A GAP FOR ME: ENTREPRENEURS AND ENTRY

We present a theory of entrepreneurial entry (and exit) decisions. Knowing their own managerial talent, entrepreneurs decide which market to enter, where markets differ in size. We obtain a striking sorting result: Each entrant in a large market is more efficient than any entrepreneur in a smaller m...

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Published in:Journal of the European Economic Association 2006-09, Vol.4 (5), p.929-956
Main Author: Nocke, Volker
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business economics
Economic models
Efficient markets
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Fixed costs
Industrial market
Marginal costs
Market analysis
Market competition
Market entry
Market equilibrium
Market prices
Market size
Price competition
Transportation costs
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Summary:We present a theory of entrepreneurial entry (and exit) decisions. Knowing their own managerial talent, entrepreneurs decide which market to enter, where markets differ in size. We obtain a striking sorting result: Each entrant in a large market is more efficient than any entrepreneur in a smaller market because competition is endogenously more intense in larger markets. This result continues to hold when entrepreneurs can export their output to other markets, thereby incurring a unit transport cost or tariff. The sorting and price competition effects imply that the number of entrants (and hence product variety) may actually be smaller in larger markets. In the stochastic dynamic extension of the model, we show that the churning rate of entrepreneurs is higher in larger markets.
ISSN:1542-4766
1542-4774
DOI:10.1162/JEEA.2006.4.5.929