Foreign Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities: What the Data Show and Do Not Show

Sobol, Dorothy

doi:10.2139/ssrn.997408

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Foreign Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities: What the Data Show and Do Not Show

Dorothy Sobol

Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

May 1998

Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 1998

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The Treasury Department makes available to the public considerable information about foreign holdings of its securities. Nevertheless, it is not possible to determine from the published data exactly which foreigners own U.S. Treasury debt and how much of this debt is in foreign hands.

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Keywords: Treasury securities, foreign holdings of Treasuries

JEL Classification: F3, G1

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Sobol, Dorothy, Foreign Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities: What the Data Show and Do Not Show (May 1998). Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=997408 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.997408

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