1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour … labour market and empirical analysis of the hours and wage adjustment processes. Quantitative work is based on cell data from …

future firm profitability between issuers and non-issuers. In sum, relative differences in inventories investment … to capital. Results from examining components of inventories: raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods are not …

and inventories. These analyses contribute to the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm literature. Specifically, the … inventories, is explored in great detail.The first essay is motivated by the ambiguity of prior research on the relationship … essay analyzes the impact of firm distress on firm inventories and investigates if this relationship is impacted by a firm …

during which the stored product is sold out of inventories. This paper develops an economic model ofoptimal inventory …

equilibrium framework, of the role of inventories and capacity utilization (of both capital and labor) and, in particular … analysis of the association between inventories and capital utilization seems natural, for physical capital could beseen as a … stock ultimately destined to be transformed into an inventory of finishedgoods. In the same way, inventories could be seen …

introducing new products and services, they enhance competition in existing markets, and they create employment.Indeed, the main … driver for productivity growth and net employment growth is a small group of high-potential start-ups, called gazelles, which … and firms’ employment growth.Several firm-specific, founder-specific and industry-specific factors have been identified to …