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End of the Supercycle and Growth of Commodity Producers: The Case of Chile

By Luc Eyraud

November 23, 2015

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Luc Eyraud. End of the Supercycle and Growth of Commodity Producers: The Case of Chile, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 18, 2024
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This paper estimates the effect of copper prices on Chile’s growth at various time horizons. We find that a price decline is likely to have a durable (although not permanent) effect on GDP growth: while the impact is the strongest in the first 3 years after the shock, the transition towards the new lower steady-state GDP level generally takes 5–10 years. From a production function perspective, the GDP growth slowdown is mainly driven by lower capital accumulation.

Subject: Commodities, Commodity price shocks, Commodity prices, Metal prices, Prices

Keywords: Chile, Commodities, Commodity, Commodity price shocks, Commodity prices, Copper, Copper price fluctuation, Copper price outlook, Copper price series, Copper price Supercycle, Effect of commodity price shock, GDP deceleration, Global, Growth, Macroeconomic effect of commodity price shock, Metal prices, Negative commodity price shock, Nominal copper price, Price, Price series, Price shock, Price volatility model, Volatility model, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    27

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2015/242

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2015242

  • ISBN:

    9781513531557

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941