Strategic Decision-Making with Information and Extraction Externalities: A Structural Model of the MultiStage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production

C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, vol. 95, issue 5, 1601-1621

Abstract: When individual petroleum-producing firms make their exploration and development investment timing decisions, positive information externalities and negative extraction externalities may lead them to interact strategically with their neighbors. This paper examines whether these inefficient strategic interactions take place by estimating a structural econometric model of the firms' multi-stage investment timing game. Results show that firms interact strategically on small tracts but not on large tracts. For small tracts, having a neighboring tract explored reduces real profits by about $26 million, while having a neighboring tract developed raises real profits by about $3.5 million. © 2013 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keywords: investment timing game; structural econometrics; petroleum production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C51 D92 L71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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