We focus on factors that drive the dynamics of commodity prices. We highlight the capital budgeting implications of three highly–cited, nested, multi–factor models for commodity prices that have been successful in empirical investigations. Competing assumptions regarding commodity prices and...

We analyse the entry decisions of competing firms in a two-player stochastic real option game, when rivals can exert different but correlated uncertain profitabilities from operating. In the presence of entry costs, decision thresholds exhibit hysteresis, the range of which is decreasing in the...