China’s Factor in Recent Global Commodity Price
and Shipping Freight Volatilities
Feng Lu , Yuanfang Li
China Center for Economic Research
Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871
No. E2009007 Dec. 15, 2009
Abstract: This paper attempts an investigation on the impact of China’s factor on the global commodity and ocean shipping freight volatilities in recent years. It measures China’s contribution to the incremental demand growth for selected bulk commodities and ocean shipping in the world. China’s impact on the price volatilities is statistically analyzed through a conventional econometric framework.
Key words: the world commodity markets, global ocean shipping freights, China’s factor in the global commodity markets. 
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