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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 …
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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 …
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We analyse a set of simple dynamic models where sellers are capacity constrained over the length of the model. Buyers act strategically in the market, knowing that their purchases may affect future prices. The model is examined when there are single and multiple buyers, with both linear and...
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We set up a duopoly model with dynamic capacity constraints under demand uncertainty. We endogenize the investment decisions of the firms, examine their intertemporal pricing behavior, their incentives to merge, as well as the welfare implications of a merger. Whereas under known and constant...
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We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn from the Census of Production. We examine the relative importance of 'internal' restructuring (such as new technology and organizational change) and 'external' restructuring...
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We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …
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, 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. …
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We propose a general model of monopolistic competition and derive a complete characterization of the market equilibrium based on an Arrow-Pratt measure of concavity of the utility, interpreted as the relative love for variety. When the relative love for variety increases with the consumption...
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Miscoordination of buyers might prevent entry in an industry with an incumbent and a more efficient potential entrant …. Buyers' power therefore favours entry by eliminating coordination problems. We also identify a mechanism which facilitates … entry: if the potential entrant could credibly offer to pay a penalty for unfulfilled orders, miscoordination would be …
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for a variety of market structures, including markets with and without barriers to entry and markets characterized by … degree of product substitutability, with or without free entry, increases R&D effort – provided that the total market for …
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