The Decisions of Firms: Modeling and Applying Measures of Markups, Inventory Accumulation and Advertising

这是一个职业发展奖，由研究基金资助。 妇女机会方案。 该奖项将使 研究人员将她的研究活动从相对 应用生产理论的狭窄领域，并将她的专业知识应用于 更广泛地考虑公司行为和业绩， 市场环境和国家。 具体而言，该项目将 包括研究价格上涨行为和公司决策 关于库存投资和广告。 这三方面 企业行为对所观察到的经济 行业和国家的业绩，无论是在其影响方面， 生产力和能力等指标的实际趋势 利用率，以及措施的适当性 用来代表这些趋势。 企业行为及其对 将分析和比较 美国，加拿大和日本。

This is a Career Advancement Award funded under the Research Opportunities for Women Program. This award will allow the investigator to expand her research activities from the relatively narrow area of applied production theory, and to apply her expertise to the wider consideration of firm behavior and performance in different market contexts and countries. More specifically, this project will involve studying price markup behavior and firm decision-making regarding inventory investment and advertising. These three aspects of firm behavior have important impacts on the observed economic performance of industries and countries, both in terms of their impacts on the actual trends of indicators, such as productivity and capacity utilization, and also in terms of the appropriateness of the measures used to represent these trends. Firm behavior and the implications for overall economic performance will be analyzed and compared for the U.S., Canada, and Japan.