and workers and consumers on the other side. In case of threat of market entry, the public (private) monopolist may … the EB agenda as a strategic tool to deter entry, while an incumbent private company can use it. An opposite result holds … when EB is the established practice in the industry: the incumbent public company can use RTM to deter entry, while the …

This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …

of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit …. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic …

This chapter estimates sustainable coverage and competitive effects of entry for Swiss newspaper sellers which sell … composite goods, including a range of other products such as food and near-food items. It utilises the applied entry threshold …, single firm entry is sustainable in communes with a market size of over 482 people (leaving 310 Swiss communes without a …

organizational knowledge. Indeed, in addition to expanding the range of products, entry can first create more competition, lower … formal may also have important effects on GDP growth. This chapter presents some stylized facts about firms' entry and exit … and business environment in Tunisia. Data used to analyze patterns of entry and exit in Tunisian manufacturing industries …

In this paper we present an experiment in which we test the effects of sequential entry on the stability of collusion … makes collusion harder to sustain. In this study, we explore to what extent collusion can be upheld with exogenous entry … prior to entry. We find that collusion is indeed easier to sustain in the latter case than in groups starting large. We …

The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …

industrial licensing system and thereby allowing free entry to and exit from the industry of firms in 1991 followed by the WTO … present paper attempts to provide a unified approach to examine the inter-relationships between entry and competitiveness … decade in terms of entry and competitiveness. An overall decline in concentration is witnessed between the two end points …