Previous studies show that firms with low inventory growth outperform firms with high inventory growth in the cross-section of publicly traded firms. In addition, inventory investment is volatile and procyclical, and inventory-to-sales is persistent and countercyclical. We embed an inventory...

The standard literature concerning intertemporal optimization in international finance is based upon certainty equivalence, and ignores risk and uncertainty. It therefore is not helpful concerning risk management and evaluation of the risk involved in the holding of international short-term...

Is it really possible to control for the downside risk when the market environment is in constant evolution? If so, what would be the long-term growth prospects of such a strategy? We show in this article that when the dynamics of the variance and correlation terms are properly taken into...