Variance Decomposition of Commodity Terms-of-Trade Shocks by Country and Category

17.5 KB of data from a study by Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez, last updated in March 2026, analyzing the impact of commodity terms-of-trade shocks on economic growth. The dataset likely contains country-level variance decomposition results for developing and emerging economies, disaggregated by commodity categories like metals, energy, food, and agricultural raw materials. Results examine effects at aggregate, country group, and specific country levels, focusing on short-run impacts.

Use Cases

• Modeling the short-run economic impact of commodity price shocks based on the variance decomposition analysis.
• Comparing 'blessing', 'curse', or 'negligible' growth effects across specific countries as suggested by the results.
• Analyzing the differential impact of shocks across commodity categories like metals, energy, food, and agricultural raw materials.
• Investigating the 'terms-of-trade disconnect puzzle' at the country group level for developing and emerging economies.

Strengths

• Dataset is 17.5 KB, indicating a compact and focused structure.
• Analysis is disaggregated by four commodity categories: agricultural raw materials, food and beverages, energy, and metals.
• Explicitly covers developing and emerging countries, providing a targeted geographic scope.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open reuse and modification.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• The 17.5 KB size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing summary or model results rather than raw observational data.

Provenance

Source

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely contains statistical model outputs (variance decomposition) from an economic study.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 17:28:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Developing and emerging countries.