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The principles underlying the recording of changes in inventories are explained in the System of National Accounts … techniques and their underlying assumptions for calculating changes in inventories and holding gains when only data on stocks of … inventories are available. Several data situations are considered. The authors propose methods for measuring changes in …
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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 liquidity-constrained in most periods during 1975-97, but less so, or not at all, during recessions. This result can be justified on the grounds that inventory fluctuations are...
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through which dealer inventories evolve. This approach is consistent with inventory evolution data and with general …
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Market makers learn about asset values as they set intraday prices and absorb portfolio flows. Absorbing these flows 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...
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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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curve? We find long-run relationships between spot and futures prices, inventories and interest rates, which means that such … inventories are used to absorb the shock. Importantly, the pace and nature of the adjustment depends upon whether inventories were …
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-stock model where supply shocks dominate. In contrast to the United States, inventories boost growth with a one-year lag in Europe …. Moreover, inventories provide limited information to improve growth forecasts particularly when a modified buffer-stock model …
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Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in part reflecting inventory demand) have no effect on commodity prices. China’s impact on...
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