Abstract

In a four-digit panel of American manufacturing firms, inventory accumulation and total factor productivity growth are negatively related, i.e. inventories are depleted when productivity growth is high. This is suggestive of a macroeconomic model of demand shocks in the presence of labor hoarding.

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