Possible topics: - Liberalization - Electronic competition to mail and express carriers labor economics - Service quality, reliability and pricing issues - Transition from monopoly to competition - Productivity issues - Financial viability and agency problems - Privatization, and...

The conference is part of the ECB-CFS research network on "Capital Markets and Financial Integration in Europe" (http://www.eu-financial-system.org) and of the RTN network on "Competition Policy in International Markets" co-ordinated by the CEPR (http://www.cepr.org/research/Networks/cpim/). Its...