Chapter 13 Inventories

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 1999, Pages 863-923

  Ramey, Valerie A ^a   West, Kenneth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

E22; E32

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956753212     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10021-1     Document Type: Review

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