Duration and characteristics of metal price cycles

Resources Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 87-102

  Roberts, Mark C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity price cycles; Cyclicality of prices; Duration of metal price cycles; Metal prices

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DATA; COMMODITY PRICE CYCLES; CYCLICALITY; CYCLICALITY OF PRICES; DURATION DEPENDENCE; DURATION OF METAL PRICE CYCLES; METAL PRICES; PRICE CHANGES; RANDOM VARIATION; REAL METALS; TURNING POINTS;

METALS; SHRINKAGE;

COSTS;

COMMODITY PRICE; CYCLICITY; INFLATION; METAL; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 67349106704     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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