The paper considers the problem of autonomous recessions in the Russian economy, which are explained as a drop of the output caused by endogenous shocks of the supply and/or demand. In order to determine possible factors of the autonomous recession we consider the stylized facts and other...

The paper presents an analysis of the efficiency of inventory management in feed enterprises in groups of inventories and cross-sized enterprises. Resources to realize objective pursued originated from the financial statements 55 feed production plant operating in Poland in 2005-2011. The study...

The present paper provides a substantial re-conceptualization of the serial clearing of the product market on the basis of structural axioms. This change of premises is required simply because from the accustomed premises only the accustomed conclusions can be derived and these are known to be...

At the end of 2008, a massive and worldwide drawdown of inventories contributed to the strong contraction in international trade and activity. This movement was no doubt exacerbated by the financial constraints on companies and the transmission of the shock along globalised production chains....

Inventory fluctuations play an important role in the formation of business cycles. In Germany, little research has been dedicated to this topic recently. In this study, a structural time series model in the tradition of Harvey (1989) is employed to decompose German inventory investment into...

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...