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 financing of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) in network industries has traditionally relied on granting the provider exclusive rights. Full liberalization has created the need for alternative funding mechanisms. This has increased the interest of regulators and the public in...

"Service public: Weniger Staat - mehr privat" - so lautet der Titel der neusten Publikation des liechtensteinischen Think Tanks "Zukunft.li". Swiss Economics hat die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für diese Publikation erarbeitet. Sie liefert in einem ersten Teil die theoretsichen Grundlagen zu...