Surveys were used to quantify the
substantial structural changes that have occurred in the
major world jute markets since the late 1960s and to
identify constraints...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP16Date: January 31, 1987Author:
Thigpen, M. Elton ;
Marongiu, Paula ;
Lasker, Saidur R.
Cuba is the single largest sugar
exporter and is reliant on sugar for some 70-80 percent of
its total export revenue. Since 1960, Cuba's sugar
exports have been distributed...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8602Date: June 30, 1986Author:
Tan,C. Suan
The present paper describes some
preliminary work done in the Economic Analysis and
Projections Department of the World Bank to construct a set
of international trade...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8607Date: May 31, 1986Author:
Moran, Christian ;
Jong-Goo Park
This report analyzes the relationship
between exchange rate movements and commodity prices. The
paper focuses on the effects of changes in the U.S. dollar
on primary...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8604Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Sheldon,Christopher Gilbert
One problem in assessing longer-term
market prospects for any industrial raw material is the need
to consider substitution by alternative materials. Until
recently,...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8603Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Tan,C. Suan
Prospects for the world jute industry to
the mid 1990's are analyzed to identify trends likely
to follow the confusion in the jute market originating from
the 1984/85...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP14Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Thigpen, M. Elton ;
Takamasa Akiyama
This paper develops a model of supply of
perennial crops which is an alternative to the traditional
Nerlovian model. It is argued that a cost-of-adjustment
investment...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8601Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Trivedi, Pravin K
Decreases in world import-demand for
U.S. grain exports do not stem so much from the strength of
the U.S. dollar and high U.S. loan rates as they do from
other factors...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8505Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Mitchell,Donald O.
The Commodities Studies and Projections
Division has recently completed the construction of global
models of grains (wheat, rice and coarse grains) and
soybeans markets....
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8507Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Mitchell,Donald O.
This paper examines the joint
implications of private sector stockholding and futures
market trading for commodity price dynamics. Speculative
private sector stockholding...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8504Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Gilbert,Christopher L.
This paper uses quantitative methods to
identify major factors affecting jute supply in Bangladesh.
As well as estimating the impact of the jute-to-rice price
ratio...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP13Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Akiyama,Takamasa
The world sugar market is much more
complex than most outsiders suspect. Sugar is unique among
major world agricultural commodities in being produced from
two totally...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8501Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Fry,James
This paper uses an econometric
simulation model of world energy markets to project the
competitive supply, demand, and prices for thermal coal as a
part of overall energy...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP12Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Boum-Jong Choe
In the next two years, prices of
non-fuel primary commodities are expected to grow at less
than the rate of growth of international inflation. This
expectation is based...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP11Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Duncan, Ronald C. [editor]
This paper compares the linear
complementarity programming (LCP) investment model with the
linear programming (LP) investment model, using the
bauxite-alumina-aluminum...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8401Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Takayama, Takashi ;
Hashimoto, Hideo
Whereas models have generally been
developed for perfectly competitive and monopolistic
markets, this paper presents a spatial equilibrium model
based on assumed oligoplistic...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8402Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
This study examines some problems in the
market for natural rubber, one of the ten core commodities
proposed for stabilization. The first part of the study is
concerned...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP10Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Tan,C. Suan
Due to the change in demand for tin, tin
plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the
pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have
contributed...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8303Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
Linear programming (LP) and quadratic
programming (QP) have been broadly applied to analyze
commodity- and sector-related issues. Linear
complementarity programming...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8302Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
For some time, forest products have been
the most important product group in Indonesia's exports
except for petroleum. This report reviews the recent
changes in Indonesia's...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8301Date: January 31, 1983Author:
Takeuchi,Kenji
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