evidence. Without offsetting tax increases the legislation will plausibly reduce prices but significant entry into the industry …

We empirically quantify the welfare implications of bank entry in the United States between 2000 and 2008. We use a … market outcomes. We find no evidence for under- or over-entry. Compared with the socially efficient outcome, there is a mild … significantly improves welfare under free entry. …

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

, obtained through price control legislation and legislation that eases the entry of generic products into the market, has caused …

structure and price-sensitive linear deterministic demand. The entry stage is modeled as a simultaneous game, where the players … take the outcomes of the subsequent post-entry (Cournot) competition into account in making their entry decisions. We … always an equilibrium structure in pure strategies in the entry game. Finally, we examine the effects of vertical integration …

domestic entry in the form of spinoffs, and the availability of bank credit. <br>This thesis, for the most part, utilizes the …

of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit …. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic …