scholarly journals What Inventory Behavior Tells Us about Business Cycles

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bils ◽  
James A. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Inventory Behavior

What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About How Business Cycles Have Changed

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lubik ◽  
Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte ◽  
Felipe F. Schwartzman
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Inventory Behavior

scholarly journals What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bils ◽  
James A Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Marginal Cost ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Intertemporal Substitution ◽  
Countercyclical Markups ◽  
Inventory Behavior

The countercyclical pattern of inventory-sales ratios is a striking feature of inventory behavior. In a model where inventories are productive for sales, both the markup of price over marginal cost and expected changes in marginal cost are key determinants of that ratio. This paper argues that costly variation in factor utilization gives rise to countercyclical markups in production-to-stock manufacturing industries. The markup turns out to be more important than intertemporal substitution in explaining the behavior of inventory-sales ratios. (JEL E22, E32)

What inventory behavior tells us about how business cycles have changed

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 264-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Daniel Sarte ◽  
Felipe Schwartzman ◽  
Thomas A. Lubik
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Inventory Behavior

A Macroeconomic Analysis Of Inventory/Sales Ratios

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Bassin ◽  
Michael T. Marsh ◽  
Stefanie Walitzer
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Macroeconomic Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Inventory Behavior

Metzlers (1941) research on the relationship between inventory and business cycles initiated serious interest in inventory behavior and its effect on the behavior of firms. A flurry of related research took place in the following two decades. Research of the time clearly demonstrated that, at a macro level, the inventory behaviors are significant features in business cycles. One measure of inventory behavior introduced and analyzed was the inventory-to-sales ratio. We continue to believe that understanding of inventory behavior at both the macro and microeconomic levels is a prerequisite to understanding factors that determine a firms success, and that analysis of the inventory-to-sales ratio is important component of inventory behavior. The U.S. Department of Commerce and other government and private institutions track this ratio and report regularly. Financial analysts use both a company's trend and its comparative value within a sector to make investment decisions.

Inventories, business cycles, and variable capital utilization

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas M. Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Capital Utilization ◽  
Inventory Behavior

AbstractBils and Kahn [Bils, M., and J. A. Kahn. 2000. “What Inventory Behavior Tells us about Business Cycles.”

Peculiarities of Modern Dynamics of the Global Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 78-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Klinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Long Waves ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Business Taxation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
China And India ◽  
World Economic

Rates and factors of modern world economic growth and the consequences of rapid expansion of the economies of China and India are analyzed in the article. Modification of business cycles and long waves of economic development are evaluated. The need of reforming business taxation is demonstrated.

Institutions as the Ordering Factor and as the Destabilizing Force: New Institutional and Post Keynesian Perspectives

2006 ◽  
pp. 102-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Skorobogatov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Forward Contracts

The paper is dedicated to the New Institutional and Post Keynesian perspectives on institutions and their relation to economic stability. Embeddedness, institutional environment, and institutional arrangements are considered. Within these institutions conventional expectations, the economic policy and forward contracts are analyzed. Upon these perspectives the author shows a contradictory relation between institutions and the order and develops an institutional theory of business cycles.

Adverse Selection, Lemon Shocks and Business Cycles

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (361) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Ikeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Adverse Selection

News-Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges

CFA Digest ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rich Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles
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