June 2022: New IMF Blog Article – Dollar Dominance and the Rise of Nontraditional Reserve Currencies
By Serkan Arslanalp, Barry Eichengreen and Chima Simpson-Bell The US dollar has long played an outsized role in global markets. It continues to do so even as the American economy has been producing a shrinking share of global output over the last two decades. But although the currency’s presence in global trade, international debt, and non-bank borrowing still[…]