(S,s) Inventory Policies in General Equilibrium
FRB Richmond Working Paper No. 97-7
53 Pages Posted: 19 Nov 2012
There are 2 versions of this paper
(S,s) Inventory Policies in General Equilibrium
(S, S) Inventory Policies in General Equilibrium
Date Written: February 1, 1998
Abstract
We study the aggregate implications of (S,s) inventory policies in a dynamic general equilibrium model with aggregate uncertainty. Firms in the model's retail sector face idiosyncratic demand risk, and (S,s) inventory policies are optimal because of fixed order costs. The distribution of inventory holdings affects the aggregate outcome in two ways: variation in the decision to order and variation in the rate of sale through the pricing decisions of retailers. We find that both mechanisms must operate to reconcile observations that orders are more volatile than, and inventory investment is positively correlated with, sales, while remaining consistent with other salient business cycle characteristics. The model exhibits strong amplification for some shocks, and persistence to a limited extent.
Keywords: Inventories, Business Cycles, Search, Matching
JEL Classification: E10, E22, E32
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
By Valerie A. Ramey and Kenneth D. West
-
What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles
By Mark Bils and James A. Kahn
-
What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles
By Mark Bils and James A. Kahn
-
The Production and Inventory Behavior of the American Automobile Industry
-
Can the Production Smoothing Model of Inventory Behavior Be Saved?
-
A Variance Bounds Test of the Linear Quardractic Inventory Model
-
Inventories and the Business Cycle: An Equilibrium Analysis of (S,S) Policies
By Aubhik Khan and Julia K. Thomas