of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit …. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic …

incentives for relatively low-cost firms to enter the market, and thus improves the efficiency of the entry process. The … among firms, the proportion of high-cost firms, the cost of restructuring, and entry costs for new firms. …

asymmetric firms, restructuring, and entry. We show how these welfare effects depend on the initial level of market development …, and restructuring and entry costs. The model generates an endogenous demand for infrastructure investment, and the … simulate the relative welfare effects of reducing transport, restructuring and entry costs, and we evaluate in each case the …

This is an entry produced for the Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz …