Prior research has shown that the maturity structure of a country’s external liabilities gets longer as a result of capital controls.

先前的研究一直表明，由于资本控制，一国的外债到期结构可以延续较长的时间。

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Since then it has narrowed, helped by sterling's fall (almost all of Britain's external assets are in foreign currency but only around 60% of its liabilities).

自那以后，由于英镑的下滑，该差幅缩小了一些(外汇几乎占了英国所有的国外资产，而仅占外债的约60%)。

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Although central banks hold a small share of the stock of America's external liabilities, they have become big marginal buyers.

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The FROB had ordered external valuations, which found that their liabilities far exceeded their assets.

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