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What can we learn from primary commodity prices series which is useful to policymakers in resource-rich countries?

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  • Kaddour Hadri

    (Queen's University Management School)

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This paper investigates the properties of real commodity prices from the per- spective of policy makers seeking to conduct a successful ?scal policy in resource- rich countries. We found that policy makers face three potential challenges: (1) secular decline of real commodity prices, the so-called Prebish-Singer (PS) hypoth- esis, (2) real commodity prices are characterised by long-cycles, (3) and relative high volatility of real commodity prices. Employing recent and powerful econo- metrics/statistical techniques, we found that real commodity prices are mean re- verting, declining over time, have long cycles and relatively high volatility and this volatility is time varying. We summarised the most successful solutions to these three challenges faced by policy makers including the countercyclical structural budget technique pioneered by Chile.

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  • Kaddour Hadri, 2010. "What can we learn from primary commodity prices series which is useful to policymakers in resource-rich countries?," Economics Working Papers 0001, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast, revised Nov 2010.
    • Handle: RePEc:qub:wpaper:0001
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    Keywords

    resource-rich countries; Prebish-Singer Hypothesis; Cycles and Volatil- ity of Real Commodity Prices ; Panel data; Structural Change; Fiscal Policy; Structural Budget;
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    JEL classification:

    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
    • N5 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q3 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation

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