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

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 …

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 …

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

) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit with store-type differentiation to evaluate how entry regulations … demand, recover variable profits, and estimate entry costs and fixed costs by store type. Counterfactual policy experiments … show that welfare increases when competition is enhanced by lower entry costs. Protecting small stores by imposing …

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger … evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of … dominated mergers. Interestingly, we also find that mergers foreclose potential entry in other product markets and reduce the …

by both high entry and high exit rates. …

We develop a model in which ex ante identical firms make endogenous entry and technology adoption decisions. We show … that this model is capable of matching the stylized facts in which entry and adoption are dispersed over time and that, in … occur and show that leapfrogging can induce reverse preemption (i.e., forward-looking incumbent firms delaying entry and …