The empirical relevance of the competitive storage model
竞争性储藏模型的实证相关性
The empirical relevance of models of competitive storage arbitrage in explaining commodity price behavior has been seriously challenged in a series of pathbreaking papers by (Deaton and Laroque, 1992), (Deaton and Laroque, 1995) and (Deaton and Laroque, 1996). Here we address their major criticism, that the model is in general unable to explain the degree of serial correlation observed in the prices of twelve major commodities. First, we present a simple numerical version of…