29th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, online 1-3 September 2021

The 29th Postal and Delivery Economics Conference will be held online.

All participants and authors are requested to pay a registration fee, except for a limited number of persons from approved sponsoring organisations or full-time faculty of colleges and universities selected for the programme.

Fees:

• Authors 700
• Participants 800

Requests for additional information on the Conference can be addressed to Chiara Carrozza at chiara.carrozza@eui.eu.

Conference papers might be selected for the edited volume that is published every year after the event to give visibility to the contributions presented. Authors of the papers selected for the programme will receive all the information on the prospects of publication in the volume once an agreement is reached with a publisher.

The Postal and Delivery Economics Conference is supported by public and private organisations. Please consider becoming a supporting organisation. Informal inquiries can be addressed to Prof Pier Luigi Parcu at Pierluigi.Parcu@eui.eu (please also add in cc Chiara Carrozza at chiara.carrozza@eui.eu).

CONFIRMED SUPPORTERS

PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE

• The Economic Implications of “Density-Based Rate Authority” – Timothy Brennan
• Demand Elasticities for Publishing Mail Traffic in The UK: Intensive and Extensive Margins – Frédérique Fève, Thierry Magnac, Jonathan Pope, Soterios Soteri
• “Is Postal Service a Natural Monopoly?” A 30-year retrospective on Panzar’s seminal paper – Victor Glass, Antonio Nicita, Stefano Gori
• The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the USPS’ Service Performance Scores over the Period 2011-2020 – Margaret M. Cigno, Curtis E. Kidd Telemaque, and Soiliou D. Namoro
• The first tests of the SGEI Framework in the postal sector: legal and economic takeaways from the judgements in the Česká pošta and Post Danmark cases – Alessandra Fratini, Marc Chovino
• Diversion Ratios in Postal Retail Networks – Matthias Hafner, Lory Iunius, Urs Trinkner
• Costs Allocation and Cooperative Game Theory – Lea Munich
• Terminal Dues and the UPU’s Third Extraordinary Congress – James I. Campbell
• E-commerce, parcel delivery and environmental policy – Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram
• The rise of e-commerce platforms in the parcel delivery markets – Pier Luigi Parcu, Niccolò Innocenti, Chiara Carrozza, Anna Pisarkiewicz
• The effects of the Covid-19 crisis on postal markets – Antonin Arlandis, Catherine Cazals, Eric Gautier, Marine Lefort, Simon Michel
• The Response to Extensions of Vote-by-Mail and Early In-person Voting in the 2020 U.S. General Election – Margaret M. Cigno, Ruth Y. Goldway and Edward S. Pearsall
• Addicted to Speed but at What Cost? Using a Smart City Approach to Address Last-Mile Logistics Challenges in Dense Urban Environments – V. Ian Stanford, Adam C. Houck, Brendan T. Sullivan, Alix H. Welch
• Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box: How The U.S. Postal Service Could Reduce Waste, Expand Its Market Share And Generate New Revenue By Introducing Reusable Containers – Katalin Clendenin
• Digital exclusion and the role of Posts have to play to fight against it – Claire Borsenberger, Hélène Delahaye and Muriel Barnéoud
• Assessing users’ needs in post – Lucy Eyre
• Universal service vs. targeted measures towards vulnerable people: how to address postal users’ needs? – Claire Borsenberger, and Marine Lefort
• The relevance of parcel lockers in sector policies – Ian Streule
• Parcel locker stations: The future of e-commerce delivery? – Antonia Niederprüm, Willem van Lienden
• Review of the EU regulatory framework for postal services – what can be learnt from the evolution of the EU telecommunications framework? – Annegret Groebel
• Access regimes in the European postal markets – Russo, Ghezzi, Romito and Gori
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the postal market. Challenges and opportunities for the postal regulatory framework – Mateusz Chołodecki
• Short and longer-term impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Postal Consumer Demands, Universal Service Providers and the wider postal sector – Philip Groves, Alex Mapletoft and Gianpiero Roscelli
• Covid-19 and Swiss Post: Volume developments and the economic value of postal service in the pandemic and beyond – Felix Gottschalk, Alexandra Lehmann
• Out-of-home delivery in Europe 2021: PUDO and parcel lockers – Gral, Rozycki, Anson
• Regulation. Quo Vadis? Revisited – John Hearn