Strategy and Pricing
You would like to align your business strategy with regulatory and technological change and make sure that your products correspond to your customers' needs. Our rigorous quantitative tools help you to better understand your company's positioning in the market:
Market simulation. Our quantitative models provide a framework for assessing future developments in your market.
Scenario analysis. With profound market knowledge in regulated industries, we identify and analyze relevant competitive scenarios.
Business wargaming. With an interactive strategic simulation, we support you in developing a common understanding of market dynamics and strategic opportunities.
Customer behaviour. We employ economic methods to investigate price elasticities, assess your customers' willingness to pay, and appraise the market potential of your products.
Pricing strategy. We support you in optimizing your price structure using game-theoretic methods to anticipate market reactions.
Contact
Dr. Urs Trinkner
Urs Trinkner is the Managing Director of Swiss Economics and Lecturer at the University of Zurich.
Publications
Reversion of hydropower concessions
Background study for the AWEL of the canton of Zurich
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Net Costs of Universal Service Provision: Challenges for the Coming Decade
Book chapter in "The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector" (2022). Parcu P., Brennan T., Glass V. (eds). Springer, Cham.
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How do firm and market characteristics affect airports' Beta risk?
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. 2020;21(3):297-312
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Funding the USO: Cross-Subsidization and Net Cost Balancing
Book chapter in "The Changing Postal Environment. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy." Parcu P., Brennan T., Glass V. (eds). Springer, Cham.
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The more economic approach to predatory pricing
Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Volume 14 (2), pp 292-310
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Mail Composition and Recipients Reaction to Direct Mail
In: The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector. Edited by M. Crew, P.L. Parcu and T. Brennan, Springer, pp 271-28
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Postal Strategies in a Digital Age
In: The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World. Edited by M. Crew and T. Brennan, Springer, Chapter 8
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Price Regulation and the Financing of Universal Services in Network Industries
Review of Law and Economics 9(1), pp. 125-150
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International Parcels - Review of Inward Land Rates
Study for the Universal Postal Union
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Practical approaches to USO costing and financing
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 12(2), 108-129
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The interaction between universal service costing and financing in the postal sector: a calibrated approach
Journal of Regulatory Economics 39(1), 89-110
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Economics of Post Office Networks: Strategic Issues and the Impact on Mail Demand
In: Handbook of Worldwide Postal Reform, M. A. Crew, P. R. Kleindorfer und J. I. Campbell Jr. (Hrsg.), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 80-97
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Pricing in Competitive Two-sided Mail Markets
In: Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, Michael A. Crew und Paul R. Kleindorfer (Hrsg.), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 136-149
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