The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices : Small Trends and Big Variability /
Using the longest dataset publicly available (The Economist's index of industrial commodity prices), we analyze the behavior of real commodity prices over the period 1862-99, and have two main findings. First, while there has been a downward trend in real commodity prices of 1.3 percent per yea...
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Formato: | Periódico |
Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2001.
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Colecção: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2001/068 |
Acesso em linha: | Full text available on IMF |