Equilibrium capacity expansion under stochastic demand growth

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-42

  Garcia, Alfredo ^a   Shen, Zhijiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity expansion; Critical infrastructure; Dynamic games; Markov perfect equilibrium

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY ADDITIONS; CAPACITY EXPANSION; CRITICAL ENERGY; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; DEMAND GROWTH; DEPRECIATION RATES; DYNAMIC GAME; DYNAMIC OLIGOPOLY; ENTRY COSTS; EXCESS CAPACITY; GROWING DEMAND; INVESTMENT COSTS; MARKET CONDITION; MARKOV PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM; OPTIMAL LEVEL; PRODUCTION COST; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; TIME LAG;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; PROFITABILITY; PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC WORKS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 77249173326     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0719     Document Type: Article

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