Do Inventories Moderate Fluctuations in Output? (ICPSR 1175)

Principal Investigator(s): Allen, Donald S., Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Summary: This research tries to answer two of several open questions identified by Michael C. Lovell in "Researching Inventories: Why Haven't We Learned More?" (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS [June 1994], 33-41). First, do firms use inventories to schedule production efficiently? And second, are problems of aggregation important? (more info)

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Allen, Donald S. Do Inventories Moderate Fluctuations in Output?. ICPSR01175-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998-10-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR01175.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01175.v1

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Summary:   This research tries to answer two of several open questions identified by Michael C. Lovell in "Researching Inventories: Why Haven't We Learned More?" (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS [June 1994], 33-41). First, do firms use inventories to schedule production efficiently? And second, are problems of aggregation important?

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Original ICPSR Release:  1998-10-06

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