Overlapping ownership has contrasting effects on capacity investments if duopoly firms invest sequentially. The follower’s reaction is less aggressive, but the leader acts more aggressively, either by choosing larger capacities or by shifting from accommodation to deterrence. If it shifts the...

Expanding airports is a topic which can easily make it to the first page of the national press. But this is highly unlikely as "bad news" is "good news" and most often failures and scandals make it to the front page. Berlin airport or the on-going failure to open up a nearly-complete new airport...

Expanding airports is a topic which can easily make it to the first page of the national press. But this is highly unlikely as "bad news" is "good news" and most often failures and scandals make it to the front page. Berlin airport or the on-going failure to open up a nearly-complete new airport...

We analyze the optimal accumulation of renewable energy (backstop) generating capacity in a capital-energy economy with exhaustible fossil fuels. The analysis rests upon graphical illustrations of optimal control considerations. Due to the exhaustibility of fossil fuels the relative...