Overseas Manufacturing Investment and the Balance of Payments.

Rrh : Overseas Investment and Firm

A firm can serve overseas customers by exporting or by producing in the foreign market. Thus, ceteris paribus, one might expect increases in overseas investment to displace exports. However, most empirical work has found a positive relation between the two variables. We use a panel data set containing 25 years of data on 932 Japanese manufacturing firms to investigate the effect direct investme...

The Effects of Devaluation of Irans Balance of Payments

Devaluation has different effects on the structure of trade patterns in countries which have a fixed exchange rate regime. The experience of devaluation in many countries has clearly shown that devaluation policies have not always led to the improvement of their trade pattern structures. Some empirical studies have revealed that after employing devaluation, the real rate of money in some nation...

Australian farm investment: domestic and overseas issues

Farm investment is required for productivity, efficiency and profitability, but the need-impact relationships are quite complex because of the uncertainties of weather, biological product, and markets. Problems arise because of investment and economic cycles, and are compounded by uncertainties over government fiscal and investment policy. This paper reviews Australian farm investment character...

Changes in the methodology and classifications of the balance of payments and the international investment position statistics

BPM6 Implementation In October 2014 Eurostat starts data dissemination according to the requirements of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6), which was released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 and follows the fifth edition (BPM5) released in 1993. The BPM6 provides the standard framework for the compilation of statisti...

Imf Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics Balance of Payments Technical Expert Group (bopteg) Issues Paper 18 Direct Investment – Reinvested Earnings