The Spread in Lump Sum Stumpage Price Bids

Stumpage Price Volatility in the U.s. South

Forest products have remained an important part of southern rural economies in the United States. As one of the major raw materials, stumpage has been a key component of production cost in the forest products industry, and therefore its price has been of great concern. Since the late 1970’s stumpage prices in the U.S. South have been changing considerably over time. This study uses analysis of ...

Articulation Compatibility in Eliciting Price Bids

Do consumers prefer auctions that allow them to place more precise bids to auctions that accept less precise bids? Can consumers accurately estimate their need for price-elicitation precision? This research addresses these questions by applying the notion of compatibility to the relationship between consumers’ bidding price uncertainty and the precision implied by the price-elicitation task. Da...

Stock Price Manipulation Through Takeover Bids

Effort or Timing: The Effect of Lump-Sum Bonuses

The Lump Sum: a Theory of Modal Parts

hand is. We are modally spread out, a trans-world mereological sum of world-bound parts. We are lump sums of modal parts. And so are all other ordinary objects. Below, I explore lump theory and investigate five arguments against it. These arguments may be the primary reasons why lump theory has not been accepted (or even relatively decently explored) until now. I maintain that these arguments c...