We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting more than 700 … entries over five years in an event study design, we find that entry causes a persistent first-order stochastic shift in the … to 12% of stations’ gross margins. Consumers with easy access to information on prices gain the most from entry. The …

This paper investigates the effects of mergers, entry, and exit in retail markets when input prices are negotiated …

This paper studies the impact of entry of non-banks (termed Independent Service Operators, ISOs) into ATM markets. We … charges consumers directly. We find that due to the entry of an ISO the size of the total ATM network increases independent of … consumers directly. Consumers may not benefit from the entry of the ISO. If a regulator can control the interchange fee, entry …

This paper revisits the optimal entry decision in a differentiated product market where customer demand is price …-sensitive and depends on a per-unit transport cost. We show that too few firms may enter for high entry cost and high transport cost …

not "too" convex. As in the case of unit demand, the number of firms under free entry decreases in the fixed cost of entry … optimal level. Insufficient entry occurs when the fixed and transportation costs are high. -- Spatial Models ; Price …-Dependent Demand ; Horizontal Product Differentiation ; Demand Elasticity ; Excess Entry Theorem …