Regulation games between government and competing companies: Oil spills and other disasters

Decision Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-164

  Cheung, May ^a   Zhuang, Jun ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline industry; Coal mining; Competition between companies; Disaster; Game theory; Nuclear power; Oil spill; Pure and mixed strategies; Regulation; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862666297     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1120.0233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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