We use a portfolio-based framework to understand what drives the decline of the U.S. net foreign asset (NFA) position and the reversal in returns earned on the US NFA (exorbitant privilege). We show t
ABSTRACT This paper estimates the impact of regional export structures on the risk and return of regional export portfolios. The Markowitz model is used to assess the risk and return of export product
Cross border capital flows and returns on assets are two key variables in international macroeconomics. Difficult endogeneity issues plague any analysis of their correlations in aggregate data. This p