What Are Barriers to Entry? In economics, barriers to entry are factors that can prevent or impede newcomers to a market or industry sector; as such, they can limit competition.

Barriers to entry The last in our series on the shortcomings of economics looks at the discipline’s lack of diversity May 10th 2018 | 5 min read ...

Airlines have a long history of irrational competition. Customers are price-sensitive and barriers to entry are low, leading to our view that airlines globally lack economic moats.

There are many barriers to entry in the oil and gas sector including high resource ownership, high startup costs and regulations among others.

With a growing population of multi-modal travelers and the development of shared-use transportation, the demand for seamless access to different modes is rising, particularly as environmental and ...

Porter, M. E., and R. E. Caves. "From Entry Barriers to Mobility Barriers: Conjectural Decisions and Contrived Deterrence to New Competition." Quarterly Journal of Economics 91, no. 2 (May 1977): ...

Drawing from harmonized firm-level data for 16 industrialized and emerging economies, we find that access to finance matters most for the entry of small firms and in sectors that are more dependent ...

A rise in protectionism could turn the clock back a long way. This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Barriers to entry” ...