Showing 1 - 10 of 44
We review and interpret recent work on inventories, emphasizing empirical and business cycle aspects. We begin by documenting two empirical regularities about inventories. The first is the well-known one that inventories move procyclically. The second is that inventory movements are quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472499
comparison purposes, the analogous results under conditions of full price flexibility after these shocks are realized. Sections 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478692
The simplest macroeconomic models in which markets clear instantaneously, and expectations are rational preclude the existence of "business cycles," that is, of serially correlated deviations of output from trend. This paper studies one of several mechanisms that can be used to make these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478767
seeks to preserve its financial flexibility by prudently managing its leverage and investment. Paradoxically, it is the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479326
We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short …- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work … remotely, plays a central role in determining firms' employment plans during the health crisis; ii) investment flexibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938715
In addition to providing useful skills, education may also yield valuable information about one's tastes and talents. This paper exploits an exogenous difference in the timing of academic specialization within the British system of higher education to test whether education provides such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463127
The fraction of newly-originated mortgages that are of the adjustable-rate (ARM) versus the fixed-rate (FRM) type exhibits a surprising amount of time variation. A simple utility framework of mortgage choice points to the bond risk premium as theoretical determinant: when the bond risk premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465289
flexibility is mainly driven by movers and short tenure workers. The cross-country comparison suggests that the relatively high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465626
, Chile and Colombia are more flexible than Mexico and Venezuela. The difference in flexibility among these economies is …, especially when accumulated shocks are substantial. We also study the path of flexibility in Chile and show that it declined in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468295
alter the standard real options results, with the financial flexibility conferred by internal funds acting as a complement …, and at times as a substitute, to the real flexibility given by the optimal timing of investment. We show that: 1) the … be convex in liquidity) due to the interaction between financial and real (growth/abandonment) flexibility; 3) with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458055