Filardo, Andrew J. - In: Economic Review (1995) Q II, pp. 27-43
Inventories play an important role in business cycles. Inventory build-ups add momentum to the economy during … inventories in shaping the current outlook for the U.S. economy is particularly uncertain. In the early 1990s, inventory swings … inventory control practices, they believed, were permanently diminishing the role of inventories in the business cycle. Yet …