Universal Service Obligation and Loyalty Effects: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
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Keywords
agent-based modelling; liberalisation of the postal markets; postal sector; Universal Service Obligation (USO); USO provider;All these keywords.
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- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2013-07-28 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-COM-2013-07-28 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-REG-2013-07-28 (Regulation)
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