The by-product effect on metal markets - New insights to the price behavior of minor metals

Resources Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-44

  Afflerbach, Patrick ^a   Fridgen, Gilbert ^b   Keller, Robert ^a   Rathgeber, Andreas W ^a   Strobel, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

By product; Co product; Empirical test; Joint production; Metal prices; Minor metals

Indexed keywords

CO-PRODUCTS; EMPIRICAL TEST; JOINT PRODUCTION; METAL PRICES;

BYPRODUCTS;

FORECASTING METHOD; METAL; MINING INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84908021746     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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