Entry deterrence and experimentation under demand uncertainty

Uncertainty and entry deterrence*

We study a model where capacity installation by an incumbent firm serves to deter others from entering the industry. We argue that uncertainty about demand or costs forces the incumbent to choose a higher capacity level than it would under certainty. This higher level diminishes the attractiveness of deter rence (Proposition 1) and, therefore, the range of parameter values for which deterrence ...

Systems under Demand Uncertainty

Systems under Demand Uncertainty

Financial Intermediation and Entry Deterrence

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between an incumbent rm's nancial contract with a bank and its product market decisions in the face of the threat of entry, in a dynamic model. The main results of the paper are: there exists a separating equilibrium with no limit pricing; the low-cost incumbent repays more to the bank in the rst period, due to the threat of entry; and there are paramet...

Network Competition and Entry Deterrence*

We develop a model of logit demand that extends the traditional duopoly framework of network competition to a multi-firm industry. First, we show that incumbents establish the reciprocal access charge inefficiently below cost when they compete in prices but they behave efficiently if they compete in utilities. Secondly, we study how incumbents determine the industry-wide access charge under the...