Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46836 
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Year of Publication: 
1996
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1996
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 777
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper discusses a simultaneous market entry game between two firms with different fixed costs. This case is a typical application of mixed strategy equilibria. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the low-cost firm is more likely to enter the market. This presumption is wrong. Instead, the paper demonstrates a market entry paradox: the equilibrium probability of entry is higher for the high-cost firm than the equilibrium probability of entry of the low-cost firm.
Subjects: 
Market entry
mixed strategy equilibrium
JEL: 
D43
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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