The long‐run implications of the production smoothing model of inventories: An empirical test
库存生产平滑模型的长期含义:一项实证检验
Abstract This paper provides an empirical test of the long‐run implications of the production smoothing model of inventories, the dominant framework for inventory investment research in the past. Intertemporal models of a firm holding inventories of finished goods predict a long‐run relationship between inventories, shipments, factor input prices, and the real interest rate which is tested here using cointegration test procedures. These tests provide little support for the…