levels, and that when differences in opportunity costs exit, they can be conveniently represented by fixed costs. Opportunity … the context of the effect of entry on firm selection in a Cournot setting. It is found that inefficient firms are more … induce the exit of low and high cost firms. …

‘liquidation’ for about 6,000 venture backed firms. We model these exit times using competing risks models. Biotech and internet …

This paper addresses the choice between different exit routes of venture capitalists for a project yielding a quality … effects on the optimal exit strategy and on the financial contract. Going public can be more profitable than a trade sale (i … if the entrepreneur enjoys private benefits from staying an independent manager in the firm after the exit of the venture …

In the paper we analyze how the possibility of revealing information to a competitor alters the entry … anticipates that there is a strategic advantage in choosing an initially small scale of entry: in this way it 'commits' itself to … to postpone entry into market. …

, if the network effect is sufficiently strong, a quantity leader has an incentive to invite entry and license his … network externality and will invite entry. In markets with very strong network externalities, the leader pays a subsidy to the … invited followers. We also show that the results hold under uncertainty, and when the post-entry competition is Cournot. …

specifications, full incompatibility and preemption are again observed at the equilibrium. With incompatibility, entry deterrence …

The theoretical literature on industrial organization has been argued that firms hold excess capacity to deter entry … hold excess capacity not for entry deterrence but for getting higher benefit from other business strategy such as licensing …