Inventory change, capacity utilization and the semiconductor industry cycle

Economic Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-127

  Liu, Wen Hsien ^a   Chung, Ching Fan ^b,d   Chang, Kuang Liang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacity utilization; Industry cycle; Inventory; Markov regime switching model; Semiconductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871735895     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.11.027     Document Type: Article

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