In industries with network effects, incumbents’ installed bases create barriers to entry that discourage entrepreneurs … from developing new innovations. Yet, entry is not the only commercialization route for entrepreneurs. We show that the … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the …

The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably … competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an entry model to study the direct impact of the regulations on the … representative for many other countries with geographic entry restrictions. We find that the entry decisions of pharmacies and …

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. …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … there is heterogeneity across industries - incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to entry, but … not in laggard industries. To explain this pattern, we introduce entry into a Schumpeterian growth model with multiple …