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 …

-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find … in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

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

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 …

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …

entry in this context. …

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 …