Non-renewable resource prices: Deterministic or stochastic trends?

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 354-370

  Lee, Junsoo ^a   List, John A ^b   Strazicich, Mark C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity prices; Forecasting; Structural breaks; Unit root test

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORECASTING; NATURAL RESOURCES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMMODITY PRICES; STRUCTURAL BREAKS; UNIT ROOT TEST;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING METHOD; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646083661     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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