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 …

, 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. …

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

vertical product differentiation and entry. Both firms face fixed set-up costs and quality-dependent costs of production, and … compete on quality and price. With identical quality-dependent costs, the incumbent will always deter entry if possible, i ….e. if fixed costs are high. Quality will be set at a level lower than the optimal quality set if entry was accommodated. If …

may trigger future entry and the collusive agreement is enforced by the most profitable 'grim trigger strategies …' available. It is shown that even in situations where perfect collusion can be sustained after entry, coping with a potential … entrant in a market which is growing over time may completely undermine any pre-entry collusive plans of the incumbent firms …

is more conducive to entry - precisely because of its inefficiency - it usually generates higher expected revenue. We … also discuss the effects of lock-ups, matching rights, break-up fees (as in takeover battles), entry subsidies, etc. …