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BPEA | 1985 No. 11985, No. 1
THIS PAPER ADDRESSES four topics: the recent composition of U.S. international capital flows; capital flows and alternative hypotheses about the dollar’s appreciation; concerns about U.S. net international indebtedness; and the plausibility that the depreciation of the dollar will be gradual.