CRRI 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics
Dublin, Ireland
29 May 2013- 01 June 2013
Hosted By: the Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) at Rutgers University
At a time of significant change in the postal industry, experts from around the world came together in Dublin on 29 May - 1 June 2013 for the annual postal and delivery economics conference hosted by the Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) at Rutgers University. Sessions covered a wide range of topics, including the cost and financing of universal service, innovation in the industry, the growth of the parcels market, pricing, and the efficiency of postal operators.
As part of the conference, NERA Consultant Helen Smith presented a paper on access pricing challenges in postal markets. The paper explains why postal regulators face a unique set of challenges in regulating access prices, and discusses whether there is anything that regulators can learn from experiences in other industries, including water and telecommunications. In addition, Associate Director Stuart Holder acted as a discussant in a session on the universal service obligation (USO), which included papers on applying a cost-benefit approach to specifying the USO in the UK, and alternative USO financing mechanisms for the US postal market.
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