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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library ((TDLC,volume 28))

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This chapter is organized as follows. The economic problem on which this book focuses is motivated in Section 1. The two tools used to study this economic problem, which are real options theory and game theory, are discussed in Sections 2 and 3, respectively. Section 4 surveys the contents of this book. In Section 5 some promising extensions of the research presented in this book are listed.

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Huisman, K.J.M. (2001). Introduction. In: Technology Investment: A Game Theoretic Real Options Approach. Theory and Decision Library, vol 28. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3423-2_1

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