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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| مؤلفون آخرون: | , |
| التنسيق: | دورية |
| اللغة: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1999.
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| سلاسل: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1999/169 |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Full text available on IMF |
| الملخص: | 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 same boom period or same slump period. Using data on the prices of several unrelated commodities, the paper finds no evidence of comovement in commodity prices. The results carry an important policy implication, as the study provides no support for earlier claims of irrational trading behavior by participants in world commodity markets. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (20 pages) |
| التنسيق: | Mode of access: Internet |
| تدمد: | 1018-5941 |
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