Disincentives for cost-reducing investment

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(97)00237-1MaRDI QIDQ1127435zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Charles J. Thomas

Publication date 13 August 1998

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

strategic investmentasymmetric auction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

Recommendations

• Co-investment deterrence
• Cost of capital for incentives on capacity expansion investments
• Minimizing costs can be costly
• Future Investment Constraints Reduce Present Investment
• Investments with declining cost following a Lévy process
• Cost constrained industry inefficiency
• Cost uncertainty and the rate of investment
• Irreversible investment, operating flexibility, and time lags
• Producer Incentives in Cost Allocation
• Monopoly incentives for cost-reducing R\&D

Cites work

• Asymmetric Auctions
• Comparative statics in first price auctions
• Existence of an equilibrium in first price auctions

Cited in

(4)

• Uniqueness of the equilibrium in first-price auctions
• Auctions with almost homogeneous bidders
• Observable versus unobservable R\&D investments in duopolies
• Information cost and securitization

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