regarded as a problem. Individual strategies of action are dominated by exit-options, put into practice as change of employer … or exit from the occupational field. Forms of collective action, named as ‘voice’, are hardly used. One has to cope …

exit. We adopt a natural experiment approach to analyze the impact of a tightening of Swiss antitrust legislation on exit … probabilities. Based on a sample of more than 68,000 firms from all major sectors of the Swiss economy, we find that the exit … probability of non-exporting firms increased significantly, whereas the exit probability of exporting firms remained largely …

capital) so that in the mainly mature low entry-barrier markets they were entering they were at a disadvantage from the outset … from business start-up to eventual exit. Practical implications – The insights gained have practical implications for start …

upon the entry of a competitor. As a result, intensified competition may lead to more dispersed prices as well as higher …

This paper models investment/entry decisions in a competitive industry that is subject to a quantity control, either on …

number of alternative markets available for entry rises, the incumbents' incentive to use debt as a deterrent falls. Thus, a …

profitability in the long run. The labor market is imperfectly competitive. I show that inefficient levels of firm entry will … generally exist. Whether under or over entry occurs is tightly related to the bargaining power of labor, but the logic behind my …

Under asymmetric information, entry-deterring strategies by an incumbent monopolist can consist of deviations from its … pricing. Our analysis shows that the mode of post-entry competition influences the range of situations in which an incumbent …

In this paper, we consider an incumbent firm facing potential entry in a vertical differentiation model a la Mussa and … incentive to adopt a multi-product strategy in order to face entry, in a natural duopoly case. It turns out that this strategy …