We investigate the timing and the valuation of strategic investment aimed at enhancing entry opportunities in related … market segments. As demand is uncertain, entry options should be exercised at the optimal time, trading off the market share … gain against the option to wait until more information is revealed, while anticipating competitors' entry behaviour. When …

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

determination of the number of producers and products over the business cycle. Economic expansions induce higher entry rates by … prospective entrants subject to irreversible investment costs. The sluggish response of the number of producers (due to sunk entry … decisions, producer entry, and the allocation of labor across sectors. The model performs at least as well as the benchmark real …

-returns-to-scale technologies. When providers adopt a not-for-profit mission, the absence of a residual claimant can impede entry, pro- tecting the … core costs can have a non-neutral effect on entry, technology adoption, and industry performance. …

is more conducive to entry - precisely because of its inefficiency - it usually generates higher expected revenue. We … also discuss the effects of lock-ups, matching rights, break-up fees (as in takeover battles), entry subsidies, etc. …

We compare the economic consequences and political feasibility of reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry … (deregulation) and improving contractual enforcement (legal reform). Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of … constraints on entry, but in addition it facilitates transfers of control of incumbent firms, from untalented to talented managers …

market with horizontal product differentiation when choosing its level of roll-out. The endogenous extent of entry influences … downstream retail prices; Bertrand or local monopoly pricing or a mixed strategy equilibrium may emerge. Importantly, entry may …

events were almost certainly caused by the entry and market penetration of (largely) foreign owned car producers, this … stylized fact raises interesting questions about whether – and if so, how advertising affects entry. We use a model of consumer … arguing that advertising can facilitate entry, but only for finite periods of time. …