#  Commodity Prices: Macro Determinants 

 



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"Macroeconomic determinants of commodity prices." [Ppt slides](/file_url/595) ([pdf](/file_url/596)), National Minerals Information Center Seminar Series, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, August 23, 2018

"Macroeconomic determinants of international commodity prices," [Ppt slides](/file_url/597) ([pdf](/file_url/598)), Keynote Address, [JPMCC](https://business-news.ucdenver.edu/2018/08/23/international-commodities-symposium-focuses-on-real-world-application/) [International Commodities Symposium](http://www.jpmcc-gcard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Page-11_17-Winter-2018-GCARD-Yang.pdf),University of Colorado Denver Business School, August 13-15, 2018.

 "[Why Are Commodity Prices Falling?](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/commodities-oil-falling-prices-by-jeffrey-frankel-2014-12)" [*Project Syndicate*](http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/jeffrey-frankel), Dec. 15, 2014. "[Commodity Prices: Down in Dollars, Up in Euros,](http://www.voxeu.org/article/commodity-prices-down-dollars-euros)" [*VoxEU*](http://www.voxeu.org/person/jeffrey-frankel), Dec.24, 2014.  
  
 [Course](http://www.szgerzensee.ch/courses/central-bankers/) on Monetary Policy & Commodities, Study Center Gerzensee, Swiss National Bank, June 2014. Lecture slides on: [Commodity Prices](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/GerzCommodityPriceEconomicsSNB-Jun23.pptx); [NR Curse](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/GerzNRCday2SNB2014Jun24.pptx); [Currency Policy](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/GerzM&ExRPolicyDay3Jun24.pptx).  
  
[Video of session on forecasting commodity prices](http://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.aspx?vid=2260845155001). [paper](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CommodityPrices2013IMF.doc) [presented at Conference](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CommodityCarry-IMF-March2013.pptx) on *Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuations* ([organized by the IMF Research Dept.](http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2012/commodity/) & the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, March 2013, Washington, D.C.)   
  
“[Commodity Prices and Interest Rates](http://www.cobank.com/Newsroom-Financials/~/media/Files/Searchable%20PDF%20Files/Newsroom%20Financials/Outlook/Outlook%202012/Outlook_10122.pdf),” *Economic Outlook* (CoBank), Oct. 2012, vol.9, no. 10, pp.1-6.  
  
"[Monetary Policy and Commodity Prices](http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1178)," *VoxEU*, 2008.  
  
"[An Explanation for Soaring Commodity Prices](http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1002)," *VoxEU*, 2008.  
  
"[Real Interest Rates Cast a Shadow Over Oil,"](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/OilPrice&IR-FT-Apr15.pdf) *Financial Times*, April 15, 2005. Revised from "[Why Are Oil and Metal Prices High? Don’t Forget Low Interest Rates](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/OilPrice&IR-FT-Apr15.pdf)."