In the strategic investment under uncertainty literature the trade off between the value of waiting known from single decision maker models and the incentive to preempt competitors is mainly studied in duopoly models.This paper aims at studying competitive investments in new markets where more...

This paper considers the problem of investment timing under uncertainty in a duopoly framework.When both firms want to be the first investor a coordination problem arises.Here, a method is proposed to deal with this coordination problem, involving the use of symmetric mixed strategies.The method...