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008			110418s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
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040			_aGUL _cTOSD _dTOSD _bENG
082	0	0	_a332.6328 _223
100	1		_aPirrong, Stephen Craig, _d1959-
245	1	0	_aCommodity price dynamics : _ba structural approach / _cCraig Pirrong.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_axiii, 224 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and indexes.
520			_a"Commodities have become and important component of many investors' portfolios and the focus of much political controversy over the past decade. This book utilizes structural models to provide a better understanding of how commodities' prices behave and what drives them. It exploits differences across commoditites and examines a variety of predictions of the models to identify where they work and where they fail. The findings of the analysis are useful to scholars, traders, and policy makers who want to better understand often puzzling--and extreme--movements in the prices of commoditites from aluminum to oil to soybeans to zinc"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aPrices.
650		0	_aPrices _xForecasting.
650		0	_aCommodity exchanges.
942			_2ddc _cBOOK