Essays about: "Commodity price boom"

Found 4 essays containing the words Commodity price boom.

1. 1. Commodity Price Boom and Copper mines in Chile: The assessment of local spillover effects on the labor market.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Silvia Navarro Berdeal; [2019]
   Keywords : Commodity price boom; labour multipliers; natural resources; gender disparities; women labour markets.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Chile has been benefited from a commodity boom in the copper industry during the first decade of the 21st century. Does a mineral boom increase local labour opportunities? Can women get benefit from a resource boom? Can the mineral boom have indirect effects in non-mining sectors? The present paper attempts to explore and measure the impact of an exogenous increase in copper global prices between 2003 and 2011, on Chilean labor market, with a particular focus on gender disparities. READ MORE

3. 2. Spatial Channels and Regional Mechanisms of Dutch Disease in Canadian Economy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Oleksandr Shapovalov; [2017]
   Keywords : Dutch disease; economic growth; productivity gap; regional divergence; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Dutch disease is one of the mechanisms through which the boom in one of the sectors induced by an exogenous shock may have profound adversary implications over the economic growth in the long term. The windfall gains generated from the commodity price increase leads to real exchange rate appreciation boosting wages and prices across all economic sector. READ MORE

4. 3. Uranium Mining Industry : -A valuation of uranium mining companies

   University essay from IHH, Redovisning och finansiering

   Author : Jacob Östlund; Kristian Kierkegaard; [2007]
   Keywords : Uranium; uranium mining; mining; commodity valuation; share valuation; valuation; natural resource valuation; cash flow analysis; relative PV;

   Abstract : Background: Over the last three years uranium prices have soard from US $14 per pound (lb) to the current price of US $120/lb and this rapid incline of the commodity have created a boom within the uranium prospecting and min-ing industry. There are currently 435 nuclear reactors all over the world and these reactors demand 180 millions of pounds of uranium each year to run at full production. READ MORE

5. 4. Real Exchange Rate Determinants in the Industrialised Commodity Currency Economies: An error-correction framework

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : William Speller; [2006]
   Keywords : commodity currency; real exchange rate; error-correction model;

   Abstract : Although located at far-flung points of the globe, Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand and Norway have an intrinsic similarity and together represent an anomaly in international macroeconomics; they are the industrialised commodity currency economies. These five nations have advanced and developed while maintaining their traditional dependence on primary resources, thereby exposing the value of their respective currencies to the volatility of global commodity price cycles. READ MORE