Entry and Competition in a Transition Economy: The Case of Slovakia

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The present paper provides first empirical evidence on the effects of entry on market conduct for a transition economy. We estimate size thresholds required to support different numbers of firms for seven retail and professional service industries in a large number of distinct geographic markets in Slovakia. Our results suggest a differential impact of entry on market conduct: while market conduct is unaffected by entry in the north-western parts of Slovakia, competition tends to kick in slowly in most professions in the south-east. This latter region suffers from infrastructure bottlenecks and competitors require a larger increase in the number of customers to come in.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Department of Economic Policy Working Paper Series ; No. 3

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Organization and Market Structure ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; New Firms; Startups ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Thema: entry thresholds ; competition ; Slovakia ; cross section ; geographic markets

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lábaj, Martin ; Silaniè, Peter ; Weiss, Christoph
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Economics in Bratislava, Department of Economic Policy
• (wo): Bratislava
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/201197
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ