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This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Understanding the development of chainstores is important given the large GDP share of services and the continuing importance of chains in bringing these services to market. Service chains provide a puzzle because they take a long time to develop even when there are obvious expansion...
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market with horizontal product differentiation when choosing its level of roll-out. The endogenous extent of entry influences … downstream retail prices; Bertrand or local monopoly pricing or a mixed strategy equilibrium may emerge. Importantly, entry may …
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events were almost certainly caused by the entry and market penetration of (largely) foreign owned car producers, this … stylized fact raises interesting questions about whether – and if so, how advertising affects entry. We use a model of consumer … arguing that advertising can facilitate entry, but only for finite periods of time. …
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the long run. The labor market is imperfectly competitive. I show that inefficient levels of firm entry will generally … exist. Whether under or over entry occurs is tightly related to the bargaining power of labor, but the logic behind my …
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We analyze the effect of industrial espionage on entry deterrence. We consider a monopoly incumbent who may expand … capacity to deter entry, and a potential entrant who owns an Intelligence System. The Intelligence System (IS) generates a …
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In industries with network effects, incumbents' installed bases create barriers to entry that discourage entrepreneurs … from developing new innovations. Yet, entry is not the only commercialization route for entrepreneurs. We show that the … not necessarily restrict the innovation incentives and that network effects promote acquisitions over entry. …
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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … there is heterogeneity across industries - incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to entry, but … not in laggard industries. To explain this pattern, we introduce entry into a Schumpeterian growth model with multiple …
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In industries with network effects, incumbents’ installed bases create barriers to entry that discourage entrepreneurs … from developing new innovations. Yet, entry is not the only commercialization route for entrepreneurs. We show that the … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the …
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