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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"entry deterrence"”.
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Capacity, entry deterrence, and horizontal merger
… dissertation examines the free-rider problem of entry deterrence, the profitability of a horizontal merger, and the effects of a horizontal merger on the outsiders’ profits and industry prices, in the markets where firms' capacity costs are sunk. We investigate the free-rider problem of entry …
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Strategic firm behavior and entry deterrence: three essays
… thesis consists of three independent chapters on entry deterrence. The first two chapters consider the use of contracts as a barrier to entry, while the final chapter examines the possibility of firms expanding their product lines to deter entry in a vertical differentiation model. In Chapter 1, …
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Strategic Entry Deterrence In the Pharmaceutical Industry: Revisiting Product Proliferation
… of 1984, as almost all drugs experience generic entry after patent protection lapses. This paper updates a hypothesis presented in a current paper by Ellison on the existence entry-deterrence motives for strategic investments, specifically product proliferation. Entry deterrence is not possible …
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
This paper extends the entry deterrence literature by examining coordinating advertising in markets with consumption externalities using a stochastic success function. Optimal advertising and pricing strategies are analysed when an incumbent firm faces a challenger with a product of equal quality. …
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The impact of market forces and public health insurance on inpatient care
… on the impact of strategic hospital behavior on entry into new procedure markets, and second on the effect of changes in Medicaid and Medicare on hospital care. Chapter 1, "Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-by-Doing," investigates whether incumbent …
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New methods for econometric inference
… shows that there is some evidence of strategic entry deterrence in pharmaceutical industry where incumbents may use strategic investment to prevent generic entries when their patents expire. Many economic models yield conditional moment inequalities that can be used for inference on parameters …
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Essays on Financial Economics
This dissertation consists of three papers. In the first paper, I study firms' capital raising decisions in a two-stage signaling game. In the model, firms can issue debt or equity to finance sequentially arriving investment projects. Management is assumed to have an initial information advantage …