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Technology has changed the nature of service activities and made them more productive, tradable and fragmented in the global supply chain. Has Europe's growth been benefiting from the ongoing globalization of services? Services dominate growth in EU-15 countries and, to a lesser extent, in New...
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evidence does not actually attempt to measure the volatility of prices of individual goods or commodities. The literature tends …This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in … is that primary commodity prices are more volatile than those of manufactured products, although most of the existing …
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Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services trade. Using new trade data from the United States, and more aggregate data from other OECD countries, the authors show that services trade is weathering the current crisis much...
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agriculture and positive for metals. A key implication of the pass-through results is that for as long as energy prices remain … elevated, most non-energy commodity prices are expected to be high. …
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import prices. …
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organizations'marks down'the prices producers receive. As the market share of Fairtrade coffee grows in importance, its intervention …
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The International Commodity Markets Division (CM) of the World Bank started forecasting primary commodity prices more … the subject of occasional retrospective studies. This paper explores the relationship between commodity futures prices and … price expectations. It focuses of the usefulness of futures prices as a short-term price forecasting tool. In 1989, Froot …
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The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries to calculate the total factor productivity of firms....
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The authors explain the features of an array of futures contracts and their basic pricing relationships and describe a few applications to show how investors and risk managers can use these contracts. Futures - and derivatives generally - allow economic agents to fine-tune the structure of their...
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Liberalization in commodity markets has brought profound changes in the way price risks are allocated and managed in commodity subsectors. Price risks are increasingly allocated to private traders and farmers rather than absorbed by the government. The success of market reform depends on the...
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