Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz

European University Institute | EUI · Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

The chapter discusses universal service as a source of potential business opportunities for postal operators. Starting from the assumption that the postal sector could contribute to the human-centric digitalization promoted by the European Union (EU), while, at the same time, digitalization could offer promising business opportunities for the diver...

With continuously growing e-commerce with its increased demand for fast delivery, various e-commerce players have decided to enter this market to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of the service. Vertically integrated digital marketplaces’ business models, however, raise the concerns of competition and regulatory authorities across the worl...

In recent years, the growth of e-commerce has fundamentally changed parcel markets. While most economic sectors in the global economy have suffered a severe downturn caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic has boosted the growth of e-commerce. This chapter concentrates on the relationship between the evolution of e-commerce and the re...

Adopting a comparative perspective, this article examines whether, in light of the ongoing changes in the postal markets, incumbent postal operators are likely to keep dominating the industry, and whether new entrants’ strategies are more likely to succeed nationally or in niche segments. It will also contribute to the lively debate as to whether a...

Third-party access is one of the key tools used by regulators to stimulate competition in network industries. However, in the postal sector, incumbent operators could refuse to provide access to their networks on competitive terms. As the experience from the electronic communications sectors shows, constructive refusals to deal, caused by unreasona...

Margin squeeze is a form of abuse of a dominant position in which a vertically integrated company reduces the margin between the price charged to competitors and the price charged to consumers, which can have the effect of excluding a competitor from the market. In the decade or so since the liberalisation of network industries, margin squeeze has...

Nominally, competition policy is just as concerned with quality as it is with prices. But in practice, courts and competition authorities rarely analyze quality effects as rigorously as they analyze price effects. We begin this paper by examining some of the reasons why that is so. We then delve into some definitional questions associated with qual...