Simona Delle Chiaie
;
Laurent Ferrara
;
Domenico Giannone

common factors of commodity prices (replication data)

In this paper, we extract latent factors from a large cross-section of commodity prices, including fuel and non-fuel commodities. We decompose each commodity price series into a global (or common) component, block-specific components, and a purely idiosyncratic component. We find that the bulk of the fluctuations in commodity prices are well summarized by a single global factor. This global factor is closely related to fluctuations in global economic activity and, since the early 2000s, has become more important in explaining variations in commodity prices.

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Chiaie, Simona Delle; Ferrara, Laurent; Giannone, Domenico (2022): Common factors of commodity prices (replication data). Version: 1. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022327.072248