subsequent entry plays a primary role in generating turbulence in high growth markets, while displacement of incumbents by recent … entrants is the main selection force in declining markets. As product life cycles progress, trial-and-error entry subsides, and …

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market … stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs for small and large stores are 10 and 18 percent lower, respectively …, in markets with liberal compared with restrictive regulations. Counterfactual simulations show that lower entry costs in …

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

decomposition is shown in a model featuring heterogeneous multiproduct firms, oligopolistic competition and free firm entry. When … firm-level productivity decreases while the dispersion rises up, firm product scope decreases and sums up to a lower number …

We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 … manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper … competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the industries with a naturally high entry rate. Rigid entry regulations are …