Inventory in mainland China: Historical, industry, and geographic perspectives

David J. Robb, Fei Liu, Richard Lai and Z. Justin Ren

International Journal of Production Economics, 2012, vol. 135, issue 1, 440-450

Abstract: We review inventories in mainland China by evaluating the trajectory of aggregate inventories in recent decades, and then modelling the relationship of inventories in some 300,000 manufacturers with respect to volume (using cost of goods sold), industry (using SIC codes), and geographical location (using the 31 regions of China). We find that inventories generally exhibit economies of scale (in terms of cost of goods sold) in all but one industry (tobacco), and differ widely by province, with relatively high inventories in remote regions.

Keywords: Inventory; China; Empirics in Operations Management; Economic Geography; Industry Effects; Multivariate Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.08.020

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