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Orders, Production, and Investment: A Cyclical and Structural Analysis
Victor Zarnowitz
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Published Date
January 1973
Copyright
1973
ISBN
0-87014-215-1
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: Studies in Business Cycles
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Table of Contents
Front matter to Orders, Production, and Investment: A Cyclical and Structural Analysis
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
Chapter 1:
Introduction
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Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 1-6)
Chapter 2:
The Role of Orders in Industrial Production
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Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 7-69)
Chapter 3:
Size and Frequency of Fluctuations
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Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 70-128)
Chapter 4:
Timing Comparisons
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Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 129-174)
Chapter 5:
Regression Analysis
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Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 175-242)
Chapter 6:
Unfilled Orders and Industrial Activity
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(p. 243-295)
Chapter 7:
Unfilled Orders, Delivery Periods, and Price Changes
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(p. 296-343)
Chapter 8:
Orders, Production, and Inventory Investment
Author(s):
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(p. 344-408)
Chapter 9:
Indicators and Stages of Investment in Plant and Equipment
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 409-463)
Chapter 10:
Factors Influencing Investment Commitments and Realizations
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 464-520)
Chapter 11:
Cyclical Conformity and Timing
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 521-587)
Chapter 12:
Patterns and Diffusion of Cyclical Movements
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 588-640)
Chapter 13:
Main Results and Conclusions
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 641-648)
Appendix A: Time Series on Orders, Shipments, Production, and Inventories
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 649-668)
Appendix B: Supplementary Measures of Timing: Standard and Poor's Data
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 669-682)
Appendix C: Price Deflators for Selected Manufacturing Industries
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 683-686)
Appendix D: Average Monthly Percentage Amplitudes and Related Measures for New Orders, Production, and Shipments: Additional Evidence
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 687-692)
Appendix E: New Orders and Shipments for Industrial Subdivisions, 1948–62
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 693-712)
Appendix F: Export Orders and Shipments
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 713-717)
Appendix G: Regressions of Shipments on New Orders: First Results Based on Data for 1948–58
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 718-726)
Appendix H: Notes on Some Theoretical Aspects of Variable Delivery Periods
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 727-731)
Appendix I: On Some Recent Studies of Industry Output-Order-Inventory Relations
Author(s):
Victor Zarnowitz
(p. 732-740)
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