The Myth of Comoving Commodity Prices /

There is a common perception that the prices of unrelated commodities move together. This paper re-examines this notion, using a measure of comovement of economic time series called concordance. Concordance measures the proportion of time that the prices of two commodities are concurrently in the sa...

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Autor principal: McDermott, C.
Altres autors: Cashin, Paul, Scott, Alasdair
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/169
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF