INDEX

Absolute cost advantage 37–46

Advertising 37, 50–55, 71, 76, 81

Asset specificity 40, 59–63

Bain’s hypothesis 23–25, 32

Barriers to entry

definitions 7–14

determinants 15–59

Barriers to exit 59–63

Capacity excess 27–30, 37, 67

Contestability 3–5, 31–32, 85

Cournot competition 11, 28

Demand elasticity 34–35, 78

Differentiation 46–55

Dominant firm 63–68

Empirical models & entry 68–82

Fixed costs 31–81

Incumbency 12–14

Information

incomplete 15–17, 36

asymmetric 41–47

Index of barriers to entry 68–69

Learning by doing 43–44

Limit pricing

static 24–30, 33–34

dynamic 63–68

Minimum efficient plant (MEP) 17–24

Mobility barriers 7, 14, 60

Multiproduct 61

Network economies 44

Oligopoly and entry 33

Opportunity cost 39–40

Patent 11, 40–41

Pre-emption 67

Profit and entry 71–77

Product differentiation 47–55

Rent 13, 39

Scale economies 17–25

Signalling 16

Stackelberg model 49, 51

Sunk costs 26–37, 47, 60, 62, 83

Switching costs 47–49

Takeovers 13–14

War of attrition 60

Welfare and entry 10–12, 84–85