effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successful new businesses. Drawing from … entry of small firms and in sectors that are more dependent upon external finance. This finding is robust to controlling for … other potential entry barriers (labor market regulations and entry regulations). On the other hand, financial development …

enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

We investigate the timing and the valuation of strategic investment aimed at enhancing entry opportunities in related … market segments. As demand is uncertain, entry options should be exercised at the optimal time, trading off the market share … gain against the option to wait until more information is revealed, while anticipating competitors' entry behaviour. When …

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …

time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …

that entry and exit rates are positively correlated across industries. Our objective is to investigate the effect of sunk … costs and, in particular, market size on entry and exit rates. We analyse a stochastic dynamic model of a monopolistically … show existence and uniqueness of a stationary equilibrium with simultaneous entry and exit: efficient firms survive while …

, this being particularly relevant to de novo entrants as compared to entry by established firms. Current size is also found … differences, past growth matters for survival suggesting a partial adjustment process for firm size in the post entry period …. Finally, new plants are more likely to live longer if they enter growing industries or industries with little entry activity. …

be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …