Interest Rates and Commodity Prices

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Interest Rates and Commodity Prices John Kitchen and Gordon Rausser

Abstract. The theory of storage and arbItrage a~ proaches fully mcorporate nommal mterest rates m far-near commodIty price spreads AlternatIVe frame­ works admIt a relatIOnshIp betlVeen mterest rates and commodIty own rates of mteres~ and as a resul~ the commodity price spread would not completely mcor­ porate the nommal mterest rate ThIS study examInes the VieWS on mterest rate-