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We examine the role of inventories and capacity utilization (of both capital and labor) for the propagation of business … cycle fluctuations. We document a new set of facts regarding the U.S. cyclical regularities of inventories and capacity … comove with the holdings of inventories. Second, we find that labor utilization is procyclical as well, but is weakly …
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demand shocks. This hypothesis seems to be a good framework to account for inventories fluctuations. We find some evidence …
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The aim of this paper is the identification of structural shocks which affect the dynamics of sectoral inventories … French time series of aggregate production, sectoral production and sectoral inventories. The results are similar for both … become significant. Conversely, sectoral inventories are influenced in the short run by the idiosyncratic demand shock and in …
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In Japan, like many other industrialized countries, output volatility declined dramatically in the 1980s. In order to investigate the cause of this decline, we decompose the variance of output growth by frequency. Our important findings are: (1) The total variance of output growth decreased,...
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changes in inventories. We then present evidence of the importance of cross border production chains for the economies of CEE …
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