The Rest of the World’s Dollar-Weighted Return on U.S. Treasurys

Zhengyang Jiang (), Arvind Krishnamurthy () and Hanno Lustig ()
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Zhengyang Jiang: Northwestern University
Arvind Krishnamurthy: Stanford University
Hanno Lustig: Stanford University

IMF Economic Review, 2024, vol. 72, issue 4, No 2, 1320-1346

Abstract: Abstract Since 1980, foreign investors have timed their purchases and sales of U.S. Treasurys to yield particularly low returns. Their annual “dollar-weighted” returns, measured by the internal rate of return on their purchases and sales of Treasury bonds, are over 3.26 percentage points (pp) lower than a buy-and-hold strategy over the same horizon. Their returns are 1.62 pp lower than the returns earned by domestic investors. We also explore the heterogeneity across foreign investors, and find that official investors and developing country investors underperform more than other foreign investors. Our results are consistent with theories in which foreign investors are price-inelastic buyers of safe dollar assets, and increase their demand for dollar assets in stress periods.

Date: 2024
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