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Last year alone, the U.S. Treasury auctioned off $28 trillion in securities. But investors may not always be so willing to take U.S. IOUs, according to new research from Mindy Xiaolan, associate professor of finance at Texas McCombs. She finds the U.S. government’s fiscal capacity — its ability to raise money — depends on the dominance of the U.S. dollar. Her research highlights potential losses U.S. government bondholders could face if another currency ever replaces the dollar as the global reserve currency.
In a world facing rising economic uncertainty and instability, look to cross-border investment activity for solid clues about what's next for economic growth and foreign exchange rates.
That's a key finding by Steven Riddiough, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management, and Huizhong Zhang from Australia's Monash University. They assessed nearly a quarter century of data on cross-border deals involving more than 40 countries and identified a predictive relationship between changes in a country's foreign investment activity and future changes in its economic growth and currency values.
In a world facing rising economic uncertainty and instability, look to cross-border investment activity for solid clues about what's next for economic growth and foreign exchange rates.
That's a key finding by Steven Riddiough, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management, and Huizhong Zhang from Australia's Monash University. They assessed nearly a quarter century of data on cross-border deals involving more than 40 countries and identified a predictive relationship between changes in a country's foreign investment activity and future changes in its economic growth and currency values.