Search: Index of Commodity Prices
RBA Glossary definition for Index of Commodity Prices
Index of Commodity Prices – A Reserve Bank of Australia-compiled index which provides a measure of price movements in rural and non-rural (including base metals) commodities in Australian Dollars (AUD), Special Drawing Rights (SDR) and United States Dollars (USD).
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Determinants of Agricultural and Mineral Commodity Prices | Conference – 2009
17 Aug 2009
Conferences
Figure 3 provides time-series plots of the natural logarithm of commodity prices, each deflated by the US GDP chain price index. ... Regressand: constructed log real commodity price index. Table 6b: Commodity Price Index Results – First Differences.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2009/frankel-rose.html
Internationalisation and the Macroeconomy | Conference – 1994
11 Jul 1994
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This time, the terms of trade rise was driven by a broadly-based commodity price boom including a quadrupling of the US dollar oil price. ... Second, for commodities relevant to Australia, mineral commodity prices are about 40 per cent less volatile than
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1994/gruen-shuetrim.html
A Factor Model Analysis of the Effects of Inflation Targeting on the Australian Economy | Conference – 2018
12 Apr 2018
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Export price index: Goods and services credits. Prices. Δlog(x. t. ). Yes. Import price index: Goods and services debits. Prices. Δlog(x. t. ). ... Yes. Terms of trade. Prices. Δlog(x. t. ). Yes. Index of commodity prices (ICP).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2018/hartigan-morley.html
The Debate on Alternatives for Monetary Policy in Australia | Conference – 1997
21 Jul 1997
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In this way, it is argued that stability of the commodity-price index as a whole would be ensured without the public having to transact all commodities in the basket. ... A variant of this proposal, put forward by Dowd (1990), would adjust the parity
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1997/edey.html
Measuring Economic Progress | Conference – 1995
10 Jul 1995
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Each of the observations is itself an aggregation of the price and quantity relativities of each commodity within the group and, as such, has its own index number problems. ... Suppose that the relative prices of all commodities in the two countries had
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1995/castles.html
The Exchange Rate and Macroeconomic Policy in Australia | Conference – 1993
12 Jul 1993
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Figure 2 shows annual inflation rates of the US dollar-valued RBA commodity price index and the OECD consumer price index. ... Commodity price movements are reflected in the foreign currency prices of Australian exports and imports.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1993/pitchford.html
Inflation and Disinflation in Australia: 1950–91 | Conference – 1992
31 Dec 1950
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The share price index had risen by two thirds between the end of 1957 and the middle of 1960. ... Woods exchange-rate arrangements; a boom in commodity prices; and especially a quadrupling of the US dollar price of oil in 1973.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1992/stevens.html
Problems in the Measurement and Performance of Service-Sector Productivity in the United States | Conference – 1995
10 Jul 1995
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My new verdict relies primarily on several sources of upward bias in the American consumer price index (CPI) that have been identified since 1988 by government statisticians within the Bureau of ... There are at least four reasons. 1. Traditional
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1995/gordon.html
China's Institutional Impediments to Productivity Growth | Conference – 2016
18 Mar 2016
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The nominal accounts are deflated by industry-level producer price indices (PPI), constructed using official PPIs for the agricultural and industrial sectors, and the consumer price index or its components for ... A double-deflation approach would have
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2016/wu.html
Relative Price Shocks, Inflation Expectations, and the Role of Monetary Policy | Conference – 2009
17 Aug 2009
Conferences
For example, during the depths of the Great Depression, in a landmark 1932 study of commodity prices covering two centuries of data, Warren and Pearson (1932) remarked: ‘Any price level that ... The vector X consists of the following variables. Oil and
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2009/siklos.html