The Resurgence of Inventory Research: What Have We Learned?

Alan Blinder and Louis Maccini ()

Journal of Economic Surveys, 1991, vol. 5, issue 4, 291-328

Abstract: Recent empirical and theoretical research on business inventories is surveyed and critically evaluated. While most inventory research has had macroeconomic motivations, the authors focus on its microtheoretic basis and on potential conflicts between theory and evidence. The paper asks two principal questions. First, how can inventories, which are allegedly used by firms to stabilize production, nonetheless be a destabilizing factor at the macroeconomic level? Second, why, if firms are following the production-smoothing model, is production more variable than sales in many industries? They suggest that the so-called (S,s) model may help answer both questions. Copyright 1991 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Date: 1991
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