Monopoly: Investment and Expansion Options
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2011Publisher
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This chapter examines the situation faced by a firm with exclusive access to a market or enjoying insurmountable structural barriers enabling it to ignore strategic interactions by rivals when devising its investment strategy. It analyzes two options, investing in a new market and expanding an existing market. It considers both lump-sum and incremental capacity expansion models.