Stabilization of international commodity markets
By: by Paul Hallwood.
Series: Contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis ;; v. 18
Publisher: Jai Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Commodity control.
First sentence: Commodity problems have become a central issue in the economic and political relations between developed and less developed countries
Description: STABILZATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY MARKETS

Introduction
1.	International trade in primary commodities
2.	The desirability of price stabilization
3.	International arrangements and export earnings instability in practice
4.	A stochastic model of the optimum buffer stock
5.	A model of commodity market speculation
6.	Interactions between private speculation and buffer stock agencies in commodity stabilization
7.	Commodity reserve currency systems and multi-commodity buffer stock schemes
8.	Copper: the genesis and negotiation of an international commodity agreement
9.	Cartels
10.	UNCTAD: Its role
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.