commodities and ocean shipping in the world. China's impact on price volatilities is statistically analyzed through a conventional …This paper attempts an investigation of the impact of the China factor on the global commodity and ocean shipping … freight volatilities in recent years. It measures China's contribution to the incremental growth in demand for selected bulk …

effect on commodity prices. China’s impact on world commodity markets is rising but, perhaps surprisingly, remains smaller …Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some … be more persistent and have larger effects on the rest of the world …

of China's economic activity has a significant bearing on commodity prices, but that the impact differs across commodity … prices. The size of the impact on the prices of specific commodities varies with China's footprint in the market for those …