The Long-Run Implications of the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories: An Empirical Test

Robert Rossana ()

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1993, vol. 8, issue 3, 295-306

Abstract: This paper provides an empirical test of the long-run implications of the production smoothing model of inventories, the dominant framework for inventory investment research in the past. Intertemporal models of a firm holding inventories of finished goods predict a long-run relationship between inventories, shipments, factor input prices, and the real interest rate which is tested here using cointegration test procedures. These tests provide little support for the predictions of the production smoothing model. In most of the data sets used, test statistics indicate that inventories, shipments, factor input prices, the nominal interest rate, and the inflation rate maintain a long-run equilibrium relationship but parameter estimates of cointegrating vectors are often implausible, typically rejecting hypotheses implied by structural models of the production smoothing motive for holding inventories. Copyright 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1993
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