TY  - GEN
AB  - In this paper we study a two–player investment game with a first mover advantage in continuous time
with stochastic payoffs, driven by a geometric Brownian motion. One of the players is assumed to be
ambiguous with max–min preferences over a strongly rectangular set of priors. We develop a strategy
and equilibrium concept allowing for ambiguity and show that equilibria can be preemptive (a player
invests at a point where investment is Pareto dominated by waiting) or sequential (one player invests as
if she were the exogenously appointed leader). Following the standard literature, the worst–case prior for
the ambiguous player if she is the second mover is obtained by setting the lowest possible trend in the set
of priors. However, if the ambiguous player is the first mover, then the worst–case prior can be given by
either the lowest or the highest trend in the set of priors. This novel result shows that “worst–case prior”
in a setting with geometric Brownian motion and –ambiguity over the drift does not always equate to
“lowest trend”.
DA  - 2016
KW  - Real Options
KW  - Knightian Uncertainty
KW  - Worst–Case Prior
KW  - Optimal Stopping
KW  - Timing Game
LA  - eng
PY  - 2016
SN  - 0931-6558
SP  - 36-
TI  - Fear of the market or fear of the competitor? Ambiguity in a real options game
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29004800
Y2  - 2024-11-22T03:07:15
ER  -