Authors:

  • Kenneth Rogoff

Excerpt

Japan’s exorbitant privilege. Kenneth Rogoff, February 18, 2015, Paper. "The concept of "exorbitant privilege" [euro] has received great attention from policy makers as well as academics worldwide. The idea originally referred to the willingness of foreigners to hold large quantities of US government debt at extremely low interest rates, due to the dollar's world reserve currency status. In recent years, the term exorbitant privilege has been expanded to explain why the US appears to be enjoying excess return from its external assets over liabilities across all asset classes, including foreign direct investment, equities and other forms of portfolio investment..." Link