. We show that prices tend to fall during the seasonal demand peak for a product and that changes in retail margins account … retailer pricing and advertising competition. Other models of imperfect competition are less consistent with retailer behavior …

second is that inventory movements are quite persistent, even conditional on sales. To consider explanations for the two … demand for the good in question, and that marginal production cost slopes up. The first explanation assumes as well that …, or some third, alternative provides a satisfactory explanation of inventory behavior. We suggest several directions for …

This paper has two purposes. One is to assess different models of inventory behavior in terms of their ability to well … inventory movements. We find that the basic production level smoothing model of inventories, augmented by buffer stock motives … inventory data …

Econometric aspects of recent research on inventory models are surveyed. The discussion emphasizes issues relevant to … instrumental variables estimation of a first order condition of the Holt et al. (1960) linear quadratic inventory model, including … paper also briefly discusses estimation of a decision rule implied by the model, and, finally, the impliations for inventory …

Reducing systemic liquidity risk related to seasonal swings in loan demand was one reason for the founding of the … extent of banks' ability to mitigate seasonal loan demand variation predict banks' decisions to join the Federal Reserve …

-rights approach to the theory of the firm, the same force that creates product cycles, i.e., incomplete contracts, opens the door to a …

commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …