This paper identifies the economic fundamentals of the evolution of copper price. The main hypotheses of the paper is that cooper price is mainly determined by the evolution of demand of countries with large market power on that market. The novelty is that nominal exchange rate are one of the fundamental of market power. We use monthly data ranging from 1994 to 2003 and by means of a cointegration analysis; we find the Asian block significantly affects the price of this tradable good.
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Paper provided by Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. in its series Documentos de Trabajo with number
282.
Length: Date of creation: 2005 Date of revision: Publication status: Published as "Market Power and Primary Commodity Prices: The Case of Copper", Journal of Applied Economics Letters, por aparecer. Handle: RePEc:ioe:doctra:282