-financial firms for the period 1997–2007. Trade credit policy and inventory policy are measured by number of days accounts … receivable, number of days of inventory and number of days accounts payable. The result shows that shortening the CCC improves …

Prior studies contend that an unexpected increase in inventory reflects a firm's difficulty in generating sales and …-2005, we confirm the negative relation between inventory changes and firm performance but find that the relation is sensitive … industry as well as for firms that normally carry low levels of inventory. Our findings suggest that the macroeconomic and …

Households tend to hold substantial amounts of non-financial assets in the form of inventory. Households can obtain … this inventory management. We demonstrate that households earn high returns from inventory management at low levels of … inventory, though returns decline rapidly as inventory levels increase. We provide evidence using scanner and survey data that …

Households tend to hold substantial amounts of non-financial assets in the form of inventory. Households can obtain … this inventory management. We demonstrate that households earn high returns from inventory management at low levels of … inventory, though returns decline rapidly as inventory levels increase. We provide evidence using scanner and survey data that …