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An Empirical Study of the Bullwhip Effect in China
Author(s) -
Shan Jun,
Yang Shitao,
Yang Shilei,
Zhang Jin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/poms.12034
Subject(s) - bullwhip effect , china , volatility (finance) , econometrics , stock (firearms) , r&d intensity , proxy (statistics) , business , economics , marketing , statistics , mathematics , supply chain , mechanical engineering , management , political science , law , engineering , supply chain management
In this study, we investigate the bullwhip effect in China using data on over 1200 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2002 to 2009. Specifically, we estimate the ratio of the volatility of production to the volatility of demand as a proxy for the bullwhip effect. Our results show that more than two‐thirds of the companies we studied exhibit the bullwhip effect. We also find that several hypotheses proposed in the existing literature are supported by firm‐level data from China, and that the intensity of the bullwhip effect in China declined during the period from 2002 to 2009.