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Trade wars : what do they mean? : why are they happening now? : what are the costs?
Mattoo, Aaditya; Staiger, Robert W. - 2019
the rest of the world …
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Global Commodity Markets : Review and Price Forecast
World Bank Group - 2010
This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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The role of major emerging markets in global commodity demand
Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 2018
Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The seven largest emerging markets accounted for almost all the increase in global consumption of metals, and two-thirds of the increase in energy consumption over this period. As...
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Global Distortions to Key Agricultural Commodity Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2009
countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246947
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The role of income and substitution in commodity demand
Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter - 2020
analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228425
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : an Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …
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Commodity terms of trade : a new database
Gruss, Bernard; Kebhaj, Suhaib - 2019
and losses of income associated with changes in world prices-as well as additional country-specific series, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001593
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The Effects of Economic Newson Commodity Prices : Is Gold Just Another Commodity?
Roache, Shaun K. - 2009
The paper uses an event study methodology to investigate which and how macroeconomic announcements affect commodity prices. Results show that gold is unique among commodities, with prices reacting to specific scheduled announcements in the United States and the Euro area (such as indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402640
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Volatility of Oil Prices
Wickham, Peter - 1996
This paper examines the behavior of crude oil prices since 1980, and in particular the volatility of these prices. The empirical analysis covers “spot” prices for one of the key internationally traded crudes, namely Dated Brent Blend. A GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396128
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Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices in Neoclassical Model
International Monetary Fund - 1988
and world commodity supplies and the real exchange rate and real commodity prices. It is shown that fiscal expansion and … increasing world commodity supplies simultaneously lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and a decline in relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396210