: in response to news about future increases in TFP, inventories rise and comove positively with other major macroeconomic … when extended to include inventories. To explain the empirical inventory behavior, we therefore develop a framework that …

This article studies inventories and monetary policy by estimating VAR models. The complex roots detected in our … production and inventories follow damped oscillations (stable sine curves), implying that a boom is the seed of the following … inventories, while booms after positive supply shocks are short-lived as the initial accumulation of inventories suppresses …

inventories react strongly and positively to news about future increases in total factor productivity. Theory suggests that the … transmission channel of news shocks to inventories works through movements in marginal costs, through movements in sales, or …