Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207282 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7891
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the effects of news shocks on inventory accumulation in a structural VAR framework. We establish that inventories react strongly and positively to news about future increases in total factor productivity. Theory suggests that the transmission channel of news shocks to inventories works through movements in marginal costs, through movements in sales, or through interest rates. We provide evidence that changes in external and internal rates of return are central to the transmission for such news shocks. We do not find evidence of a strong substitution effect that shifts production from the present into the future.
Subjects: 
structural VAR
news shocks
inventories
JEL: 
C32
E22
E32
G31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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