The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices : A Reappraisal /

This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in international trade data from the United States over the period 2002 to 2011. The conventional wisdom in academia and policy circles is that primary commodity prices are more volatile...

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Huvudupphovsman: Arezki, Rabah
Övriga upphovsmän: Lederman, Daniel, Zhao, Hongyan
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/279
Länkar:Full text available on IMF