Incorporating inventories into supply and demand analysis

Sexton, Robert L. and Clower, Robert W. and Graves, Philip E. and Lee, Dwight R. (1992): Incorporating inventories into supply and demand analysis. Published in: Atlantic Economic Journal , Vol. 20, No. 4 : pp. 41-45.

Abstract

While the paper lacks a formal abstract, it draws the important distinction between stocks and flows in supply and demand to better understand the business cycle.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Inventories; supply and demand; business cycles; stocks versus flows
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models

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