NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Orders, Production, and Investment: A Cyclical and Structural Analysis

Victor Zarnowitz

Published in 1973 by NBER
in NBER Book Series Studies in Business Cycles

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0785 pages
ISBN: 0-870-14215-1

Table of Contents

Front matter, Orders, Production, and Investment --a Cyclical and Structural Analysis. (p. -28 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction . (p. 1 - 6) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. The Role of Orders in Industrial Production. (p. 7 - 69) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Size and Frequency of Fluctuations. (p. 70 - 128) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Timing Comparisons. (p. 129 - 174) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Regression Analysis. (p. 175 - 242) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Unfilled Orders and Industrial Activity. (p. 243 - 295) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Unfilled Orders, Delivery Periods, and Price Changes. (p. 296 - 343) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Orders, Production, and Inventory Investment. (p. 344 - 408) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Indicators and Stages of Investment in Plant and Equipment. (p. 409 - 463) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Factors Influencing Investment Commitments and Realizations. (p. 464 - 520) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Cyclical Conformity and Timing. (p. 521 - 587) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Patterns and Diffusion of Cyclical Movements. (p. 588 - 640) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Main Results and Conclusions. (p. 641 - 648) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Appendix A: Time Series on Orders, Shipments, Production, and Inventories. (p. 649 - 668) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Appendix B: Supplementary Measures of Timing: Standard and Poor's Data. (p. 669 - 682) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Appendix C: Price Deflators for Selected Manufacturing Industries. (p. 683 - 686) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. Appendix D: Average Monthly Percentage Amplitudes and Related Measures for New Orders, Production, and Shipments: Additional Evidence. (p. 687 - 692) (bibliographic info) (download)

17. Appendix E: New Orders and Shipments for Industrial Subdivisions, 1948-62. (p. 693 - 712) (bibliographic info) (download)

18. Appendix F: Export Orders and Shipments. (p. 713 - 717) (bibliographic info) (download)

19. Appendix G: Regressions of Shipments on New Orders: First Results Based on Data for 1948-58. (p. 718 - 726) (bibliographic info) (download)

20. Appendix H: Notes on Some Theoretical Aspects of Variable Delivery Periods. (p. 727 - 731) (bibliographic info) (download)

21. Appendix I: On Some Recent Studies of Industry Output-Order-Inventory Relations. (p. 732 - 740) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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