非对称情形下R & D竞争项目的策略性投资

在非对称情形下,考虑具有技术不确定和未来收益不确定的竞争研究与开发(R&;D)项目的不可逆策略性投资.利用期权博弈理论和随机优化方法给出了高效研发公司(主导者) 的最优投资阈值和最优投资规则的解析表达式,并证明了由于两公司的竞争使投资阈值下降.其次讨论了两公司的混合投资策略,并给出每个公司执行投资期权的概率和两公司同时执行投资期权的概率. 在最后给出了数值模拟算例来说明该文结论的合理性.     

Flexible capacity strategy with multiple market periods under demand uncertainty and investment constraint

We establish a flexible capacity strategy model with multiple market periods under demand uncertainty and investment constraints. In the model, a firm makes its capacity decision under a financial budget constraint at the beginning of the planning horizon which embraces n market periods. In each market period, the firm goes through three decision-making stages: the safety production stage, the additional production stage and the optimal sales stage. We formulate the problem and obtain the optimal capacity, the optimal safety production, the optimal additional production and the optimal sales of each market period under different situations. We find that there are two thresholds for the unit capacity cost. When the capacity cost is very low, the optimal capacity is determined by its financial budget; when the capacity cost is very high, the firm keeps its optimal capacity at its safety production level; and when the cost is in between of the two thresholds, the optimal capacity is determined by the capacity cost, the number of market periods and the unit cost of additional production. Further, we explore the endogenous safety production level. We verify the conditions under which the firm has different optimal safety production levels. Finally, we prove that the firm can benefit from the investment only when the designed planning horizon is longer than a threshold. Moreover, we also derive the formulae for the above three thresholds.     

Diversity of firm’s life cycle adapted from the firm’s technology investment decision

The stylized model presented is an optimal control model of technology investment decision of a single product firm. The firm’s technology investment does not have only a long-run positive effect but also a short-run adverse effect on its sales volume. We examine the case of high adverse investment effects where the firm finally leaves the market but we have observed different life cycles till this happens. Depending on the firm’s initial technology stock and sales volume, we compute different firm’s life cycles, which are driven by a trade-off between two strategies: technology versus sales focus strategy. Indifference curves, where managers are indifferent to apply initially technology or sales focus strategies, separate founding conditions of the firm to various classes distinguishable because of the firm’s life cycle.     

The optimal resource portfolio under consumer choice and demand risk for vertically differentiated products

We study the optimal resource portfolio of a firm that sells two vertically differentiated products and utilizes resource flexibility and responsive pricing. We model this decision problem as a two-stage stochastic programming problem with recourse: In the first stage, the firm determines its resource mix and capacities so as to maximize the expected profit under demand uncertainty; in the second stage, uncertainty is resolved and the firm determines its production and pricing decision, constrained by its investment decision. We show that the objective function of this decision problem is not well-behaved (ie, it may have multiple local maxima). Using the concept of Pareto dominance, we reduce the feasible investment region, without loss of optimality, to one in which the objective function is well-behaved everywhere. This reduction allows us to derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimal capacity decision and to gain insights.     

不确定竞争市场投资决策

本文针对不确定的竞争市场 ,分析现在作一个数量为 I的不可逆投资 ,产生一个生产容量 k,以在将来不确定竞争市场中比潜在进入的竞争对手具有某种占先优势这样一个投资机会的策略投资行为和机会的价值。用博奕论方法分析和给出了基于现在投资可获得将来增长期权价值的决策方法。     

奈特不确定条件下企业有成本可逆投资策略研究

风险是企业投资决策关键影响因素之一,采纳奈特不确定性来刻画风险,并在此基础上构建了模糊规避偏好和投资有成本可逆条件下企业投资决策模型.模型结果表明企业最优投资策略为双阈值策略:企业增加投资以避免资本边际收益大于上限阈值,削减资本存量以避免资本边际收益低于下限阈值,当资本边际收益处于上下限阈值之间时,企业既不增加投资也不削减资本.比较静态分析显示奈特不确定性增加会降低最优投资策略上下限阈值范围.     

Real options with synergies: static <Emphasis Type="Italic">versus</Emphasis> dynamic policies

We develop a model for determining whether a firm should exercise two real options individually or simultaneously. The simultaneous exercise of both options has synergy of cost savings, while the separate exercise of each option benefits from project flexibility. This trade-off determines the optimal exercise policy. We compare static and dynamic management of multiple real options. A firm under static management determines the type of exercise of real options ex ante; on the other hand, a firm under dynamic management makes the decision at the time of exercise. We show that highly correlated projects increase the option values under both styles of management because a firm is more likely to enjoy the synergy gains of joint investment. We also highlight the advantage of dynamic management over static management for weakly correlated projects.     

Volume flexibility and capacity investment: a real options approach

This paper considers the investment decision of a firm where it has to decide about the timing and capacity. We obtain that in a fast-growing market, right after investment the firm produces below capacity, where the utilization rate (the proportion of capacity that is used for production right after the investment) increases with market uncertainty for a very big market trend, and shows no monotonicity for a moderately large market trend. On the other hand, we get that, for a slowly growing or shrinking market, the firm produces up to capacity right after investment. In the intermediate case, the firm produces up to capacity right after investment when uncertainty is low and below capacity when uncertainty is high, whereas the utilization rate decreases with the market uncertainty.     

市场与规制双重不确定下企业环境投资行为选择

通过主体适应性规则构建企业环境投资行为模型,从政府环境规制和市场波动等方面刻画企业环境投资决策面临的不确定性,基于计算实验方法探寻企业在基准、震荡、上涨与下跌等4种情景下的环境投资行为规律。研究发现:政府规制强度越强,企业环境投资越充分,但投资偏差现象越明显。在震荡情景中,企业的环境投资行为表现出非理性状态,在上涨情景中,企业环境投资表现出过度反应。当市场产品价格波动处在单边行情,政府可以通过较为宽松的环境规制实现目标,而当市场产品价格处在震荡波动时,政府需要通过较为严格的环境规制刺激企业进行环境投资。企业的环境投资受到政府规制与市场信号的共同影响,政府的环境规制稳定的持续刺激并不会让企业盲目投资,但政府环境规制的频繁变动却会使企业无所适从。     

Optimal production strategy under demand fluctuations: Technology versus capacity

This paper provides a comparative analysis of five possible production strategies for two kinds of flexibility investment, namely flexible technology and flexible capacity, under demand fluctuations. Each strategy is underpinned by a set of operations decisions on technology level, capacity amount, production quantity, and pricing. By evaluating each strategy, we show how market uncertainty, production cost structure, operations timing, and investment costing environment affect a firm’s strategic decisions. The results show that there is no sequential effect of the two flexibility investments. We also illustrate the different ways in which flexible technology and flexible capacity affect a firm’s profit under demand fluctuations. The results reveal that compared to no flexibility investment, flexible technology investment earns the same or a higher profit for a firm, whereas flexible capacity investment can be beneficial or harmful to a firm’s profit. Moreover, we prove that higher flexibility does not guarantee more profit. Depending on the situation, the optimal strategy can be any one of the five possible strategies. We also provide the optimality conditions for each strategy.     

随机环境下技术开发和授权的最优策略

技术创新的价值实现需要后续的商业化投资,在随机不确定的市场环境下,创新企业面对着投资或等待、自身开发或技术授权的策略选择.利用实物期权方法建立了市场不确定时的决策模型,分析开发能力、不确定性等多种因素对企业授权的影响,在多种情况下得到企业的最优决策并对相关现象给出了解释.研究发现不确定性提高了企业投资的临界值,提高了企业的技术授权价格,高度的不确定性减少了技术授权的可能,较高的能力差异会促进技术交易.     

Single versus multiple supplier sourcing strategies

Successful supply chain management necessitates an effective sourcing strategy to combat uncertainties in both supply and demand. In particular, supply disruption results in excessive downtime of production resources, upstream and downstream supply chain repercussions, and eventually a loss in the market value of the firm. In this paper we analyze single period, single product sourcing decisions under demand uncertainty. Our approach integrates product prices, supplier costs, supplier capacities, historical supplier reliabilities and firm specific inventory costs. A unique feature of our approach is the integration of a firm specific supplier diversification function. We also extend our analysis to examine the impact of minimum supplier order quantities. Our results indicate that single sourcing is a dominant strategy only when supplier capacities are large relative to the product demand and when the firm does not obtain diversification benefits. In other cases, we find that multiple sourcing is an optimal sourcing strategy. We also characterize a non-intuitive trade-off between supplier minimum order quantities, costs, and supplier reliabilities. Finally, we examine the robustness of our results through an extensive numerical analysis of the key parameters of our model.     

不确定环境下基于时间、费用及鲁棒性权衡的多目标项目调度优化

项目调度中的时间和费用是两个重要的指标,而在不确定环境下进度计划的鲁棒性则是保证项目平稳实施的关键。本文研究不确定环境下的多目标项目调度优化问题,以优化项目的工期、鲁棒值和成本为目标安排各活动的开始时间。基于此,作者构建多目标项目调度优化模型,将模型分解为三个子模型分析目标间的权衡关系,然后设计非劣排序遗传算法进行求解,应用精英保留策略和基于子模型权衡关系的优化策略优化算法,进行算法测试和算例参数敏感性分析。最后,应用上述方法研究一个项目实例,计算得到非劣解集,实例的敏感性分析结果进一步验证了三个目标间的权衡关系,据此提出资源的有效利用策略。本文的研究可以为多目标项目调度制定进度计划提供定量化决策支持。     

切换成本对线性市场投资决策影响的实物期权分析

本文基于Hotelling模型,针对一个企业在线性区域内的投资决策,考虑投资者在采用为自己作为新进入公司,为新客户使用本公司的产品付出切换成本来竞争市场的策略行为,建立需求不确定环境中的连续动态模型,应用实物期权分析方法评价投资者的投资机会价值和最优投资策略,研究切换成本对投资者投资机会的价值和投资决策的影响.本文研究结果给出了投资者在付出切换成本获得市场份额和减少成本增加投资价值之间的权衡.     

Optimal investment in a defaultable bond

The present paper analyzes the optimal investment strategy in a defaultable (corporate) bond and a money market account in a continuous time model. Due to jumps in the bond price our market model is incomplete. The treatment of information on the firm’s asset value is based on an approach unifying the structural model and the reduced-form model. Specifically, the asset value will be assumed to be observable only at finitely many time points before the maturity of the bond. The optimal investment process will be worked out first for a short time-horizon with a general risk-averse utility function, then a multi-period optimal strategy with logarithmic and power utility will be presented using backward induction. The optimal investment strategy is analyzed numerically for the logarithmic utility.     

竞争条件下公司最优投资策略纳什均衡分析

大多数实物期权文献都只是研究一个公司在没有竞争条件下的最优决策,然而实际上竞争者的行为经常影响到公司的投资机会.通过建立投资概率是临界值的函数模型,根据期权博弈理论研究了在不确定条件和不同信息结构下,一个或多个公司的最优投资策略纳什均衡解,并用MATLAB语言对案例进行了仿真分析,画图说明了参数变化对投资策略的影响.     

基于随机模糊投资乘数的离散CPPI资产配置研究

以传统CPPI投资策略的分析框架为基础,在风险资产为连续价格波动的条件下,构建离散投资决策时点的CPPI投资策略。引入模糊决策的分析方法度量投资决策者的心理预期,将传统CPPI投资策略中的投资乘数修正为随机模糊投资乘数,采用马尔科夫链蒙特卡洛模拟风险资产未来市场价格,利用模糊隶属函数描述投资决策者对未来市场运行状况预期的不确定性,保证即使投资决策者预期不精确的条件下,也能保证离散CPPI投资策略获得相对稳定的投资效果。利用中国证券市场上的真实数据进行实证检验,认为:随机模糊投资乘数最大限度地涵盖了投资决策者主观预测的不确定性;基于随机模糊投资乘数的离散CPPI投资策略在不同的市场运行状况中,较传统的CPPI投资策略更具投资的灵活性,可以在保证投资保险的前提下,追求较高的投资收益。     

Multi-resource investment strategies: Operational hedging under demand uncertainty

Consider a firm that markets multiple products, each manufactured using several resources representing various types of capital and labor, and a linear production technology. The firm faces uncertain product demand and has the option to dynamically readjust its resource investment levels, thereby changing the capacities of its linear manufacturing process. The cost to adjust a resource level either up or down is assumed to be linear. The model developed here explicitly incorporates both capacity investment decisions and production decisions, and is general enough to include reversible and irreversible investment. The product demand vectors for successive periods are assumed to be independent and identically distributed. The optimal investment strategy is determined with a multi-dimensional newsvendor model using demand distributions, a technology matrix, prices (product contribution margins), and marginal investment costs. Our analysis highlights an important conceptual distinction between deterministic and stochastic environments: the optimal investment strategy in our stochastic model typically involves some degree of capacity imbalance which can never be optimal when demand is known.     

Preemptive patenting under uncertainty and asymmetric information

This paper examines the investment behaviour of an incumbent and a potential entrant that are competing for a patent with a stochastic payoff. We incorporate asymmetric information into the model by assuming that the challenger has complete information about the incumbent whereas the latter does not know the precise value of its opponent’s investment cost. We find that even a small probability of being preempted gives the informationally-disadvantaged firm an incentive to invest at the breakeven point where it is indifferent between investing and being preempted. By investing inefficiently early to protect its market share, the incumbent gives up not only its option to delay the investment, but also reduces the value of the firm by an amount that increases with the investment cost incurred and the potential loss of market share.     

Irreversible capital accumulation under interest rate uncertainty

We consider the optimal sequential irreversible investment policy of a value maximizing firm facing decreasing returns to scale and interest rate uncertainty. We characterize the optimal accumulation policy and its value for a broad class of diffusion models of the short interest rate by focusing on the marginal investment decision and deriving the marginal value of capital explicitly. We also state a set of conditions under which there is a maximal capital stock above which the option to expand productive capacity further in the future becomes valueless. Hence, our results indicate that interest rate uncertainty may limit the size of an optimally investing firm.