through which dealer inventories evolve. This approach is consistent with inventory evolution data and with general …

Analyzing disaggregate data on inventories and sales from the U.S. manufacturing and trade sector between 1960 and 1997 …

infrequently and hold substantially larger inventories of imported goods than domestic goods. Using multiple sources of data, we …

industrial organization that studies incentives for vertical controls largely ignores the effect of inventories. Does the ability … to carry inventory influence the problem of vertical control? Conversely, can inventories arise purely due to incentive … effects? This paper explicitly considers both incentives and inventories, and their interplay, in a dynamic model of an …

argue that the stage of fabrication of inventories can affect the incentives to offer and take up trade credit, an important …