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Why Do Real and Nominal Inventory-Sales Ratios Have Different Trends

Valerie A. Ramey, Daniel J. Vine

NBER Working Paper No. 10703*
Issued in August 2004
NBER Program(s):   EFG    ME

This note explains the diverging trends between real and nominal aggregate inventory-sales ratios. The combined effect of two features of the data explains the divergence. First, while aggregate sales include both goods and services, inventories include only goods. Second, there has been a strong secular decrease in the relative price of goods. The combination of these two factors causes the real and nominal aggregate inventory-sales ratios to have different trends.

*Published: Ramey, Valerie A. and Daniel J. Vine. "Why Do Real And Nominal Inventory-Sales Rations Have Different Trends?," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2004, v36(5,Oct), 959-963.

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