A Guide to BEA Statistics on U.S. Multinational Companies

Survey of Current Business, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 38-55, 1995

18 Pages Posted: 28 Jan 2010

Date Written: March 1995

Abstract

BEA’s statistics on U.S. multinational companies (MNC’s) provide a comprehensive and integrated data set for empirical analysis of MNC’s. Balance of payments data measure transactions between U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates, and direct investment position data measure the cumulative value of parents” investments in their affiliates. Financial and operating data provide a wide variety of indicators of the overall domestic and foreign operations of U.S. MNC’s. BEA’s statistics can help to answer such questions as "Where are U.S. MNC’s investing?" "Are U.S. companies shifting their operations abroad?" and "What portion of U.S. cross-border trade is between U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates?"

Keywords: foreign direct investment, multinational companies

JEL Classification: F23

Suggested Citation

Mataloni, Raymond J., A Guide to BEA Statistics on U.S. Multinational Companies (March 1995). Survey of Current Business, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 38-55, 1995, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1543403

Raymond J. Mataloni (Contact Author)

U.S. Department of Commerce ( email )

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Washington, DC
United States

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