affect private sector inventory levels? I develop as a baseline a substitution hypothesis, which predicts that infrastructure … reduces inventory. I also consider competing hypotheses that can explain negative correlation between infrastructure and … inventory. To empirically distinguish these hypotheses, I use data on public firms from 60 countries. The econometric challenge …

the market? I consider the example of inventory and fill rates. When the market sees a high-inventory firm, it cannot tell … whether the inventory is due to incompetence or a strategy to enhance fill rate. Firms might decide to signal their competence … to the market by carrying less inventory. I show conditions for separating and pooling perfect Bayesian equilibria. I …

assumption of non-increasing price-dependent demand. We show that the existence of retailer inventory between periods causes the …

. However, work with quantitative models is still scarce. This paper contributes by revisiting classical inventory methods …

exclude advertisers with a low willingness to pay and distort the price and inventory from their system-efficient levels to …

replenishment policy for this type of inventory system as well as base-stock policies and (R,s,S) policies. Furthermore, we derive …-up-to level. The procedures find values of the inventory control variables that are close to the best (R,s,S) policy and comply to …