Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms

Ngoc Thuy Mai, Jung-Fa Tsai and Dien Giau Bui

Applied Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 32, issue 3, 435-440

Abstract: We hypothesize that firms holding more inventory before the pandemic can perform better during the pandemic year in 2020. We collect all listed firms from Taiwan Stock Exchange and test this hypothesis. We find supportive evidence that pre-Covid inventory stockpiling is valuable and can help firms perform better during the pandemic. High inventory-holding firms will have a higher return on equity and return on assets during the pandemic. The economic significance is also non-trivial. Our study thus contributes to understanding how the pandemic can affect corporate business and what lessons we can learn from this pandemic.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2023.2274301

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