Relative Commodity Prices and Cointegration
商品相对价格与协整
The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of a secular decline in the relative price of primary commodities is reassessed, on the basis of recently available time series data, for 1900-86. Special attention is given to adequate dynnamic modeling of price fluctuations. Primary and manufactured-goods prices are found to be cointegrated. The hypothesis of stationarity for the long-run relative-price movements cannot be rejected. The empirical evidence does not support the Prebisch-Singer…