European Commission and its member states, along with many others, are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of the postal sector while maintaining the universal service obligation. This book addresses some of these concerns. It is comprised of original …
Regulation and Economic Analysis
A Critique over Two Centuries
Av R.L. Gordon
Inbunden, 1994
1129 kr
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This text argues that long experience with the practice of regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists. This consensus is based on comparison of real intervention to real markets rather than an ideological preconception. It is shown that economic theory can support all …
Future Directions in Postal Reform
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 2001
1690 kr
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This work brings together leading practitioners, world-wide postal administrations, and the courier industry, as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers, and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues …
Forecasting the Internet
Understanding the Explosive Growth of Data Communications
Av David G. Loomis, L.D. Taylor
Inbunden, 2001
1129 kr
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David O. Loomis Illinois State University The explosive growth of the Internet has caught most industry experts off guard. While data communications was expected to be the "wave of the future," few industry observers foresaw how rapid the change in focus from voice communications towards data would …
Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities
Av Michael A. Crew, Crew m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1129 kr
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This volume directly compares the practices of adversarial and inquisitorial systems of law from a psychological perspective. It aims at understanding why American and European continental systems differ so much, while both systems entertain much support in their communities. In the chapters it is …
Electricity Pricing in Transition
Inbunden, 2002
1690 kr
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This text has been written to address the issues facing utilities, retailers, regulators, and customers in the changing electricity market. It is organized into five sections. Section I deals with the restructured organization that has emerged from yesterday's vertically integrated, regulated …
Postal and Delivery Services
Pricing, Productivity, Regulation and Strategy
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1690 kr
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When Postmaster General Creswell penned his concern about the impact 2 of electronic diversion on his postal organization, the year was 1872. General Creswell, it turned out, fretted unnecessarily. Facsimile did not achieve commercial viability until roughly a century after his tenure as Postmaster …
New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implication for Telecommunications Economics
Av James J. Alleman, Eli M. Noam
Inbunden, 1999
1129 kr
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Randall B, Lowe Piper & Marbury, L.L.R The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years. Indeed, we are still wrestling today over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local ex change …
Current Directions in Postal Reform
Av Michael A. Crew, Conference on Postal and Delivery Econom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2250 kr
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Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery …
Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets
Inbunden, 2000
2250 kr
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Electricity markets are being deregulated or face new regulatory frameworks. In such changing markets, new pricing strategies will need to consider such factors as cost, value of service and pricing by objective. Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets introduces a new family of pricing …
Telecommunications Act of 1996: The “Costs” of Managed Competition
Av Dale E. Lehman, Dennis Weisman
Inbunden, 2000
1008 kr
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the …
Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries
Av Ed by Michael a Crew, Michael A. Crew
Inbunden, 2000
1129 kr
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This work reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This work should be of interest to …
Opening Networks to Competition
The Regulation and Pricing of Access
Av David Gabel, David F. Weiman
Inbunden, 1997
1129 kr
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This text addresses the related problems of regulating and pricing access in network industries. This text is divided into two parts. Part I assesses regulation and pricing access in network industries from an analytical and policy perspective. Part II presents a variety of case studies examining …
Deregulation of Electric Utilities
Inbunden, 1998
1690 kr
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This text reviews the main issues relating to the changing environment in the utility industry. Topics covered in depth include compensation for stranded costs, efficiency gains, institutional design, pricing, economics of scale, and network externalities. In addition, this book assesses early …
Atomic Energy Costing
Av Warren Young
Inbunden, 1998
1096 kr
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This text deals with atomic energy costing on three levels: patterns, parameters, and politicization. It provides an overview of some of the debates on the early pricing of atomic energy, and then goes on to examine economic costing and economic consequences. The issue of economic control of atomic …
Regulation Under Increasing Competition
Inbunden, 1998
1129 kr
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Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the telecommunications and electricity industries. This volume reviews such topics as competitive entry, stranded costs, pricing and market …
Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 1999
1690 kr
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Brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service …
Crisis in Telecommunications Carrier Liability
Historical Regulatory Flaws and Recommended Reform
Inbunden, 1999
568 kr
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My curiosity with the economic efficiency and social benefits of provisions used by telecommunications carriers to limit their liability to customers for damages arising from service interruptions and network outages is a longstanding one. It began with the changing state regulatory environments in …
Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis
Av David G. Loomis, Lester D. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1129 kr
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The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of tremendous market and regulatory changes. Its purpose is to educate the …
Price Level Regulation for Diversified Public Utilities
Av Jordan J. Hillman, Ronald Braeutigam
Inbunden, 1989
1129 kr
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Competition and the Regulation of Utilities
Inbunden, 1990
1690 kr
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companies to diversify may outweigh the costs of doing so, and that some traditional regulatory concerns may be excessively restrictive. The papers by Hillman, Harris, and Jang and Norsworthy, while all relating to individual industries, have lessons for other regulated industries. Hillman's paper, …
Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications
Inbunden, 1991
1690 kr
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Michael A. Einhorn In continuing to deregulate telecommunications companies, regulators have begun to consider alternative approaches to traditional cost-based price regulation as a means of encouraging monopoly efficiency, promulgating technological innova tion, protecting consumers, and reducing …
Regulatory Finance
Financial Foundations of Rate of Return Regulation
Inbunden, 1991
1690 kr
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This monograph is concerned with the determination of the allowed rate ofreturn in rate cases which, in part, determines the rates ofcharge to customers of public utilities. Rate of return determination has been a central topic in utility regulation for a century. Recent changes in the …
Competition and Innovation in Postal Services
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 1991
1690 kr
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Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office, …
Economic Innovations in Public Utility Regulation
Inbunden, 1992
1690 kr
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Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments effectively transfers an environmental property right, the difference in unrestricted emissions and the yearly endowment, 3 from certain fIrms to the public domain. Phase I is to reduce annual SOz emissions of 261 large (100 MW or more) utility generating …
Economics of Postal Service
A Research Study supported by WIK
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 1992
1129 kr
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Postal service has received considerably less attention in the economics literature than traditional public utilities. Postal service is facing some very important challenges arising out of the increasingly high-tech nature of postal service, the entry of competition into the business, and new …
Regulation and the Nature of Postal and Delivery Services
Av Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
Inbunden, 1992
1690 kr
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This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and Beyond' held at Village PTT, La Londe les Maures, France, on March 18, 1992. Leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the express delivery industry, as well as a …
Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities: Creating Differentiated Products
Av Shmuel S. Oren, Stephen A. Smith
Inbunden, 1993
1641 kr
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This book brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, the utility industry, private and public organizations and regulatory agencies to address various challenges and opportunities related to product differentiation in the electric power industry. The book's objectives are to: …
Regulatory Risk: Economic Principles and Applications to Natural Gas Pipelines and Other Industries
Av A. Lawrence Kolbe, William B. Tye m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1690 kr
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It is common to assert that utility investors are compensated in the allowed rate of return for the risk of large disallowances, such as arise for investments found imprudent or not `used and useful'. However, this book develops a new theory of asymmetric regulatory risk that shows that infallible …
Regulating Power
Economics of Electricity in the Information Age
Av Carl Pechman
Inbunden, 1993
878 kr
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Examines the economics of an industry that has become a critical component of modern life - the electric utility industry. The public nature of electricity has affected the development of the industry, both private and public. While this book focuses on private utilities, it recognizes the …
