Seasonality, Cost Shocks, and the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories
dc.contributor.author | Miron, Jeffrey A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zeldes, Stephen P. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-14T23:21:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-14T23:21:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | MichU DeptE CenREST W87-22 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | E220 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | E320 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | L600 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100882 | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the empirical behavior of inventories. A great deal of this research examines some variant of the production smoothing model of finished goods inventories. The overall assessment of this model that exists in the literature is quite negative: there is little evidence that manufacturers hold inventories of finished goods in order to smooth production patterns. This paper examines whether this negative assessment of the model is due to one or both of two features: costs shocks and seasonal fluctuations. The reason for considering costs shocks is that if firms are buffetted more by cost shocks than demand shocks, production should optimally be more variable than sales. The reasons for considering seasonal fluctuations are that seasonal fluctuations account for a major portion of the variance in production and sales, that seasonal fluctuations are precisely the kinds of fluctuations that producers should most easily smooth and that seasonally adjusted data is likely to produce spurious rejections of the production smoothing model even when it is correct. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Center for Research on Economic and Social Theory, Department of Economics, University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CREST Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject | Inventories | en_US |
dc.subject | Cost Shocks | en_US |
dc.subject | Seasonal Fluctuations | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Business Fluctuations | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cycles | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Capital | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Investment | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Capacity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | U.S. | en_US |
dc.title | Seasonality, Cost Shocks, and the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100882/1/ECON334.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Economics, Department of - Working Papers Series |
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