It's tough enough for a small business to survive in a down economy, to say nothing of achieving hoped-for growth by opening additional locations, expanding a product line or targeting new markets.

Aggregate planning accounts for all resources a company has to meet projected demands. The balance of inventory, labor, demand and variations in demand can save money. The planner must use a time ...

What explains the sharp decline in U.S. employment from 2007 to 2009? Why has employment remained stubbornly low? Survey data from the National Federation of Independent Businesses show that the ...

It has been more than 80 years since the beginning of the Keynesian revolution in economics with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936.

Acting together, countries, companies and international initiatives can harmonise standards, aggregate demand and mobilise finance in ways that are nearly impossible to achieve in isolation, accordi.

This paper explores the relative role of aggregate demand and supply shocks in affecting the output level and inflation rate in a low-income country vulnerable to various economic shocks. The study ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Using zip code-level data and nonparametric estimation, I present eight stylized facts on the US housing market in the ...

We develop a new approach using market-level data to model, identify, and estimate a dynamic discrete choice demand model for durable goods with continuous unobserved product-specific state variables.

Economists tell us that controlled inflation is a sign of economic growth. Central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, actually set monetary policy to maintain a consistent inflation rate of ...