inventories: materials (input) inventories facilitate the production of finished goods, while finished goods (output) inventories … cyclicality of inventory investment and inventory-to-target ratios. Although inventories are an important element of the model … parameters associated with inventories play a minor role in reducing the volatility of output. …

This paper introduces inventories in an otherwise standard Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model (DSGE) of the … business cycle. Firms accumulate inventories to facilitate sales, but face a cost of doing so in terms of costly storage of … intermediate goods. The paper's main contribution is to present a DSGE model with inventories that is estimated using Bayesian …

This paper introduces inventories in an otherwise standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Firms … accumulate inventories to facilitate sales, but face a cost of doing so in terms of costly storage of intermediate goods. Based … inventory dynamics has a significant impact on parameter estimates and the following analyses. We find that inventories enter …

materials, for both production as well as for inventories. The more detailed treatment of inventory holdings offers new insights …