A Short Note on Updating the Grilli and Yang Commodity Price Index

Pfaffenzeller, Stephan ; Newbold, Paul ; Rayner, Anthony

World Bank

关键词: commodities;    Commodity;    Commodity Price;    commodity prices;    financial support;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Grilli and Yang commodity price index is one of the most widely used commodity price series in the applied economics literature. This note provides some practical advice on updating this data series by listing the base period index values, identifying relevant data sources, and describing a method for computing subindex weights.