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 …

incumbents but acts as a strong deterrent against entry. Product variety is determined by the degree of spatial contestability of … entry deterring effect of discriminatory pricing is dominant whatever the degree of spatial contestability or the nature of …, the more effective is discriminatory pricing at limiting entry and the more likely is it that mill pricing is socially …

the higher toughness of the market, the entry of big firms leads them to sell more through a market expansion effect … oligopolistic firms because the procompetitive effect associated with the entry of a big firm dominates the resulting decrease in …

We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased … product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased …

This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for varying degrees of … product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the …