Issues in Measuring Incremental Cost in a Multi-Function Enterprise

Bradley, Michael; Colvin, Jeff; Panzar, John C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-6321-1_1

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“…There is extensive literature dealing with major theoretical and practical aspects of cost accounting (Crew and Kleindorfer, 2000), (Bradley, 1997), (Bradley,1993), (Bozzo, 2006) (Awerbuch and Preston, 2000), , (M. Roberts, 2006).…”

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Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products

O’Brien¹,

Pintsov²,

Obrea³

2009

Progress in the Competitive Agenda in the Postal and Delivery Sector

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Pitney Bowes Inc) i "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts".-Attributed to Albert Einstein i The paper expresses views and ideas of the authors that are not necessarily those of their employers CPC and Pitney Bowes Inc. The authors are grateful to Ted Kwiatkowski (CPC) for many useful comments and suggestions. ii In fact the distinction between mail item and mail product is frequently so convoluted that it is hard to say what is what. We believe that we have provided a conceptually clear distinction (Pintsov and Obrea, 2008) where we have stated that a mail item had specific values of its intrinsic measurable attributes (dimension, weight etc.) while postal product description contained acceptable ranges for all explicitly specified attributes of mail items.

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Section: Cost Accounting and Postal Product Innovationmentioning

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Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products

O’Brien¹,

Pintsov²,

Obrea³

2009

Progress in the Competitive Agenda in the Postal and Delivery Sector

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“…Supporters of a full deregulation (end-to-end competition) promote a scenario where new competitors are fully independent of the incumbent postal operator and collect, sort, transport, and deliver their mail themselves. However, 1 In addition to the empirical literature referenced above, see also Bradley, Colvin and Panzar (1997) for its discussion of how the possibility of outsourcing helps with the interpretation of some empirical findings. 2 As of April 1, 2006, the Swiss government lowered the weight for letters reserved exclusively to the incumbent to at most 100 grams (Postverordnung, 2006).…”

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The Effect of Entry Regulation on Process Innovation in the Swiss Mail Industry

Dietl

Grütter

Lutzenberger

et al. 2008

Swiss J Economics Statistics

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Summary We develop an industry specific model of price competition with product differentiation to analyze the effect of entry regulation on process innovation in the Swiss mail industry. We consider the four most prominent scenarios: Regulated monopoly, end-to-end competition, worksharing without bypass, and work-sharing with bypass. Based on model calibration with data from the Swiss letter market, we find that the incentives to invest in process innovations decrease with deregulation. However, even accounting for this fact, the efficiency gains of a partial liberalization, i.e. worksharing, ensure an increase in social welfare.

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“…5 5 See for example, McRae (1970) and Bradley et al (1997). The issues involved in the problem of allocating joint costs are well understood (both in theory and in practice).…”

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Footloose Monopolies: Regulating a “National Champion”

Calzolari¹,

Scarpa²

2009

Economics Manag Strategy

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We analyze the design of optimal regulation of a domestic monopolist that also competes in an unregulated foreign market. We show how foreign activities affect regulation, consumers' surplus, national welfare, and firm's profits. Although expansion in unregulated foreign markets amplifies the distortions that are caused by the regulator's limited information, we also show that allowing the firm to compete abroad does not necessarily harm domestic consumers. We analyze if and when the firm's decision to expand abroad coincides with national interests.

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Issues in Measuring Incremental Cost in a Multi-Function Enterprise

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products

Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products

The Effect of Entry Regulation on Process Innovation in the Swiss Mail Industry

Footloose Monopolies: Regulating a “National Champion”

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