We analysed how the universal postal service providers could employ their specificities to
achieve an advantage over the growing competition. The basic input for the model is expert …

A multiple-input and multiple-output model for measuring the cost efficiency of postal
delivery branches is proposed. We analyze the complete postal network of the Serbian post …

1.1 Service of General Economic Interest: A Rising Star in EU Law.................................. 2 1.1.
1 Dormant Period: From the Treaty of Rome 1957 to the Late 1980s................... 2 1.1. 2 A …

This study aimed to examine the extent to which the relationship between the government
and state-owned enterprise (SOE) hinders the achievement of the liberalization of universal …

The financing of universal service has traditionally relied on granting the universal service
provider a reserved area. Together with growing electronic substitution, current liberalization …

Universal service obligations impose specific costs on the universal service provider and the
latter may call for an appropriate compensation. Most often, a two-step procedure is put …

This article explores the complementary roles of price regulation and universal service
regulation in network industries. It analyzes compensation for the universal service provider …

Equity is often invoked as a possible justification for the imposition of universal service
obligations (USOs). However, no previous analysis supports a formal link between equity …

This paper discusses the net cost of universal service obligations and the potential burden
they represent on the universal service provider. Specifically, it analyzes the situation in the …

We provide an efficiency justification for the imposition of the uniform pricing constraint in
universal service obligations (USO), where USO are defined as a set of constraints imposed …