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This article provides a framework for the analysis of cartel formation. It models the strategic interaction among firms who invest into production capacity, sell a near-homogeneous good, and are subject to unexpected demand shocks with persistence. The firms either compete or collude in prices....
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Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...
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investment game formulated in continuous time in which reduced-form profits are subject to industry shocks. We show that the … rivals' investment are properly accounted for …
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An ECM is derived from first order conditions of a factor demand model. Decisions on inventory stock and capacity utilization are (endogenously) modeled, by which a large system of equations results. Within this system the exogeneity of real factor prices as well as sales is tested. The role of...
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This paper considers investment decisions within an uncertain dynamic and competitive framework. Each investment …
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This paper studies a resource extraction problem with capacity constraints, expansion options and stochastic demand process. The producer has to decide on the optimal rate of extraction and the optimal time to build further capacity simultaneously. Using numerical methods to solve the problem,...
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We consider competitive capacity investment for a duopoly of two distinct producers. The producers are exposed to …, we are led to a nonzero-sum timing game describing the transitions among the discrete investment stages. Working in a … quantifies the dynamic competition effects and yields insight into dynamic preemption and over-investment in a general asymmetric …
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This paper extends the real options literature by discussing an investment problem, where a firm has to determine … optimal investment timing and optimal capacity choice at the same time under conditions of irreversible investment … hand it causes investment to be delayed to an extent that even small uncertainty makes waiting and accumulation of further …
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scale investments in renewable power generation in the wholesale electricitymarket, we address investment in stand …-perfect Nash equilibrium of this dynamicStackelberg game by first deriving the consumer's optimal investment time and the … consumer, which average over 22% across a range of model parameters.Next, we evaluate the impact of consumer's investment in …
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This paper studies a model that includes investment-specific technological shocks, a variable capacity utilization rate … investment prices over business cycles …
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