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This Economics Research Note examines inventories in the business cycle for Australia covering the period since the mid … 1980s. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines inventories as all materials etc., work in progress and finished …
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economists and the business community. Phenomena such as price setting, unpredictable and variable demand, and inventories and …
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What is the role of inventories in UK manufacturing? We present and estimate a model of inventories that considers … separately finished goods and input (i.e. the sum of raw materials and work-in-process) inventories. We estimate structural … parameters which allows us to make inferences on the role of inventories in cyclical frequencies. Our results suggest that both …
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Recent national and international regulatory reforms (e.g. U.S. FAIR and other GATT compliance reforms) in agricultural markets has led some observers to wonder whether the private sector is able to produce a level of price volatility that is socially acceptable. In this paper, we examine the...
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While the paper lacks a formal abstract, it draws the important distinction between stocks and flows in supply and demand to better understand the business cycle.
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, Inventories. This article presents a closer look of standard (objective, scope, definitions, measurement and disclosures. …
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This paper investigates the influence of inventories in explaining the magnitude of price transmission. The empirical … influence of inventories on price transmission. The procedure detects significant non-linearities and suggests that the price … transmission elasticity is increasing in the level of the farm price and decreasing in the ratio of inventories to sales. This …
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resulting (factor demand) model with inventories leads to more efficient estimation results and normalisation rules become even … redundant. Furthermore, the (smoothing) role of inventories with respect to production factors is discussed. …
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to stochastic price fluctuations. Our framework accounts for how inventories and expectations of future prices affect …
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I analyze a model with heterogeneous investors who have incorrect beliefs about fundamentals. Investors think that they are right at first, but over time realize that they are wrong. The speed of the realization depends on investor confidence in own beliefs and arrival of new information. The...
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