. Investors and speculators such as investment banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, etc. pay close attention to the price and …

prices. As with many natural resources price series, the arrival of new information can lead to unexpectedly rapid changes … metal price series is investigated, as well as time-varying volatility. The results demonstrate that allowing for jumps and … complex processes contributed to the fatness of the tails in the distribution of heavy metal price returns. …

Risks related to commodity price volatility are a major thread to actors in commodity chains, particularly to … smallholder farmers in low income countries. Therefore, price setting and transmission within global commodity chains are of … crucial importance from a developmental and distributional perspective. With the end of global price stabilization mechanisms …