Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Carree Martin Author-Name: Dejardin Marcus Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Entry thresholds and actual entry and exit in local markets Abstract: Bresnahan and Reiss (1991) derive entry thresholds (equilibrium numbers of firms) for local markets but do not investigate actual entry and exit flows. This paper investigates for thirteen Belgian retail and service industries whether markets with actual numbers of firms higher (lower) than the thresholds display exit (entry) in subsequent periods. Keywords: industrial organization ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2004 Number: 048 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:549f5f06-b479-4e66-9737-af493ac10600/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 75270 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2004048