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

Helmut M. Dietl; Andreas Grütter; Martin Lutzenberger; Cátia Felisberto; Matthias Finger

doi:10.1007/BF03399248

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

Helmut M. Dietl^*
, Andreas Grütter
, Martin Lutzenberger
, Cátia Felisberto
, Matthias Finger

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-55
Number of pages	19
Journal	Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Volume	144
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399248
Publication status	Published - Jan 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

L51
L87
end-to-end competition
entry regulation
mail industry
process innovation
work-sharing

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