Do international primary commodity prices exhibit asymmetric adjustment?

Atanu Ghoshray

Journal of Commodity Markets, 2019, vol. 14, issue C, 40-50

Abstract: A number of developing countries are dependent on the export of a few commodities for a large share of their income. This dependency makes it important for these countries to understand the dynamic properties of commodity prices which are known to be characterised by booms and slumps. What is important for policy makers is whether this cyclical movement is asymmetric, and the nature of such asymmetry. This paper investigates whether asymmetric adjustment exists and can be explained. Our results find that there is some evidence of asymmetry in commodity prices and their effect on developing countries can have non-trivial effects.

Keywords: Commodity prices; Structural breaks; Persistence; Asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E32 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomm.2018.08.002

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