Booms and Slumps in World Commodity Prices /

This paper examines the duration and magnitude of commodity-price cycles. It finds that for most commodities, price slumps last longer than price booms. How far prices fall in a slump is found to be slightly larger than how far they rebound in a subsequent boom. There is little evidence of a consist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDermott, C.
Other Authors: Cashin, Paul, Scott, Alasdair
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/155
Online Access:Full text available on IMF