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We show that explicitly modeling primary commodities in an otherwise totally standard incomplete markets open economy model can go a long way in explaining the Mussa puzzle and the Backus-Smith puzzle, two of the main puzzles in the international economics literature.
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SVAR models that include a single world price (such as the terms-of-trade) predict that world shocks explain a small … multiple commodity prices transmit world disturbances. Estimates on a panel of 138 countries over the period 1960-2015 indicate … that world shocks explain on average 33 percent of output fluctuations in individual economies. This figure doubles when …
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. To achieve this goal, we decompose an oil price shock to its underlying components, including macroeconomics and oil … functions, the response of volatility of each commodity to an oil price shock differs significantly depending on the underlying … cause of the shock for the both pre and post-crisis periods. moreover, according to variance decomposition the explanatory …
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This study investigates the price volatility of metals, using the GARCH and GJR models. First we examine the persistence of volatility and the leverage effect across metal markets taking into account the presence of outliers, and second we estimate the effects of oil price shocks on the price...
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This paper shows that there is substantial comovement between prices of primary commodities such as oil, aluminum, maize, or copper and real exchange rates between developed economies such as Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom against the US dollar. The production of commodities is then...
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