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 …

determinants of route entry for both providers. Applying survival models, we find that both companies show an increased probability … increased entry probability independent of the presence of a competitor. …

) 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 …

taking account of both the entry process and the role of survival/failure in reshaping a given population of firms over time … due to the entry process and the presence of transient smaler firms. Indeed, whilst it is found that Gibrat' Law has to be …

-product firms. Aggregate product variety is determined by product variety choices of multi-product firms and entry/exit decisions of …

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market … stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs for small and large stores are 10 and 18 percent lower, respectively …, in markets with liberal compared with restrictive regulations. Counterfactual simulations show that lower entry costs in …

different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …