China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets
Title | China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Ms.Christina Kolerus |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2016-09-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1475542054 |
This note assesses empirically the role Chinese activity plays in global commodities markets, showing that the strength of China’s economic activity has a significant bearing on commodity prices, but that the impact differs across commodity markets, with industrial production shocks having a substantial impact on metals and crude oil prices and less so on food prices. The size of the impact on the prices of specific commodities varies with China’s footprint in the market for those commodities; the empirical estimates indicate that, over a one-year horizon, a 1 percent increase in industrial production leads to a 5–7 percent rise in metals and fuel prices. The surprise component in Chinese industrial production announcements has a bearing on commodity prices that is comparable in magnitude to that of industrial production surprises in the United States, and this impact is much larger when global risk aversion is high.
The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices
Title | The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices PDF eBook |
Author | Masuma Farooki |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136581960 |
Drawing on a large number of diverse sources, How China Disrupted Global Commodities comprehensively and systematically evidences the trends in the prices of different sets of commodities, analyses the drivers of China’s demand for commodities the factors constraining global supply and in the role which the financialisation of commodities is playing in constraining commodity production. It also documents and the growing role of China as a foreign investor in the commodities sectors. All of these trends are woven together to explore the fabric of strategic choices confronting public and private sector decision-makers.
China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets
Title | China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Ms.Christina Kolerus |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2016-09-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1475541066 |
This note assesses empirically the role Chinese activity plays in global commodities markets, showing that the strength of China’s economic activity has a significant bearing on commodity prices, but that the impact differs across commodity markets, with industrial production shocks having a substantial impact on metals and crude oil prices and less so on food prices. The size of the impact on the prices of specific commodities varies with China’s footprint in the market for those commodities; the empirical estimates indicate that, over a one-year horizon, a 1 percent increase in industrial production leads to a 5–7 percent rise in metals and fuel prices. The surprise component in Chinese industrial production announcements has a bearing on commodity prices that is comparable in magnitude to that of industrial production surprises in the United States, and this impact is much larger when global risk aversion is high.
The Effects of Increasing Chinese Demand on Global Commodity Markets, Staff Research Study #28
Title | The Effects of Increasing Chinese Demand on Global Commodity Markets, Staff Research Study #28 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 108 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1457818957 |
Winner Take All
Title | Winner Take All PDF eBook |
Author | Dambisa Moyo |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012-06-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0465029329 |
Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political conflict as global demand for fossil fuels outstrips supply. The picture is bleak, but our grasp of the details and the macro shifts in commodities markets remain blurry. Winner Take All is about the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades. In particular, it is about the implications of China's rush for resources across all regions of the world. The scale of China's resource campaign for hard commodities (metals and minerals) and soft commodities (timber and food) is among the largest in history. To be sure, China is not the first country to launch a global crusade to secure resources. From Britain's transcontinental operations dating back to the end of the 16th century, to the rise of modern European and American transnational corporations between the mid 1860's and 1870's, the industrial revolution that powered these economies created a voracious demand for raw materials and created the need to go far beyond their native countries. So too is China's resource rush today. Although still in its early stages, already the breadth of China's operation is awesome, and seemingly unstoppable. China's global charge for commodities is a story of China's quest to secure its claims on resource assets, and to guarantee the flow of inputs needed to continue to drive economic development. Moyo, an expert in global commodities markets, explains the implications of China's resource grab in a world of diminishing resources.
China's Vulnerability Paradox
Title | China's Vulnerability Paradox PDF eBook |
Author | Pascale Massot |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0197771394 |
"In the summer of 2022, the Chinese government announced the creation of a $3 Billion state-owned iron ore giant, the China Mineral Resources Group, whose mission is to manage the multifaceted undertakings of iron ore imports, processing and trading, as well as overseas investments. This was an extraordinary announcement and in many ways the culmination of at least fifteen years of frustrations on behalf of leading Chinese iron ore market stakeholders. There is something paradoxical about China's relationship with and impact on global commodity markets. On one hand, within a very short period of time, China emerged from being an almost complete outsider to becoming the principal player in most commodity markets"--
China's Impacton World Commodity Markets
Title | China's Impacton World Commodity Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Mr.Shaun K. Roache |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1475539193 |
Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in part reflecting inventory demand) have no effect on commodity prices. China’s impact on world commodity markets is rising but, perhaps surprisingly, remains smaller than that of the United States. This is mainly due to the dynamics of real activity growth shocks in the U.S, which tend to be more persistent and have larger effects on the rest of the world.