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U.S. investors' emerging market equity portfolios: a security-level analysis
Warnock, Francis E.; Edison, Hali J. (2003)
We analyze a unique data set and uncover a remarkable result that casts a new light on the home bias phenomenon. The data are comprehensive, security-level holdings of emerging market equities by U.S. investors. We document, as expected, that at a point in time U.S. portfolios are tilted towards firms that are large, have fewer restrictions on foreign ownership, or are cross-listed on a U.S. exchange. The size of the cross-listing effect is striking. In contrast to the well-documented underweighting of foreign stocks, emerging market equities that are cross-listed on a U.S. exchange are ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 771

Conference Paper
Country risk and the structure of international financial intermediation
Lessard, Donald R. (1986)
Proceedings

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Borrowing without debt? Understanding the U.S. international investment position
Klitgaard, Thomas; Higgins, Matthew; Tille, Cedric (2006)
Sustained large U.S. current account deficits have led some economists and policymakers to worry that future current account adjustment could occur through a sudden and disruptive depreciation of the dollar and a sharp drop in U.S. consumption. Two factors that, to date, have cast doubt on such concerns are the stability of U.S. net external liabilities and the minimal net income payments made by the United States on these liabilities. We show that the stability of the external position reflects sizable capital gains stemming from strong foreign equity markets and a weaker dollar - conditions ...
Staff Reports , Paper 271

Journal Article
Financial sector FDI and host countries: new and old lessons
Goldberg, Linda S. (2007-03)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the financial sectors of emerging economies soared during the 1990s, leaving many countries with banking sectors owned primarily by foreign institutions. While the implications of FDI into emerging markets are well documented, less clearly understood is how the host countries are affected by financial sector FDI specifically. An understanding of this relationship is crucial for countries formulating policy with respect to foreign banks. This article argues that many lessons learned from work on FDI into manufacturing and primary resource industries apply ...
Economic Policy Review , Volume 13 , Issue Mar , Pages 1-17

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Cross-border diversification in bank asset portfolios
Ostergaard, Charlotte; Driscoll, John C.; Buch, Claudia M. (2004)
Taking the mean-variance portfolio model as a benchmark, we compute the optimally diversified portfolio for banks located in France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. under different assumptions about currency hedging. We compare these optimal portfolios to the actual cross-border assets of banks from 1995-1999 and try to explain the deviations. We find that banks over-invest domestically to a considerable extent and that cross-border diversification entails considerable gain. Banks underweight countries which are culturally less similar or have capital controls in place. Capital controls have ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2004-26

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Financial centers and the geography of capital flows
Cleaver, Chad; Warnock, Francis E. (2002)
We examine an assumption common in empirical work on bilateral portfolio capital flows that the countries the flows are attributed to are also the countries of the security's issuer, seller, or ultimate buyer. We do this by estimating U.S. investors' holdings of debt and equities in over 40 countries and, for the same countries, foreign investors' holdings of U.S. debt and equities. A comparison of our estimates with data from benchmark surveys provides insight into U.S. data on international debt and equity transactions. We find that, contrary to the common assumption, the data do not track ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 722

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U.S. capital flows to China
Ehrlich, Edna E. (1987)
Research Paper , Paper 8705

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Core competencies, matching, and the structure of foreign direct investment: an update
Diez, Federico J.; Spearot, Alan C. (2012)
We develop a matching model of foreign direct investment to study how multinational firms choose between greenfield investment, acquisitions, and joint ownership. Firms must invest in a continuum of tasks to bring a product to market. Each firm possesses a core competency in the task space, but the firms are otherwise identical. For acquisitions and joint ownership, a multinational enterprise (MNE) must match with a local partner that may provide complementary expertise within the task space. However, under joint ownership, investment in tasks is shared by multiple owners and hence is subject ...
Working Papers , Paper 12-8

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Monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions
Bertaut, Carol C.; Tryon, Ralph W. (2007)
This paper reports monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions obtained by combining the (now) annual TIC surveys with monthly transactions data adjusted for various differences in the two reporting standards. Our approach is similar to that of Thomas, Warnock, and Wongswan (2004), but in addition to having a somewhat larger dataset we are able to make some simplifications to the numerical procedure used and we incorporate additional adjustments to the transactions data. This paper describes the procedure used and presents the monthly results. In addition, we discuss how the ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 910

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Foreign direct investment and indebted developing countries
Hickok, Susan; Arguelles, R. (1986)
Research Paper , Paper 8609

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