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Reinvested Earnings Bias, The ???Five Percent??? Rule and the Interpretation of the Balance of Payments ??? With an Application to Transition Economies

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  • Josef C. Brada
  • Vladim??r Tom????k

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We show that the imputation of reinvested profits of the subsidiaries of foreign firms as a debit item on a host country's balance of payments account tends to overstate the current account deficit. We also show that, because of the workings of the FDI financial life cycle, this phenomenon is most evident for countries that have recently received large inflows of capital. The transition economies of East Europe certainly fall among such countries, and we show that, for the Czech Republic and Hungary, this imputation has a large effect on their reported current account balance. We verify the working of the FDI financial life cycle using two different panels of developed, developing and transition economies.

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  • Josef C. Brada & Vladim??r Tom????k, 2003. "Reinvested Earnings Bias, The ???Five Percent??? Rule and the Interpretation of the Balance of Payments ??? With an Application to Transition Economies," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 543, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
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    Keywords

    balance of payments; financial crisis; foreign direct investment; transition economies;
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems

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