evidence does not actually attempt to measure the volatility of prices of individual goods or commodities. The literature tends … to focus on trends in the evolution and volatility of ratios of price indexes composed of multiple commodities and … individual primary commodities are less volatile than those of individual manufactured goods. However, the challenges of managing …

commodities, weak dollar, fiscal expansion, and lax monetary policy in many countries, and investment fund activity. At the same … time, the combination of adverse weather conditions, the diversion of some food commodities to the production of biofuels …, and government policies (including export bans and prohibitive taxes) brought global stocks of many food commodities down …

negative trend in the price of commodities in 1870-1945 implies an increasingly weak position for developing countries relative … of the price of the 24 most-traded commodities in 1900-92. The method they use tests for nonstationarity (unit roots) in …-Singer hypothesis though not universal, holds for most commodities. This evidence rejects, to some extent, previous evidence by …

How useful and relevant are the results of standard optimal commodity tax models when one or more commodities are … the government has a fixed budget to subsidize certain commodities, optimal policy will be to subsidize only the rationed … commodities. In a multi person economy, optimal policy will tax all nonrationed commodities at an infinite rate if the rule is …