Exorbitant Burden
Subtitle: The Impact of the U. S. Dollar's Reserve and Global Currency Status on the U. S. Twin-Deficits
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781785606410
Subjects: Dollar; Currency question, united states
Description: This economic and political science work is a rigorous analysis that demonstrates that although it is a privilege and a benefit for the US to have its currency, the dollar, as the leading world reserve currency, the privilege also proves to be a very significant economic and security burden imposed on the nation. But has the role of the dollar as a global currency and an international reserve asset actually rewarded the United States with an exorbitant privilege? This book focuses on the opposite end of exorbitant privilege spectrum: the exorbitant burden, the cost the very dollar reserve status impacts on the U.S. economy through the twin deficits. This economic and political science work is a rigorous quantitative analysis that demonstrates that although it is a privilege and a benefit for the US to have its currency, the dollar, as the leading world reserve currency, the privilege also proves to be a very significant economic and security burden imposed on the nation.--