Economics of telecommunications: capital budgeting under competitive markets using strategic game theory and real options approach
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This paper presents a novel method to evaluate the economic feasibility of Fiber-to-the-Home networks resorting to state-of-the-art techniques. The method presented in this paper is a powerful combination of game theory, advanced capital budgeting algorithms with real options and Monte Carlo simulations with complex statistical distributions to evaluate project risk. Index Terms — FTTH, Game theory, Cournot, von Stackelberg, Real options, Binary trees, Monte Carlo, Beta-Pert.
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