Theory of Market Entry Barriers

Author: Xu Guoxing
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Market entry barriers are a hot, key, and cutting-edge research field in industrial economics or industrial organization theory. The theories of its main schools have had a significant impact on the formulation of antitrust policies and judicial practices in relevant countries. This book reviews the historical trajectory and intellectual journey of the theory of market entry barriers, introduces and analyzes the ideological foundations, viewpoints, and policy proposals of the main theoretical schools, discusses the causes and welfare consequences of market entry barriers, and proposes a systematic and comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis framework for the role mechanism and efficiency of market entry barriers. It also offers policy recommendations on China's industrial entry barriers. This book is suitable for teachers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduate students with a foundation in economic mathematics, researchers, and staff in government departments engaged in antitrust and competition policy research as well as related judicial practices. It can also serve as a teaching reference book for courses on market entry barriers in industrial economics or industrial organization theory.