a class of stochastic volatility model has a great capacity to forecast the current copper prices …The purpose of this paper is to examine the empirical behavior of copper spot prices in London Metal Exchange. Based on … the particularities of the copper, various continuous processes are used. We simulate one, two and three factors …

This paper is about understanding the cycle of global copper price booms and busts over Zambia's economic history. We … Zambian governments did not use copper revenues to accumulate productive assets, focusing instead on financing consumption … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

malthusian scarcity prediction. In this article we review the international copper price indices available in the literature and … more accurate copper price estimation in the long run. This information will enhance our knowledge on commodity prices … we compare them with a new data set, elaborated from the Official Foreign Trade statistics of one of the main copper …