The decision to exit is examined for a cohort of over 12,000 plants established in 1976. Using a longitudinal data base … more employees during the start -up year are found to have a lower likelihood of exit than do smaller plants. Similarly …, establishnwnts which are independent are found to have a lower likelihood of exit within the following years than do newly created …

-profile of disease incidence or failure rate. Because these cases involve diseases with long latencies or involve products that … how the failure rate or the onset of the disease will change over time.This paper proposes such a model. The estimation … technique allows one to compute the 'excess risk' attributable to the hazard or product defect distinct from the natural causes …

This paper discusses work on computable models of entry into regulated markets. Cournot, Stackelberg and Fringe entry … desirability of entry. The simulation results illustrate that welfare optimal component pricing can be highly sensitive to model … component price) exists. In addition, the welfare desirability of entry is seen to be sensitive to the choice of welfare …

the growth of the firm and on rates of surviving entry. We find positive, large, and statistically significant clustering …

and the possibility of side payments. With incompatibility, entry deterrence occurs for sufficiently strong network …

nevertheless some clustering effects are negative. Entry into clusters of this industry is also examined and some sectors are found … to attract new entry while others are only attracted. …

either to deter or in response to entry. In this paper, I report on a study of the advertising practices of 843 medium …-sized and large UK-based firms. Nearly one-quarter of all the advertisers surveyed state that they attribute importance to entry … between the perceived importance of advertising as an entry-deterring tool and the intensity of advertising spending …