Commodities

 

• Globalization Institute Working Paper

  Commodity Exports, Financial Frictions and International Spillovers

  This paper offers a solution to the international co-movement puzzle found in open-economy macroeconomic models.

  December 16, 2022

• Commodity financing markets shaken by Russia invasion; monitoring for U.S. financial stress

  While volatility in commodity markets is not unusual, rapid and correlated price increases across many different types of commodities at once is much rarer.

  April 14, 2022

• Southwest Economy, First Quarter 2020

  Groundwater Markets Slowly Evolve in Ever-Thirstier Texas

  Texas’ growing population is increasing the demand for water, a commodity that in many parts of the state is subject to wide swings from abundance during wet cycles to shortfall during droughts.

  April 06, 2020