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| Foreword | p. 1 |
| Inventories in the National Economy | |
| Does levelling lead to shortages? An empirical test | p. 5 |
| Linear model for Bulgarian inventory investment between 1962 and 1985 | p. 13 |
| Inventories in the economy in transition | p. 19 |
| A test of the linear rational expectations equilibrium inventory model in the EEC | p. 25 |
| Using mixed frequency data to improve macroeconomic forecasts of inventory investment | p. 33 |
| Empirical estimation of three models of production and inventory behavior using monthly industry data | p. 43 |
| Direct tests of the hypothesis that expectations are rational | p. 49 |
| Short term inventory and employment interplay in Finnish manufacturing industry | p. 61 |
| Simulating a 100% Just-in-Time economy | p. 71 |
| The inventory investment equation: An empirical work using business survey data | p. 79 |
| Weather-induced instability in agricultural produce with respect to buffer stocks in India and Iran: An integrated optimisation and dynamic input-output model | p. 89 |
| Observation errors and inventory cycles | p. 99 |
| Inventories in macroeconomic fluctuations: The stylized facts | p. 107 |
| A comparison of the behavior of Japanese and US inventories | p. 115 |
| Inventory Management | |
| Simulation of inventory control systems | p. 125 |
| Electronic data interchange and inventories | p. 135 |
| Production lot sizing with work-in-process considerations in response to periodic demand | p. 145 |
| A simulation-based method to aid the improvement of manufacturing flexibility | p. 153 |
| Mixed model assembly simulation | p. 161 |
| Work in process: Performance measures | p. 169 |
| Simplicity, totality and change: A logistic viewpoint in inventory management | p. 173 |
| Relativity of the "new logistic technologies" and of their inventory aspects | p. 181 |
| A simulation study of bottleneck scheduling | p. 187 |
| The inventory investment decision and firm value: A conceptual framework | p. 193 |
| Stimulating the impact of process capability on lot sizes in batch manufacturing | p. 203 |
| Strategic inventory management of renewable energy resources. Aluminium as an energy storage medium and market commodity | p. 211 |
| An overview of the state and problems of inventory management in Finland | p. 217 |
| The relationship of work-in-process inventories, manufacturing lead times and waiting line analysis | p. 221 |
| A decision support system for materials management | p. 229 |
| Forming the material supply structure through the choice of the production cooperation range | p. 237 |
| Principal economic decisions of operational production management in Czechoslovak enterprises of electrotechnical industry | p. 243 |
| The system implications of pure manufacturing policy options | p. 247 |
| Hierarchical production planning and multi-echelon inventory management | p. 257 |
| Mathematical Modelling of Inventories | |
| Some issues on the modelling of incentives for special sales | p. 267 |
| Combinational optimization of the location-inventory problem | p. 273 |
| Perturbed inventory systems with delays | p. 277 |
| Heavy-traffic inventory-production systems | p. 283 |
| Performance optimization of a system through the transitive interaction between its sections | p. 293 |
| Order point/order quantity models with random yield | p. 297 |
| Controlled stochastic processes and inventories | p. 299 |
| Hypergame analysis of the stability of relationships between computerbased logistics systems | p. 303 |
| Intertemporal generalization of the relationship between material requirements planning and input-output analysis | p. 311 |
| Extension of a reliability-type inventory model to Just-in-Time systems | p. 319 |
| A stochastic inventory problem with piecewise quadratic costs | p. 327 |
| Single facility, multi-item lot sizing under Just-in-Time and "cyclic scheduling for improvement" | p. 333 |
| Average cost estimation of lot-sizing heuristics | p. 341 |
| Changing the givens in modelling inventory problems: The example of just-in-time systems | p. 347 |
| Minimum cost allocation of supply centers with limitation on time delivery | p. 353 |
| Multiple batch structures in throughput scheduling | p. 359 |
| Incremental order quantity for the case of very lumpy demand | p. 367 |
| List of Referees | p. 373 |
| Author Index | p. 374 |
| Title Index | p. 375 |
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