POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION

THE CONFLICT ABOUT PRESERVING SMALL RURAL POST OFFICES: DIFFERENCE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF PHARMACIES AND POST OFFICES Presented at Winton M. Blount Symposium on Postal History - November 3-4, 2006 ,Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. Robert H. Cohen (Independent Consultant), Matthew Robinson (Postal Rate Commission), Renee Sheehy (Office of the Inspector General , USPS), Tom Sharkey (Office of the Inspector General , USPS), John Waller (Postal Rate Commission), Spyros Xenakis (Postal Rate Commission)

U.S. Postal Services as composite goods with Hedonic Properties Published September 2006 by Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson, Spyros Xenakis

The Impact of Competitive Entry into the Swedish Postal Market Previous Version was presented at CRRI Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics May 31-June 3, 2006 Bellevue Palace, Bern Switzerland Robert Cohen - Independent Consultant; Per Jonsson - National Post and Telecom Agency, Sweden; Matthew Robinson - U.S. Postal Rate Commission; Sten Selander - National Post and Telecom Agency, Sweden; John Waller - U.S. Postal Rate Commission; Spyros Xenakis -U.S. Postal Rate Commission

The Role of Scale Economies in the Cost Behavior of Posts Robert H. Cohen. To be published in the Proceedings of Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste GmbH (WIK) 8th Köenigswinter Seminar on Regulating Postal Markets - Harmonised Versus Country Specific Approaches, February 16-18, 2004

Postal Regulation and Worksharing in the U.S Robert H. Cohen. December 15, 2004 To be published in the Proceedings of Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste GmbH (WIK) 8th Köenigswinter Seminar on Regulating Postal Markets - Harmonised Versus Country Specific Approaches, February 16-18, 2004.

Will Entrants into a Liberalized Delivery Market Attract Investors Robert H. Cohen. Presented June 2-5, 2004 at the Twelfth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Cork, Ireland. Published in Regulatory and Economic Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector, Eds. Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005).

The Cost of Universal Service in the U.S. and Its Impact on Competition Robert H. Cohen. October 17, 2003 Published in the Proceedings of Wissenschaftliches Institut fur Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste GmbH (WIK) 7th Köenigswinter Seminar on Contestability and Barriers to Entry in Postal Markets, November 17-19, 2002. An early version of this paper was presented at The Future of Universal Postal Service in the United States, The Brookings Institution, June 18, 2002.

An Empirical Analysis of the Graveyard Spiral Robert H. Cohen. Presented June 4-7, 2003 at the Eleventh Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Toledo, Spain. Published in Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector, Eds. Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).

The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) The Independent National Regulatory Body for the UK Postal Sector

A Comparison of the Burden of Universal Service in Italy and the United States Robert H. Cohen. Presented June 6-9, 2001 at the Ninth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Sorrento, Italy. Published in Postal and Delivery Services: Pricing, Productivity, Regulation and Strategy, Eds. Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).