The motivation of this paper is to identify the effect of treatment charge (TC) on LME (London Metal Exchange) copper … finds a statistically significant negative link between TC and LME copper prices. It is found that a 10% increase in TC of … copper decreases in copper return by 1.8%. Subsequently, the vector autoregression (VAR) model is introduced to consider the …

The paper concludes that world copper prices play an important role in short-term fluctuations and probably influence … copper price boom, the higher copper price and associated capital inflows create upward pressure on the real exchange rate …. The appreciation of the Chilean peso during the first part of the copper cycle contributes to lower inflation, which could …