BEYOND PRICE AND USE-VALUE

Price Uncertainty and Corporate Value

________________________________________________________________________ Abstract This study examines the sensitivity of equity values of oil producers to changes in the uncertainty of future oil prices. We document that this sensitivity is negatively correlated with a firm's debt ratio and its production costs. These results indicate that companies that are more likely to experience financial ...

Negotiating Beyond the Bid Price

This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding demonstrates our vision for interfaces that facilitate negotiation between buyers and sellers. INTRODUCTION Despite the growth in the number of on-line auction sites, there is still a need for a more dy...

The Value and Price of Land

A loaf of bread: Price and value.

In the Western world, the basic staple of nutrition is bread. It evolved, from Neolithic times in Mesopotamia and the Levant, from flour made from natural hybrids of emmer and einkorn. Its form has changed from that of a dark, coarse and heavy loaf, baked in the ashes, to the enriched artistic breads of the late twentieth century. Its variety of forms conferred status on those who ate its refin...

Beyond Use and Design

Through a technalysis of a group of designers constructing a three-dimensional virtual world we suggest new concepts for understanding our relationship to information technology. By conceptualizing information technology as the organizing structure for social interaction and regarding it as an influential mediator and moderator of human experiences, we arrive at a new perspective that reaches b...