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Commodity Prices : Cyclical Weakness or Secular Decline?

Wickham, Peter - 1994

Primary commodities still account for the bulk of exports in many developing countries. However, real commodity prices have been declining almost continuously since the early 1980s and there is evidence of renewed weakness. The appropriate policy response to a terms of trade shock depends...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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China's Impacton World Commodity Markets

Roache, Shaun K. - 2012

effect on commodity prices. China’s impact on world commodity markets is rising but, perhaps surprisingly, remains smaller … be more persistent and have larger effects on the rest of the world …

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Commodity Price Cycles : The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom

Sosa, Sebastian - 2011

Commodity-exporting countries have significantly benefited from the commodity price boom of recent years. At the current juncture, however, uncertain global economic prospects have raised questions about their vulnerability to a sharp fall in commodity prices and the policies that can shield it...

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Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices

Dupont, Dominique Yves - 1996

multi-country model, with world market clearing, which incorporates speculative and non-speculative demands for inventories … matters, and that supply and demand elasticities are important in determining the commodity price in world markets above and … beyond the size of the share of those commodities in world trade …