China is both a major trading partner of the United States and the largest official holder of U.S. assets in the world …

SVAR models that include a single world price (such as the terms-of-trade) predict that world shocks explain a small … multiple commodity prices transmit world disturbances. Estimates on a panel of 138 countries over the period 1960-2015 indicate … that world shocks explain on average 33 percent of output fluctuations in individual economies. This figure doubles when …