How Commodity Price Curves and Inventories React to a Short-Run Scarcity Shock /

How does a commodity market adjust to a temporary scarcity shock which causes a shift in the slope of the futures price curve? We find long-run relationships between spot and futures prices, inventories and interest rates, which means that such shocks lead to an adjustment back towards a stable equi...

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Autore principale: Erbil, Nese
Altri autori: Roache, Shaun
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/222
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF