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Managerial Firms, Entry, and Switching Costs

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  • Quan Dong
  • Juan Carlos Bárcena-Ruiz
  • Joana Díaz-Benito

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Empirical evidence shows that switching costs are important in many industries. We analyze the welfare effects of entry into markets with switching costs when firms can be run by managers and the entrant may be partially foreign-owned. We find that with profit-maximizing firms, the welfare effect of entry depends crucially on the ownership of the entrant firm. We also show that entry is less likely with managerial firms than it is with profit-maximizing firms. In the latter case, entry always reduces welfare if the share of the entrant firm owned by foreign investors is high. However, with managerial firms, entry always increases welfare.

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  • Quan Dong & Juan Carlos Bárcena-Ruiz & Joana Díaz-Benito, 2017. "Managerial Firms, Entry, and Switching Costs," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 315-327, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ijecbs:v:24:y:2017:i:3:p:315-327
    DOI: 10.1080/13571516.2017.1309750
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