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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299647703321

Autore

Chikán Attila

Titolo

Inventories in National Economies : A Cross-Country Analysis of Macroeconomic Data / / by Attila Chikán, Erzsébet Kovács, Zsolt Matyusz, Magdolna Sass, Péter Vakhal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

1-4471-7371-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages)

Disciplina

339.0151135

Soggetti

Macroeconomics

Engineering economics

Engineering economy

Mathematical models

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: The nature and structure of the inventory problem -- Chapter 2: Review of the literature -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- Chapter 4: Analysis of inventory behaviour of OECD countries -- Chapter 5: Stability of macroeconomic variables -- Chapter 6: Inventory developments in individual countries -- Chapter 7: Summary and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces a new approach in the field of macroeconomic inventory studies: the use of multivariate statistics to evaluate long-term characteristics of inventory investments in developed countries. By analyzing a 44-year period series of annual inventory change in percentage of GDP in a set of OECD countries, disclosing their relationship to growth, industry structure and alternative uses of GDP (fixed capital investments, foreign trade and consumption), it fills a gap in the economic literature. It is generally accepted that inventories play an important role in all levels of the economy. However, while there is extensive literature on micro- (and even item-) level inventory



problems, macroeconomic inventory studies are scarce. Both the long-term processes of inventory formation and their correlation with other macroeconomic factors provide interesting conclusions about economic changes and policies in our immediate past, and present important insights for the future.