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A new perspective on price dynamics of the dry bulk market

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The main result of this article is that freight rates and second hand prices in the dry bulk market seem to be stationary. By unit-root tests, an established tool for testing for random walk in economic time series, the random walk hypothesis can be rejected in most cases for the freight rate samples. This result is in contrast to the findings of a number of papers during the 1990s. However, the results confirm classical shipping market models that indicate stationarity in freight rates, which is not the case if the freight rates follow a random walk. By transforming all observations from US$ to Japanese yen detrended freight rates and prices seem to become stationary and volatility is reduced.

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  • Jostein Tvedt, 2003. "A new perspective on price dynamics of the dry bulk market," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 221-230, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:30:y:2003:i:3:p:221-230
    DOI: 10.1080/0308883032000133413
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