entry deterrence

entry deterrence

strategies pursued by firms in a market to deter MARKET ENTRY by potential competitors. Entry deterrence strategies could focus on creating high entry costs by acquiring patents for products and processes; intensive advertising to create brand loyalty; and lowering costs. Entry deterrence strategies could also focus upon heightening entrant's expectations about the intensity of post-entry pricing by LIMIT PRICING or maintaining excess capacity Such entry deterrence strategies serve to heighten BARRIERS TO ENTRY and limit COMPETITION.
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Using a simple two-period model of strategic entry deterrence, Poddar (2003) showed that Dixit's result may not always remain true if demand is not deterministic.
Entry and Exit Decisions with Switching Regime Excess Capacity
Therefore, the main objective of our paper is to use a structural econometric model to investigate: (1) whether codesharing between airlines in domestic air travel markets, a form of strategic alliance, has a deterrent effect on the entry of potential competitors; (2) whether there is a particular type of codesharing among alliance partners that is most effective at deterring entry; and (3) whether the market entry deterrence impact of codesharing varies by the identity of potential market entrants.
ENTRY DETERRENCE AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
In addition to a simple entry deterrence strategy, a possible cause for this strategic investment behaviour may be that municipalities have a broader, i.e.
The role of municipalities for broadband deployment in rural areas in Germany: An economic perspective
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Game-Theoretic Comparison Approach for Intercontinental Container Transportation: A Case between China and Europe with the B&R Initiative
However, when the incumbent can use the breadth of her patent to deter market entry she maximizes expected returns by claiming the smallest patent breadth possible that could achieve entry deterrence. In addition, the model shows that when entry cannot be deterred, while the incumbent can always use her patent breadth to induce the desired behavior by the entrant (i.e., infringement or non-infringement), claiming the maximum patent breadth possible is never an optimal strategy.
When less is more: optimal patent breadth under the threat of patent validity challenges
Some specific topics examined include an analysis of bidding in Ohio school milk markets, cartel stability with multiproduct firms, empirical methods in merger analysis, evidence from the US beer industry on the competitive effects of exclusive dealing, and entry deterrence in hospital procedure markets.
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But, apart from this (illicit) goal, one can distinguish between three main objectives for bundling: price discrimination, cost savings and entry deterrence.
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Section 3.1 shows how the new approach developed in Section 2.2 can be extended to a discussion of the Dixit-Spence model of entry deterrence. Section 3.2 shows how different modes of entry can be handled within the same framework.
A simple algebraic approach to teaching oligopoly models
In this section we explore the entry deterrence effect of investments which bear significant sunk costs and potentially raise rivals' costs.
Sunk costs and the natural resource extraction sector: analytical models and historical examples of hysteresis and strategic behavior in the Americas
More generally, retail banking appears to be characterized by conditions that are conducive to employing a strategy of entry deterrence. These conditions include asymmetric information between incumbents and potential entrants, prices that can be changed quickly by incumbents in response to new entry, and the possibility of preemptive investments involving sunk costs or yielding product differentiation (as in new offices).
Have barriers to entry in retail commercial banking disappeared?
Competition policy, then, should focus its efforts, first and foremost, on eliminating government-created entry barriers; second, on minimizing natural barriers; and third on prohibiting anticompetitive, entry deterrence by dominant firms.
Competition policy for developing countries: a long-run, entry-based approach
[1982]: 'Predation, Reputation, and Entry Deterrence, Journal of Economic Theory, 27, pp.
Rationality and Coordination
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