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Privilege Lost? The Rise and Fall of a Dominant Global Currency

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  • Kai Arvai
  • Nuno Coimbra
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How does a country obtain the status of a safe haven with a dominant global currency? This paper argues that size matters: as a country becomes larger and more diversified, the underlying shock process of the economy becomes less variable. Shocks that can drive a government to default become less likely, implying lower default probability, lower interest rates and higher debt-to-GDP. Furthermore, the larger a country’s share in the supply of global safe assets, the more liquid and attractive its bonds are for investors. If the dominant currency country grows less than the rest of the world, its status as a safe haven erodes and interest rate differentials decline. This could explain the recent evidence of shrinking US return differentials on its cross-border bond portfolios.

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  • Kai Arvai & Nuno Coimbra, 2023. "Privilege Lost? The Rise and Fall of a Dominant Global Currency," Working papers 932, Banque de France.
    • Handle: RePEc:bfr:banfra:932
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    1. Garofalo, Marco & Rosso, Giovanni & Vicquéry, Roger, 2024. "Dominant currency pricing transition," Bank of England working papers 1074, Bank of England.

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    Keywords

    Dominant Currency; Safe Assets; US Dollar; Default;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative

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