Price volatility of strategic commodities : correlation or causation.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Koh, Deng Qiang., Lim, Yi Theng., Ong, Ricky Hao Long.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Chang Youngho
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Statistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52134
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Commodity prices have been observed to experience sharp fluctuations. Oil prices have spiked to US$146 per barrel in August 2008 but subsequently plunged to less than a quarter of this value in December 2008. Agricultural commodities are not spared either with the food price crisis of 2007-08 and fo...