Modelling the price of industrial commodities

Economic Modelling

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-353

  Baldursson, Fridrik M ^a,b  

^a National Economic Institute   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Aluminium price; Competitive speculation; D84; D92; E22; E23; Irreversible investment; Rational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009856522     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(99)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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