entry of new firms and the failure rates (exit) of existing firms. The data used in the study are counts of business … establishments currently operating by county and type of business. Backing out the entry and exit rates from the establishment count … imposed real costs on retail stores, encouraging exit. However, the exit of incumbents was partially offset by new entrants …

This paper analyses plant entry, total factor productivity growth, average productivity level differentials and … plant cohorts as well as across sub-markets within petrochemicals. Entry flows were steady increasing within plastics … that entrants adopted competitive post-entry strategies. Total factor productivity growth decomposition shows that the …

firms indifferent between alternative entry and exit decisions. Their investment levels after entry reflects their length of … industry structrure (product life cycle) and changes in size and age distribution of firms over time. We explain why entry may …, may enter or exit the industry at any point of time and active firms undertake investment which reduces their future cost …

models into a unique one that point identifies the parameters of interest. We allow for a more flexible model of entry …. We might observe the wide dispersion because demand for airline travel is non-linear; because entry costs depend on the … network airlines strategically accommodate the entry of smaller carriers. We use our new econometric method to investigate the …

charges may make the firms collude on high prices. Moreover, when allowing for entry, we show that incumbents can profitably …