We study the regulatory policy of a monopoly facing stochastic demand for the service it provides after performing an irreversible investment in infrastructure. We find that under uncertainty, bundling the decisions about investment timing and scale of operation is beneficial. When...

As in [3], we study the deterministic optimization problem of a profit-maximizing firm which plans its sales/production schedule. The firm knows the revenue associated to a given level of sales, as well as its production and storage costs. The revenue and the production cost are assumed to be...