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On The Behavior of Commodity Prices / Angus Deaton, Guy Laroque.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deaton, Angus.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3439.
- NBER working paper series no. w3439
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1990.
- Summary:
- The classical theory of commodity price determination integrates myopic supply and demand on the one hand with competitive storage (speculation) under rational expectations on the other. Taking into account the fact that inventories mist; be non-negative, this paper derives from the theory testable implications on the behavior of prices, and makes a first attempt to confront these implications with the empirical evidence. The nonlinearities turn out to be a crucial ingredient in matching the stylized facts, particularity the asymmetries and the sharp upward flares that characterize many commodity prices. The model, simple as it is, goes a long way in reproducing the main features of the data for a range of commodities.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 1990.
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