HighlightsThe investment behaviors and incentive impacts are explored in a toll road project.Demand uncertainty and market entry flexibility are considered.The real option and optimization theory is leveraged to derive rich insights.A numerical study is conducted to enrich the results.The results shed light on the investment and policy decision-makings.

    AbstractThis paper elaborates the impacts of government incentives on the private investment behaviors including the choices of investment timing, capacity, and price under demand uncertainty. The results suggest that revenue guarantee, concession period extension, lump-sum subsidy, and unit subsidy can induce timely investment. Revenue guarantee and concession period extension have limited impacts on the choices of capacity and price. Lump-sum subsidy leads to a smaller capacity and a higher price, while unit subsidy leads to a larger capacity and a lower price when comparing to the choices by a monopoly without government incentives.


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    Title :

    Government incentive impacts on private investment behaviors under demand uncertainty


    Contributors:
    Li, Shuai (author) / Cai, Hubo (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-03-16


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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