We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

We develop a model in which ex ante identical firms make endogenous entry and technology adoption decisions. We show … that this model is capable of matching the stylized facts in which entry and adoption are dispersed over time and that, in … occur and show that leapfrogging can induce reverse preemption (i.e., forward-looking incumbent firms delaying entry and …

clauses limit the incentives to face-to-face competition and determine segmentation and monopoly pricing even when entry of … new competitors occurs. The development of wholesale trade, instead, may induce generalized entry and retail competition …

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

time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …

effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successful new businesses. Drawing from … entry of small firms and in sectors that are more dependent upon external finance. This finding is robust to controlling for … other potential entry barriers (labor market regulations and entry regulations). On the other hand, financial development …

enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …