The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) sponsors a session each year at the ASSA Meetings in January.  Historically, these sessions have focused exclusively on the topic of inventories.  At next year’s session, however, the focus will be expanded to include the related topics of business fixed investment and business cycles.

Jan. 3, 2:30 pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M105 – ISIR

Inventories, Investment and Aggregate Fluctuations (E2)

Presiding: AUBHIK KHAN (Ohio State University)

The Cross-section of Firms over the Business Cycle: New Facts and a DSGE Exploration
RUEDIGER BACHMANN (University of Michigan)
CHRISTIAN BAYER (IGIER, Universita Bocconi)

Estimating Firm-Level Risk
FRANCES GOURIO (Boston University)

Input and Output Inventories in the UK
JOHN D. TSOUKALAS (University of Nottingham)

Time-to-Build and the Seasonal Fluctuations
SATYAJIT CHATTERJEE (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
B. RAVIKUMAR (University of Iowa)
Registration details: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm
Preliminary program: http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/preliminary.php