Composite commodities and the Prebisch-Singer thesis

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1863-1871

  Chen, John Ren ^a   Stocker, Herbert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Price volatility; Primary commodity markets; Terms of trade

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICES; PREBISCH-SINGER HYPOTHESIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TERMS OF TRADE; THEORY;

EID: 0031419776     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00078-8     Document Type: Article

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