Unit roots in real primary commodity prices?: a meta-analysis of the Grilli and Yang data set

Diego Winkelried

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomm.2021.100168

Unit roots in real primary commodity prices? a meta-analysis of the Grilli and Yang data set

Diego Winkelried

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The long-run behavior of real primary commodity prices, especially whether these series are trend stationary or contain a unit root, has been a topic of major debate in applied economics. In this paper, I perform a meta-analysis and combine the evidence of 12 representative studies on the subject in order to reach a unified conclusion about the presence of unit roots in these prices. The studies use different testing procedures, but share the common null hypothesis of a difference stationary process. Also, they use the individual price indices from the Grilli and Yang data set that is arguably one the most popular sources of long-term data on commodity prices. The combined evidence against unit roots in real primary commodity prices is strong: out of 24 cases, the unit root is not rejected in at most four. This rate means that real primary commodity prices are mean reverting and thus, to some degree, forecastable.

Idioma original	Inglés
Número de artículo	100168
Número de páginas	31
Publicación	Journal of Commodity Markets
Volumen	23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomm.2021.100168
Estado	Publicada - set. 2021

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☆ I am indebted to Marco Terrones and seminar participants at the Universidad del Pacífico, the 2017 Annual Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association, and the XXXV Economists Meetings of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, for their useful suggestions. I also thank Atle Øglend and an anonymous referee for insightful comments. The financial support of the Research Center of Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP) is gratefully acknowledged. I alone am responsible for the views expressed in this paper and for any remaining errors.

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