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The principles underlying the recording of changes in inventories are explained in the System of National Accounts, 1993 (1993 SNA), but operational guidelines on their measurement are lacking. This paper elaborates specific statistical techniques and their underlying assumptions for calculating...
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This paper studies the structure and evolution of trade protection in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries in the 1990s. MENA countries use tariffs and nontariff barriers, and tariff dispersion and nontariff barriers, as substitute protection measures. Tariff levels and tariff...
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Based on an analysis of high-frequency panel data for U.S. firms, this paper finds that inventory investment has been … justified on the grounds that inventory fluctuations are largely attributable to unexpected sales shocks, and that firms …, contrary to the finding of Kashyap, Lamont, and Stein (1994) that inventory investment is liquidity-constrained during …
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presented rejecting these models' specifications of how information asymmetry and inventory accumulation affect dealer pricing … through which dealer inventories evolve. This approach is consistent with inventory evolution data and with general …
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causes inventory imbalances. Previous work has argued that market makers change prices to manage incoming flows and offset … inventory imbalances. This study argues that they have multiple instruments, or ways to manage inventory imbalances and learn … about evolving asset values. Hence, they smooth inventory levels and update prior information about assets using multiple …
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This paper analyzes the stochastic inventory control problem when the demand distribution is not known. In contrast to … previous Bayesian inventory models, this paper adopts a non-parametric Bayesian approach in which the firm’s prior information …
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A comprehensive empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. We first present a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, based on a monopolistic competition trade model and 1994 cross-country data on trade...
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How does a commodity market adjust to a temporary scarcity shock which causes a shift in the slope of the futures price curve? We find long-run relationships between spot and futures prices, inventories and interest rates, which means that such shocks lead to an adjustment back towards a stable...
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In the United States and a few European countries, inventory behavior is mainly the outcome of demand shocks: a … characterizes inventory behavior. …
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