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 …

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 …

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …

, 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. …

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 …

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 …