The Myth of Comoving Commodity Prices /

There is a common perception that the prices of unrelated commodities move together. This paper re-examines this notion, using a measure of comovement of economic time series called concordance. Concordance measures the proportion of time that the prices of two commodities are concurrently in the sa...

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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. 1999/169
Online Access:Full text available on IMF