In the paper we analyze how the possibility of revealing information to a competitor alters the entry … anticipates that there is a strategic advantage in choosing an initially small scale of entry: in this way it 'commits' itself to … to postpone entry into market. …

the context of the effect of entry on firm selection in a Cournot setting. It is found that inefficient firms are more …

, if the network effect is sufficiently strong, a quantity leader has an incentive to invite entry and license his … network externality and will invite entry. In markets with very strong network externalities, the leader pays a subsidy to the … invited followers. We also show that the results hold under uncertainty, and when the post-entry competition is Cournot. …

specifications, full incompatibility and preemption are again observed at the equilibrium. With incompatibility, entry deterrence …

The theoretical literature on industrial organization has been argued that firms hold excess capacity to deter entry … hold excess capacity not for entry deterrence but for getting higher benefit from other business strategy such as licensing …