Foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury securities: what the data show and do not show

Dorothy M. Sobol

Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 1998, vol. 4, issue May

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Treasury bills; Investments, Foreign - United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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