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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Autor principal: Arezki, Rabah
Altres autors: Lederman, Daniel, Zhao, Hongyan
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/279
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF