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[PDF] Using panel data to assess the bias in cross-sectional inferences of life-cycle changes in the level and composition of household wealth

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N Jianakoplos, P Menchik… - 1989 - nber.org
The purpose of this paper is to confront the issue of the bias engendered by using cross-
sectional data sets to estimate time-series relations. We focus on two issues:(1) the extent to
which inferences about how the level of wealth changes as households age drawn from a ...
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Retail inventory investment and the cost of capital

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FO Irvine - The American Economic Review, 1981 - JSTOR
Theoretically, the level of inventory a firm desires to hold depends on the costs associated
with holding the inventory.'Yet most studies of inventory investment in recent years have
ignored the possible dependence of target inventory levels on inventory carrying costs. 2 ...
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Inventory investment and output volatility

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FO Irvine… - International Journal of Production Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper reports the results of a detailed examination of the hypothesis that improved
inventory management and production techniques are responsible for the decline in the
volatility of US GDP growth. Our innovations are to look at the data at a finer level of ...
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[PDF] Simultaneous estimation of the supply and demand for housing location in a multizoned metropolitan area

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K Bradbury, R Engle, O Irvine… - 1977 - nber.org
In this chapter we report on work-in-progress of a research project designed to model the
growth and internal composition of the Boston metropolitan area, and the location of
household and business activities there. The overall model is an interlocking system of ...
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An optimal middleman firm price adjustment policy: the" short-run inventory-based pricing policy."

I Owen - Economic Inquiry, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
* Wesleyan University. This paper is based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation in economics
submitted to MIT in September, 1976. The author would like to thank his thesis advisors,
Stan Fischer and Paul Joskow, his colleagues, John Bonin and Gary Yohe, the ...
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Merchant wholesaler inventory investment and the cost of capital

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FO Irvine - The American Economic Review, 1981 - JSTOR
We know from economic theory that the level of inventory a firm desires to hold should be
inversely related to the per unit cost of holding the inventory. However, this theoretical
relationship has generally eluded empirical verification. Following the repeated failures of ...
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Long term trends in US inventory to sales ratios

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FO Irvine - International Journal of Production Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
In contrast to earlier studies, we find that inventory holding in the US has become much
more efficient since the mid-1980s. This result is found by examining trends in fixed weight
aggregate inventory to sales ratios rather than traditional inventory to sales ratios, whose ...
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Econometric Tests of the Hypothesis that Market-Maker Firms Follow a" Short-Run Inventory-Based Pricing Policy"

FO Irvine Jr - Journal of Business, 1980 - JSTOR
This paper presents the results of an econometric study of the pricing behavior of a retail
department store over time. Over the long run, variations in the level of operating costs are
shown to be the major determinant of the store's margin over the wholesale cost of the ...
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Demand equations for individual new car models estimated using transaction prices with implications for regulatory issues

FO Irvine Jr - Southern Economic Journal, 1983 - JSTOR
The economic impact of the automobile industry on the US economy hardly needs to be
emphasized.'Taking into account related and" feeder" industries (such as rubber, steel, zinc)
it has been estimated that one business in six is automobile related. Over the last 20 years ...
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[CITATION] The Influence of Capital Costs on Inventory Investment: Timeseries Evidence for a Department Store

FO Irvine - Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 1981
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Saving behavior of older households: Rate-of-return, precautionary and inheritance effects

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NA Jianakoplos, PL Menchik… - Economics Letters, 1996 - Elsevier
We estimate a model of household saving behavior using data from a panel of men nearing
retirement age. We seek and find statistically significant rate-of-return, precautionary and
intergenerational-transfer effects embedded within a retirement-consumption life-cycle ...
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Intrafirm inventory policy: theory and tests

FO Irvine Jr - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1984 - JSTOR
Inventory-to-sales ratios vary considerably across different lines-of-goods. In the department
store studied here these ratios range from 2.32 to 8.17 months of sales. To explain these
differences a model of a competitive store operating under uncertainty is developed. The ...
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[CITATION] Specification errors and the stock-adjustment model: why estimated speeds-of-adjustment are too slow in inventory equations

FO Irvine - Working Paper Series/Economic Activity Section, 1981 - econpapers.repec.org
... Specification errors and the stock-adjustment model: why estimated speeds-of-adjustment are
too slow in inventory equations. F. Owen Irvine. No 14, Working Paper Series / Economic Activity
Section from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US). ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming. Simultaneous estimation of the supply and demand for household location in a multi-zoned metropolitan area

K Bradbury, R Engle, O Irvine… - 1975 - NBER studies in income and wealth, …
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[CITATION] Household precautionary savings as an alternative to government income-maintenance programs

N Jianakoplos, FO Irvine… - Unpublished paper, Michigan State University, 1986
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Trend breaks in US inventory to sales ratios

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FO Irvine - International Journal of Production Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper documents econometrically that US Inventory to Sales Ratios have time trends
and that there have been significant breaks in these time trends at both the aggregate and
industry level. Using techniques developed by Bai (Rev. Econ. Stat.(1997) 551) and by ...
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Problems with using traditional aggregate inventory to sales ratios

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FO Irvine - International Journal of Production Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
Changes in traditionally constructed aggregate inventory to sales ratios are shown to not
necessarily measure changes in underlying subsector inventory behavior. This is because
while traditionally constructed aggregate inventory to sales ratios can be viewed as the ...
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[CITATION] Specification Errors and the Stock—adjustment Model: Why Speeds o Adjustment are Too Slow in Inventory Equations

FO Irvine - The Economics of Inventory Management, Amsterdam: …, 1988
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[CITATION] Inventory investment and business cycles in the United Kingdom

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FO Irvine - Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1989 - ideas.repec.org
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Interest sensitivity and volatility reductions: Cross-section evidence

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FO Irvine… - International Journal of Production Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
As has been widely observed, the volatility of GDP has declined since the mid-1980s
compared to the prior years. One leading explanation of this decline is that monetary policy
significantly improved in the later period. We utilize a cross-section of 2-digit ...
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Did financial deregulation help consumers? Access to market-yield instruments

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NA Jianakoplos… - Applied Economics, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
US financial deregulation was theoretically supposed to help consumers by making it
possible for a larger number of households to earn a market (unregulated) rate of interest on
their savings. Empirical evidence is presented which shows that by 1983 only one quarter ...
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Sales persistence and the reduction in GDP volatility

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FO Irvine - International Journal of Production Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
A number of explanations for the observed decline in GDP volatility since the mid-1980s
have been offered. Valerie Ramey and Daniel Vine (2003a, 2003b) in a couple of recent
papers offer the hypothesis that a decline in the persistence of sales is an explanation for ...
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Direct tests of the hypothesis that expectations are rational

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FO Irvine - International Journal of Production Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper uses the quarterly nominal sales forecasts from the “Manufacturers'
Inventory and Sales Expectations Survey” conducted by the US Commerce Department from
1961 to 1976 and tests whether they are consistent with the rational expectations ...
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[CITATION] The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth

NA Jianakopolos, PL Menchik, FO Irvine, RE Lipsey… - 1989 - University of Chicago Press
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[CITATION] A study of markets and the inventory and pricing policies of market-maker firms

FO Irvine Jr - unpublished doctoral dissertation, MIT, 1976
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The real rate of interest, for whom?

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FO Irvine Jr - Applied Economics, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
The ex ante'general real rate of interest'is traditionally defined to be the nominal interest rate
minus the expected rate of inflation (Dornbusch and Fischer, 1978). Now suppose, for
example, an increased rate of world population growth leads to a more rapidly growing ...
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[CITATION] AN ECONOMETRIC MODEL OP TAIWAN WITH POPULATION POLICY VARIABLES

K Chu, T Seaks, J Wall… - … of the Social …, 1971 - American Statistical Association.
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Models of sales expectations

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FO Irvine - Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract Economists modeling firm-decisions generally have to assume that the firms form
their expectations according to some hypothesis. Recently it has been fashionable to
assume rational expectations, whereas earlier researchers used a variety of simpler ...
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Inventory Investment and Output Volatility

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Abstract: This paper reports the results of a detailed examination of the hypothesis that
improved inventory management and production techniques are responsible for the decline
in the volatility of US GDP growth. Our innovations are to look at the data at a finer level of ...

[CITATION] m ECONOMETRIC EXPLANATION OF WHY SPEEDS-OF-ADJUSTMENT ARE UNDERESTIMATED IN INVENTORY EQUATIONS

FO IRVINE JR - New results in inventory research: proceedings of the …, 1984 - Elsevier
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[CITATION] The Economics of Inventory Management, edited by A. Chikan and MC Lovell Elsevier Science Publishers BV, Amsterdam, 1988-Printed inThe …

FO IRVINE - … : a selection of papers presented at the …, 1988 - Elsevier Publishing Company
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[CITATION] The response of inventories to inflation and interest rate fluctuations, a critique and survey

FO Irvine - Working Paper Series/Economic Activity Section, 1980 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. The response of inventories to inflation and interest rate
fluctuations, a critique and survey. F. Owen Irvine. No 10, Working Paper Series / Economic Activity
Section from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US). Date: 1980. ...
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[CITATION] Automobile demand by size, class and gasoline conservation

FO Irvine - Working Paper Series/Economic Activity Section, 1980 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Automobile demand by size, class and gasoline
conservation. F. Owen Irvine. No 7, Working Paper Series / Economic Activity Section from
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US). Date: 1980. ...
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[CITATION] Test of the rationality and accuracy of manufacturers' sales expectations

FO Irvine - Working Paper Series/Economic Activity Section, 1980 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Empirical evidence on the formation of sales expectations by manufacturers

FO Irvine - Working Paper Series/Economic Activity Section, 1981 - ideas.repec.org
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