Strategic decision-making with information and extraction externalities: A structural model of the multistage investment timing game in offshore petroleum production

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1601-1621

  Cynthia Lin, C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84896362680     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00319     Document Type: Article

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