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

, it later “tips” to monopoly, after which entry is hard, often even too hard given incompatibility. And while switching … costs can encourage small-scale entry, they discourage sellers from raiding one another's existing customers, and so also … discourage more aggressive entry. Because of these competitive effects, even inefficient incompatible competition is often more …

We study a dynamic model with an incumbent monopolist and entry in every subsequent period. We first show that if all …

fact that the new company will cover not above 40% of the market; meaning that potential entry and facilities based … competiton will produce a market with companies of different sizes. We also find that the entry policy with asymmetric access … paid by consumers because prices increase in equilibrium. In terms of efficiency the assisted entry produce welfare loss …

We analyze firms' entry, production and hedging decisions under imperfect competition. We consider an oligopoly … industry producing a homogeneous output in which risk-averse firms face an entry cost upon entering the industry, and then … literature (without entry), both production and output price depend on uncertainty and risk aversion. Specifically, when entry is …

sufficiently high, license without entry strategy is optimum; if the low quality good’s quality is low, both of entry without … license strategy and license without entry strategy are optimum; when cost functions are quadratic, if the high quality good …’s quality is high, license without entry strategy is optimum; if the high quality good’s quality is low, entry with license …