regional development. We find that reductions in trade costs and lowered entry barriers facilitate firm entry and intensify … exercises reveal that lowered business entry costs played a larger role than the reduction in trade costs in promoting the …

enter. The time required to prepare a bid is the most significant entry barrier. Moreover, tenders evaluated solely on the … lowest price, those involving cross-border participation, and higher expected competition reduce entry. Uncertainty over the … number of competitors deters entry as much as for certain facing high competition. …