Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Environmental Impacts of Globalization -- Chapter 3: Generating Spatial Time Series on Interstate Commodity Flows -- Chapter 4: The Evolution of Commodity Flows and Associated Non-Point-Source Black Carbon Emissions in the Midwest-Northeast Transportation...

We review the literature on the empirical characteristics of the global financial cycle and associated stylized facts on international capital flows, asset prices, risk aversion and liquidity in the financial system. We analyse the co-movements of global factors in asset prices and capital flows...