This article deals with the issue of entry into an industry where firms share a collective reputation. First, we show … that free entry is not socially optimal; there is a need for regulation through the imposition of a minimum quality … wisdom, a minimum quality standard should not always be considered as a barrier to entry …

may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an …

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit … evidence of a positive effect of entry. Assortative selection of interaction partners seems to play a minor role in our setting …

competitor. We show that this mechanism is welfare improving but it generates inefficient entry. That is a more efficient …

by both high entry and high exit rates. …

different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger … evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of … dominated mergers. Interestingly, we also find that mergers foreclose potential entry in other product markets and reduce the …

) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations … demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry costs and fixed costs by store type. Counterfactual policy experiments … show that welfare increases when competition is enhanced by lower entry costs. Protecting small stores by imposing …