Stabilization of international commodity markets

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