to technology adoption alone or in combination with barriers to entry of outsiders. Using a political economy model, we … find that a government provides barriers to both technology adoption and outsider entry. If governments are not too … "corrupt", restricting their ability to provide barriers to entry may eliminate barriers to adoption. However, for sufficiently …

combining the time needed to comply with government entry procedures in 45 countries with industry-level data on employment … takes less time to register new businesses have seen more entry in industries that experienced expansionary global demand … country–or group of countries with similar entry regulations–will in general yield biased results. JEL Classification: E6, F43 …

The paper presents a tractable empirical entry model that integrates strategic considerations and firms’ heterogeneity …. Individual entry decisions are derived from a profit function and are specified as the outcome of a discrete game among potential … form of the entry model is based on panel count data models, rendering a novel departure from previous works. The results …

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. …

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

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …

Miscoordination of buyers might prevent entry in an industry with an incumbent and a more efficient potential entrant …. Buyers' power therefore favours entry by eliminating coordination problems. We also identify a mechanism which facilitates … entry: if the potential entrant could credibly offer to pay a penalty for unfulfilled orders, miscoordination would be …

of survival of entrants in the market. We find that those who used to exit the market relatively soon are now staying 37 … encourage entry in government procurement auctions and thus increase competition. …