Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2020/861-0

WIDER Working Paper

2020

DOI: 10.35188/unu-wider/2020/861-0

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Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility

Tony Addison¹,

Atanu Ghoshray²

Abstract: This study has been initiated within the UNU-WIDER project Extractives for development (E4D) and is also published under the follow-up project Extractives for development (E4D)-risks and opportunities.

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Firms’ approach to mitigating risks in the platinum group metals sector

Baskaran

2021

Miner Econ

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With platinum prices declining due to a seismic demand shift and firms grappling with the high cost of labor and prolonged production-stopping labor strikes, the financial sustainability of platinum group metal (PGM) firms has come under duress since 2012. This article seeks to understand how mining firms have reshaped their strategies to ensure financial sustainability while also meeting external expectations of increasing shared-value outcomes by assessing how firms are deploying buffers and bridges. Firms use buffers when they seek to protect core business activities from supply-side and demand-side volatilities by shifting their overall business strategy and bridges to conform with external expectations of improving shared-value outcomes. The article constructs a case study using five sets of data to assess (i) what supply and demand shocks firms are facing; (ii) how they are reshaping their strategies and undertaking activities to protect the firm from these shocks; (iii) what challenges firms face with reaching shared-value outcomes; and (iv) how firms are undertaking activities to improve shared-value outcomes. This article finds that although buffering activities have been successful at increasing the financial sustainability of mining activities, bridging activities have been less successful given that royalties are vulnerable to maladministration, the impact of corporate social investments often short-lived, and insular and local procurement is limited to low-value-added activities, particularly in the context of mechanization. This article seeks to contribute to the body of literature on how extractive firms are responding to supply and demand shocks and argues that a paradigm shift may be necessary in which traditional bridging activities become part of protecting core business activities to ameliorate the risk of losing a firm’s social license to operate.

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Firms’ approach to mitigating risks in the platinum group metals sector

Baskaran

2021

Miner Econ

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Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility

Abstract: This study has been initiated within the UNU-WIDER project Extractives for development (E4D) and is also published under the follow-up project Extractives for development (E4D)-risks and opportunities.

Cited by 1 publication

References 41 publications

Firms’ approach to mitigating risks in the platinum group metals sector

Firms’ approach to mitigating risks in the platinum group metals sector

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