Reforms and Entry: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon Bhaumik, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Shagun Krishnan

Review of Development Economics, 2009, vol. 13, issue 4, 658-672

Abstract: Traditional research in the context of product market entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the possibility of entry, and have identified industry‐specific factors that affect entry rates. However, following de Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using three‐digit industry‐level data from India, for the 1984–97 period, we examine the phenomenon of entry in the Indian context. Our empirical results suggest that during the 1980s industry‐level factors largely explained variations in entry rates, but that, following the economic federalism brought about by the post‐1991 reforms, variations in entry rates during the 1990s were explained largely by state‐level institutional and legacy factors. Past productivity growth affects net entry rates as well.

Date: 2009
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