【Macro/Finance webinar】Does the Commodity Super Cycle Matter?
2021/02/26
研討會日期 : 2021-02-26
時間 : 09:00
主講人 : Professor Martin Uribe
地點 : online
演講者簡介 : Professor Uribe received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research fields are International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics.
演講摘要 : This paper investigates empirically the role of the commodity price super cycle in explaining real activity in developed and emerging economies. The commodity price super cycle is defined as a common permanent component in real commodity prices. Estimates using quarterly and annual data from 1960 to 2018 indicate that world shocks that affect commodity prices and the world interest rate explain more than half of the variance of output growth on average across countries. However, the majority of this contribution, more than two thirds, stems from stationary world shocks. These results suggest that world disturbances that are responsible for low frequency movements in commodity prices play an important but not dominant role in driving fluctuations in aggregate activity at the country level.
