States, the issuer of the world's dominant currency, by causing a dollar appreciation and a transfer of wealth from the … United States to the rest of the world. This dollar appreciation runs counter to the predictions of standard macroeconomic …

with those of the rest of the world. We analyse the relative importance of US, country-specific, and global variables as …. Global and national risk indicators perform better in explaining "rest of the world" flows. Moreover, we find that the … correlation between US and rest of the world flows peaks in periods of elevated uncertainty. We interpret our findings as evidence …