Interactions Between the Seasonal and Business Cycles in Production and Inventories

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 884-892

  Cecchetti, Stephen G ^a,b   Kashyap, Anil K ^c   Wilcox, David W ^d  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Division of Monetary Affairs   (United States)

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