On Setting Prices and Testing Cross-Subsidy with Accounting Data

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-100

  Bradley, Michael D ^a   Colvin, Jeff ^b   Panzar, John C ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Postal Service   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033415204     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008187831550     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Baron, David P. 1991. "Information, Incentives, and Commitment in Regulatory Mechanisms: Regulatory Innovation in Telecommunications." In Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications, edited by Michael Einhorn. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston).
2. Baumol, Willliam J. 1987. Testimony before the Postal Rate Commission. Docket No. R87-1.
3. Baumol, Willliam J., John C. Panzar, and Robert D. Willig. 1988. Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich (Revised Edition).
4. Bradley, Michael, D. and Jeffrey Colvin. 1995. "An Econometric Model of Postal Delivery." In Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives, edited. by M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
5. Bradley, Michael; Jeffrey Colvin; and Marc Smith. 1993. "Measuring Product Costs for Ratemaking: The United States Postal Service." In Regulation and the Nature of Postal and Delivery Services, edited by M.A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
6. Bradley, Michael D. and Alan R. Robinson. 1988. "Determining the Marginal Cost of Purchased Transportation." Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. 30(1): 21-32.
7. Buchanan, James, 1969, Cost and Choice. Chicago: Markham Publishing Company.
8. California Public Utilities Commission. 1990. AT&T Communications of California, Inc., 38 CPUC. 2d 126: 134-37.
9. European Commission. 1992. Green Paper On the Development of the Single Market for Postal Services. COM (91). Brussels.
10. Faulhaber, Gerald R. 1975. "Cross Subsidization: Pricing in Public Enterprises." American Economic Review 65:966-77.
11. Federal Communications Commission. 1976. American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Bell System Companies, Charges for Interstate and Foreign Commercial Service, Docket No. 16258, 18 F.C.C. 2d 761: 763-764.
12. Federal Communications Commission. 1989. American Telephone and Telegraph Company Long Lines Dept., Revision of Tariff FCC No. 260 Private Line Service., Series 5000 (TELPAK), Mem. Op. & Order. Docket No. 18128, 61 F.C.C. 2d 587: 6270-83.
13. Hillman, Jordan and Ronald Breautigam. 1989. Price Level Regulation for Diversified Public Utilities: An Assessment. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
14. Michigan Public Service Commission. 1994. A Methodology to Determine Long Run Incremental Cost., Docket No. U-10620, 156 PUR 4th: 1-17.
15. Ministry of Commerce of New Zealand. 1995. "Regulation of Access to Vertically-Integrated Natural Monopolies." manuscript, Wellington, New Zealand.
16. OFTEL. 1995. "Effective Competition: Framework for Action. A Statement on the Future of Interconnection, Competition and Related Issues." manucript. London.
17. Public Utility Commission of Texas. 1996. Rules of the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Section 23.9I: Long Run Incremental Cost Methodology for Dominant Certificated Telecommunications Utility (DCTU) Services.
18. United States Postal Rate Commission. 1988. Opinion and Recommended Decision. Docket No. R87-1. Section 4034, page 369.
19. United States Congress. 1970. Postal Reorganization Act. Section 3622 (b) (3).
20. United States House of Representatives, 1977, Postal Reform Act of 1997, H.R. 22.