Chapter 1: Introduction: The nature and structure of the inventory problem -- Chapter 2: Review of the literature -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- Chapter 4: Analysis of inventory behaviour of OECD countries -- Chapter 5: Stability of macroeconomic variables -- Chapter 6: Inventory developments in...

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...