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Economics and Finance (R0)

Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz

Timothy J. Brennan

Leonardo Mazzoni

Victor Glass

Postal Strategies in a Digital and Green Transition

Universal Service, Challenges, and Innovations

&lt;p&gt;Section 1: The Foundations and Evolution of Universal Service Obligations (USO).- 1. Understanding &amp;lsquo;Universality&amp;rsquo; in Postal Regulations: Evolving Meaning and Impact (Mateusz&amp;nbsp;Chołodecki).- 2. Fit for Purpose? A Four-Step Methodology for Evaluating Universal Service Obligations in the&amp;nbsp;Postal Sector (Mindaugas Cerpickis, Jacob &amp;Oslash;stermann, Stephanie Tizik).- 3. Impact of Changes to the USO (Christian Strobel, George Houpis, and Hamish Forsyth).- 4. Could and Should Electronic Communication Help Meet Universal Service Obligations?&lt;br&gt;(Timothy Brennan).- 5. Entitlement to USO Compensation in the Light of the Recent Caselaw in the Transport Sector&amp;nbsp;(Alessandra Fratini).- Section 2: Economic and Financial Sustainability of Postal Services.- 6. Is it Time to Revisit the USPS's Strategy for Financial Sustainability? (Victor Glass and Stefano&lt;br&gt;Gori).- 7. Revisiting the Pricing Scheme in the Postal Sector: A Way to Make Postal Activities and USO&lt;br&gt;Financially Sustainable? (Claire Borsenbgerger and Denis Joram.- 8. USO Net Costs and Economies of Scope Between Letters and Parcels (Ramon Gm&amp;uuml;r, Felix&amp;nbsp;Gottschalk, Matthias Hafner, and Urs Trinker).- Section 3: Competition and Market Dynamics in the Postal and Parcel Sector.- 9. Economic Insights into the Competitive Dynamics in the Parcel Delivery Sector (Alexander Gaigl,&amp;nbsp;David Jevons, Leonardo Mautino, and Bernhard Enzi).- 10. The Last Mile in the New Digitalized Era and the Postal Sector as a Natural Monopoly&lt;br&gt;(Dandoulaki Panagiota).- 11. Assessing the Impact of Subcontractors on Postal Market Regulation (Talat G&amp;uuml;&amp;ccedil;l&amp;uuml;, Bet&amp;uuml;l Yilmaz, &amp;Ouml;zhan Zurel, Muhammed Can B&amp;uuml;y&amp;uuml;ktanir, and M&amp;uuml;berra Oğuz).- 12. The Evolution of the Parcel Segment After the Pandemic (Stijn Braes, &amp;Ouml;zhan Zurel, and Jerry Laurent).- 13. Exploring the Connections Between Postal Development and E-Commerce: A Global Perspective (Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz, Leonardo Mazzoni, and Pier Luigi Parcu).- 14. Can the International &amp;lsquo;Postal Service&amp;rsquo; Survive? (John Hearn). Section 4: Evolving Policy Approaches and Innovation in the Postal Sector.- 15. Exploring the Use of Systems Thinking to Describe and Assess the UK&amp;rsquo;s Postal Market, with an&amp;nbsp;Example for Its Application (Matthew R. Thomas and David Levitt).- 16. Leveraging Hackathons for Policy Innovation in the Postal Sector (Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz&amp;nbsp;and Jos&amp;eacute; Anson).- 17. Digital Commons and Postal Operators: An Exploratory Approach (Adrien Raizonville and&amp;nbsp;Daphn&amp;eacute; Lacroix).- Section 5: Sustainability, Green Transitions, and Environmental Considerations.- 18. The Digital and Green Twin Transition in the Postal Sector: Synergies and Strategies for a&amp;nbsp;Sustainable Future (Yaxuan Chen, Juan Moroni, Susan Alexander, and Sergey Dukelskiy).- 19. Unleashing the Environmental Postal User (Annelise Berendt).- 20. Second-Hand C2C E-Commerce: What Does the Era of the Individual Seller Mean for Logistics&amp;nbsp;Operators? (Anne Pratx).- Section 6: Analytical and Spatial Approaches to Postal Network Optimization.- 21. Assessing the USO Impact on the Network Density Using Spatial Analysis Techniques (Bruno&amp;nbsp;Basalisco, Mindaugas Cerpickis, Lionel Gendebien, and Jacob &amp;Oslash;stermann).- 22. Using a Simple Monte Carlo Simulation to Explore the Relationship Between Number of Stops&amp;nbsp;and Travel Distance (Robert Cohen, Michael Leibert, Matthew Robinson, and Samuel Robison).- 23. Optimizing Distribution Networks with Application to the U.S. Postal Service (Edward S. Pearsall).&lt;/p&gt;

Contributions to Finance and Accounting

This monograph explores the relationship between financial structure optimization decisions and business performance in an emergent economy. Focusing on Romanian motor parts and accessories wholesale companies, the book provides a data-driven examination of how capital structure influences profitability, return on equity, and financial stability, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty. Drawing on real-world financial data at the national level, the study evaluates the impact of different financing strategies and employs analytical tools such as the Regression Analysis based on the sector's data alongside industry-specific performance indicators to assess performance, leverage and financial profitability.Addressing key themes including financial decision-making under uncertainty, access to capital in emerging markets, and the influence of ownership structures on "long-term outcomes". This book offers valuable insights for academics, finance professionals, policymakers, and researchers. Its findings contribute to a deeper understanding of capital structure dynamics, financial profitability, and business performance within evolving market environments.Rodica Baciu 
 (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
 
 is a researcher and entrepreneur with over 25 years of leadership experience in the Romanian automotive sector. Her research interests include corporate finance, financial structure, and insolvency risk in the Romanian context.

This monograph explores the relationship between financial structure optimization decisions and business performance in an emergent economy. Focusing on Romanian motor parts and accessories wholesale companies, the book provides a data-driven examination of how capital structure influences profitability, return on equity, and financial stability, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty. Drawing on real-world financial data at the national level, the study evaluates the impact of different financing strategies and employs analytical tools such as the Regression Analysis based on the sector's data alongside industry-specific performance indicators to assess performance, leverage and financial profitability.Addressing key themes including financial decision-making under uncertainty, access to capital in emerging markets, and the influence of ownership structures on "long-term outcomes". This book offers valuable insights for academics, finance professionals, policymakers, and researchers. Its findings contribute to a deeper understanding of capital structure dynamics, financial profitability, and business performance within evolving market environments.

A Romanian Case Study

Capital Structure and Financial Performance

Platform Supply Chains in the AI Era

This open access book explores the ecosystem design, competition mechanism, and coordination mechanism of platform supply chain in eleven chapters based on theoretical modeling and numerical experiments. The main research methodologies in this book include game theory, data-driven optimization, mathematical programming and machine learning. In Chapter 1, this book introduces the background and characteristics of the platform supply chain and discusses the research frontiers on platform supply chain management. It presents the organization of the book and outlines the content and focus of this monograph. Next, this book explores the ecosystem design, competition mechanism, and coordination mechanism of platform supply chain from Chapter 2 to Chapter 12 based on theoretical modeling and numerical experiments. At last, this book summarizes the main research findings and contributions in Chapter 13. The intended readership of this book includes researchers, educators, graduates, and industry practitioners interested in platform supply chains. This book is suitable for those with a master's degree or above in operations management or management science.

System Design and Operations Coordination

Operations Management in Platform Supply Chain 1

Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

Aiming to identify the most effective tools and water governance innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation, this book examines some of the world's leading laboratories of non-urban water law and governance, evaluating the success of different governance forms, legal designs and institutional prescriptions.

Aiming to identify the most effective tools and water governance innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation, this book examines some of the world’s leading laboratories of non-urban water law and governance, evaluating the success of different governance forms, legal designs and institutional prescriptions.

Markets, Compliance and Technology

Next Generation Water Governance

The Future of Private Law

This open access book explores the relationship between consumer law and global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually rigorous, it analyses EU approaches to regulation and to consumer policy oriented to safety, sustainability and market regulation. In so doing, it throws the disconnect between GVCs and consumer law into sharp relief. In response, the author argues that GVCs are a plausible venue for reconsidering consumers as regulatory actors in the global economy. This would enable both consumer protection and EU's decentralised social ordering (based on private regulation) to be accommodated. Innovative and thought-provoking, this is an important contribution to debates on EU consumer law. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Rethinking Consumers in Global Production

Connecting Value Chains

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

This book presents the first historical study of how the Bank of England shaped the early development of international banking supervision during a period of profound economic and regulatory change. Drawing on extensive archival research across the Bank of England Archives, The UK National Archives, the Bank for International Settlements, and European and private‑sector collections, the book reconstructs the emergence of global supervisory cooperation from the 1970s through the late 1980s. The volume traces the evolution of prudential policy, the growth of macro‑prudential thinking, and the interplay between national sovereignty and the push for international coordination. It provides detailed examinations of the Bank of England’s supervisory practices, the formulation and revision of the UK Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987, the early Basel Committee negotiations, and the parallel development of European Community banking directives. Further chapters illuminate private-sector perspectives and offer a comparative analysis of supervisory systems in France, Germany, the United States, and Japan.Combining financial history, political economy, and the history of central banking, this study brings clarity to the origins of global banking supervision and demonstrates how British regulatory approaches influenced both European harmonisation and the Basel process. It will serve scholars of banking supervision, financial regulation, international monetary cooperation, and modern economic governance.

The Emergence of Global Supervisory Cooperation

The Bank of England and Basel Committee 1974–1989

A fascinating examination of how wellness influencers have shaped a booming global industry--and why we should take their cultural power seriously.Wellness influencers are powerful players in the health space, guiding what we eat, how we exercise, and even how we define well-being. Wellness insider Mariah L. Wellman examines how US social media influencers have transformed the industry by positioning themselves as relatable authorities, often rivaling actual health experts in reach while redefining who gets to claim health and vitality.In Search of Wellness offers the first in-depth analysis of the wellness influencer industry, explaining not only how it works but why it resonates so deeply. Drawing on interviews with popular influencers and nearly a decade of research on the wellness industry, Wellman shows how influencers blend personal narratives with expert knowledge to build trust and expand their authority, attracting followers from around the world. Timely and accessible, this book reveals how influencers are redefining wellness itself--and why so many of us are eager to follow their lead.

How Social Media Influencers Transformed an Industry

In Search of Wellness

Kooperationswerke Beck - Hart

The Article-by-Article-Commentary on the new EU Law on Artificial Intelligence
This volume provides a comprehensive article-by-article commentary on the new provisions of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). It contains chapters on, among other things, technical and ethical foundations, responsibility for AI as well as data protection aspects.

The Artificial Intelligence Act provides harmonised rules for the development, marketing and use of AI systems in the EU, including for the safety and fundamental rights of individuals. It thus has a direct legal and economic impact on business activities and the users of AI systems.
The authors describe in detail
which obligations are imposed on providers and commercial users of AI systems,
how such systems can be introduced and used in compliance with the law, and
what requirements are placed on the providers (e.g., developers of an AI application for robot-assisted surgery) and the users of such systems (e.g., the hospital using the AI application in surgery).

Additional content
Systematic presentation of the law of artificial intelligence in Switzerland
Additional chapters, among others, on technical and ethical foundations, on further regulatory frameworks, on the responsibility for AI and on aspects of data protection law

Potential readers
In-house counsels, companies, lawyers, market surveillance authorities, supervisory authorities, business and consumer associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, European institutions.

About the contributors
The book is edited by Prof. Dr. Janine Wendt, Chair of Civil Law and Corporate Law at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Prof. Dr. Domenik H. Wendt, LL.M., Chair of Civil Law, European Business Law and European Law at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. The authors are experts from academia and from legal as well as regulatory practice.

Article-by-Article Commentary

Artificial Intelligence Act

In a movement-defining book, the "godmother of the current moment of dissatisfaction with establishment politics" (The New York Times) tells the story of the rising anti-monopoly movement and charts a course to a democratic futureIn a short, sharp political book, The Nation magazine's "Anti-Monopolist" columnist and "a prophet of the resurgent left" (Franklin Foer) explains the battle between the forces of oligarchy and the rise of the new anti-monopoly movement. Using the stories of modern anti-monopoly heroes including Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan; grocer Anthony Pena, who turned his frustrations with big box stores into a new grocers movement; and Doha Mekki, a Sudanese immigrant who developed the first successful criminal wage-fixing case for the Department of Justice; Teachout explains how anti-monopoly cuts across traditional political lines and gives real teeth to economic populism. Teachout, a scholar of the law of democracy and a politician whose run for governor of New York State shocked the political establishment, argues that monopoly is the architecture of private tyranny, and that breaking corporate power is essential to building a new democracy. From AI to agriculture, healthcare to energy, Americans understand that corporate concentration doesn't just cause inequality; it organizes power. Anti-Monopoly gives that feeling a name, a history, and a way forward. After a spate of books out of the Abundance movement arguing that we need to remove local democracy and focus on efficiency at scale, this book provides a sharp counterpoint.

A Citizen’s Guide

Anti-Monopoly

Economic Security in European Law and Policy

This book is intended to open up the new Springer book series on Economic Security in European Law and Policy. It collects contributions that resulted from the first two conferences on economic security and market regulation organized by the editors. Like the conferences themselves, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of different aspects around economic security policy in Europe. The authorship is diverse, ranging from academics to practitioners and also political representatives. By this, the volume offers wide ranging views. The contributions consist of academic articles as well as shorter essays, making the volume accessible not only to academics but also to a wider readership.

Strengthening EU Economic Security

“Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent.”-Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About LoveFrom the acclaimed Vogue writer and author of Notes on Heartbreak comes a decade-defining romcom: a funny, sweet, and subversive debut novel, reminiscent of Dolly Alderton and Monica Heisey, about two women, tired of the London dating scene, who decide to transform their most annoying male friend into the perfect man.When twenty-six-year-old Daisy wakes up next to James Stanley, she can’t believe what she’s done. She slept with James. The most boorish boy she knows. The black sheep of their friendship group. Someone who once told her that he’d never cried in his entire life—and sounded proud of it.But sleeping with James is a casualty of a Much Larger Problem—there is not a decent, single man to be found in London. At least, that’s what Daisy and her best friend Maya think. All the good ones are taken. Even the average, not-so-good men have beautiful, educated, and accomplished girlfriends with perfect hip-to-waist ratios. Where have all the good men gone?Fed up with the dating scene, Daisy and Maya decide to stop waiting and take matters into their own hands with “The Project.” Their goal? To build the perfect, eligible match out of some of the most lackluster, raw material. And who better to start with than their embarrassingly uncivilized (yet frustratingly attractive) friend, James?Embarking on a series of social and cultural lessons—from art exhibitions to feminist book clubs, designer clothing stores to house parties—Daisy and Maya chaperone James on a journey of discovery.But which of them will change more?

“Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent.”―Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About LoveFrom the acclaimed Vogue writer and author of Notes on Heartbreak comes a decade-defining romcom: a funny, sweet, and subversive debut novel, reminiscent of Dolly Alderton and Monica Heisey, about two women, tired of the London dating scene, who decide to transform their most annoying male friend into the perfect man.When twenty-six-year-old Daisy wakes up next to James Stanley, she can’t believe what she’s done. She slept with James. The most boorish boy she knows. The black sheep of their friendship group. Someone who once told her that he’d never cried in his entire life—and sounded proud of it.But sleeping with James is a casualty of a Much Larger Problem—there is not a decent, single man to be found in London. At least, that’s what Daisy and her best friend Maya think. All the good ones are taken. Even the average, not-so-good men have beautiful, educated, and accomplished girlfriends with perfect hip-to-waist ratios. Where have all the good men gone?Fed up with the dating scene, Daisy and Maya decide to stop waiting and take matters into their own hands with “The Project.” Their goal? To build the perfect, eligible match out of some of the most lackluster, raw material. And who better to start with than their embarrassingly uncivilized (yet frustratingly attractive) friend, James?Embarking on a series of social and cultural lessons—from art exhibitions to feminist book clubs, designer clothing stores to house parties—Daisy and Maya chaperone James on a journey of discovery.But which of them will change more?

A Novel

The Project

Postal Strategies in a Digital and Green Transition

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