inventory variables, to effectively manage the variability. Our results hold for both single stage and multistage inventory …This paper introduces a novel way to measure the variability of order flows in supply chains, the peakedness. The … peakedness can be used to measure the variability assuming the order flow is a general point pro- cess. We show basic properties …

the inventories. We find that this inverse leverage effect, or “inventory effect”, is relatively robust, for different … management, hedging strategies or Value-at-Risk estimates. Incidentally, the inventory effect sheds some new light on the debate …

When the production of high quality needs the employment of qualified labour, firms' decisions concerning quality are …

In an incomplete asset market, firms compute the value of production plans by approximating them with the payoffs of …