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World Map Revision of the Fifth Edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: Papers of the Direct Investment Technical Expert Group

Last Updated: July 26, 2006

Information on the functions of the four technical expert groups (TEGs) can be found on the TEG introductory page.

DITEG BOPCOM List of Issues (111 kb PDF file)

DITEG Consolidated BOPCOM/WIIS List of Issues (260 kb PDF file)

Summary of Outcomes of the First DITEG Meeting, June 15-17, 2004 (89 kb PDF file)

Summary of Outcomes of the Second DITEG Meeting, December 6-9, 2004

Summary of Outcomes of the Third DITEG Meeting, March 7-11, 2005


Issues Papers

#1 Valuation Of Direct Investment Equity Stocks, ECB (245 kb PDF file)
#1A Valuation of Direct Investment Branches, IMF (125 kb PDF file)
#1B Valuation of Direct Investment Equity, Australian Bureau of Statistics (97 kb PDF file)
#1(i) Valuing Direct Investment Equity, BEA (10 kb PDF file)
#2 Direct Investment - 10 Percent Threshold Of Voting Power/Equity Ownership, Employment, OECD and Service Centrale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Luxembourg (177 kb PDF file)
#3 Fully Consolidated System, Bank of Japan (132 kb PDF file)
#3 Indirect FDI Relationships, ECB (155 kb PDF file)
#3 Indirect Investment: Defining the Scope of the Direct Investment Relationship, IMF (160 kb PDF file)
#3 Determining Direct Investment Relationships, Australian Bureau of Statistics (190 kb PDF file)
#4 Direct Investment: Transactions Associated with Mergers and Acquisitions, Statistics Canada (104 kb PDF file)
#4 Mergers and Acquisitions, OECD (177 kb PDF file)
#4, 28 and 29 Mergers And Acquisitions (M&As), Greenfield Investments and Extension of Capacity, OECD (377 kb PDF file)
#5A Reinvested Earnings, Australian Bureau of Statistics (105 kb PDF file)
#5B Reinvested Earnings of Indirectly-owned Direct Investment Enterprises, IMF(121 kb PDF file)
#6&19
(combined)
Bringing Together Direct Investment-related Issues, IMF (8 kb PDF file)
#7&8
(combined)
Reverse Investment and Directional Principle, IMF
(138 kb PDF file)
#7&8
(combined)
Directional Principle and Reverse Investment, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (397 kb PDF file)
#9The Sector Classification of Special Purpose Entities, De Nederlandsche Bank (315 kb PDF file)
#11Inclusion in Direct Investments of Transactions Between Financial SPE's and Affiliated (Non-Financial) Companies, ECB (295 kb PDF file)
#12Country Identification (Ultimate Beneficial Owner/Ultimate Destination And Immediate Host/Investing Country), Eurostat (256 kb PDF file)
#12Country Identification: Ultimate Beneficiary Owner / Ultimate Destination Versus Immediate Host / Immediate Investing Country (190 kb PDF file)
#12iCountry Identification-Use of Ultimate Owner Classifications in United States Inward Direct Investment Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (315 kb PDF file)
#13 Round Tripping, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong, China (144 kb PDF file)
#14 Permanent Debt Between Affiliated Financial Intermediaries, IMF (267 kb PDF file)
#14 Permanent Debt, Bank of Japan (267 kb PDF file)
#15 Land And Buildings Owned By Nonresidents on a Long-Term Leasehold Basis, IMF (308 kb PDF file)
#16 Maturity and Instrument Split for Direct Investment
#20 Definition of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Terms, Statistics Canada (152 kb PDF file)
#21 Various Special Cases - Banking Activities, National Bank of Belgium (249 kb PDF file)
#21A Intercompany Remittances, Bank of England (120 kb PDF file)
#21B Shipping Companies' FDI Relationships, Bank of Greece (118 kb PDF file)
#21C Various Special Cases, Including Natural Recourse Exploration and Construction, Bank of Russia (120 kb PDF file)
#22 FDI - Other Capital (With Focus On Short-Term), Balance of Payments and Financial Accounts Department, De Nederlandsche Bank (377 kb PDF file)
#23 Intercompany Transactions and Amount Outstanding With Fellow Subsidiaries, Ufficio Italiano dei Cambi (Italy), Statistics Department (361 kb PDF file)
#24 FDI Stocks - Financial Versus Economic Measurement, National Bank of Belgium (122 kb PDF file)
#25 Valuation of Real Estate, Balance of Payments Directorate, Banque de France (191 kb PDF file)
#27 Principles for Classification by Industry (According to Direct Investor or Direct Investment Enterprise), Eurostat (252 kb PDF file)
#30 Mutual Funds, Bank of Japan (210 kb PDF file)

Outcome Papers

#1A Valuation of Direct Investment Equity (97 kb PDF file), August 12, 2004
#1A Valuation of Direct Investment Equity, April 8, 2005 (10 kb PDF file)
#1B Valuation of Branches (159 kb PDF file)
#2 Direct Investment:10 Percent Threshold of Voting Power/Equity Ownership, Employment (109 kb PDF file)
#3 Indirect FDI Relationships and Alternatives to the Fully Consolidated System (159 kb PDF file)
#3 Indirect Investment: Fully Consolidated System, U.S. Method or 50 Per Cent Ownership (10 kb PDF file)
#4,28&29 Determining Direct Investment Relationships (345 kb PDF file)
#5A Reinvested Earnings (159 kb PDF file)
#5B Reinvested Earnings of Indirectly-owned Direct Investment Enterprises(159 kb PDF file)
#6&19
(combined)
Bringing Together All Direct Investment-related Issues(159 kb PDF file)
#7&8 Reverse Investment and Directional Principle (247 kb PDF file)
#9 (1) Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and Holding Companies (159 kb PDF file)
#9 (2) Sector Classification of Holding Companies that are Special Purpose Entities (297 kb PDF file)
#10 Criteria for Identifying Branches (77 kb PDF file)
#11B SPEs: Inclusion in Direct Investment of Transactions Between Non-Financial DIE and Affiliated Financial SPE (15 kb PDF file)
#12i Country Identification: Three Methods to Determine Ultimate Benificiary Owner and Ultimate Beneficiary Affiliate (379 kb PDF file)
#12i Country Identification on the basis of Ultimate Beneficiary Owner and Ultimate Beneficiary Affiliate (9 kb PDF file)
#13 Round Tripping (239 kb PDF file)
#14 Permanent Debt Between Affiliated Financial Intermediaries, February 9, 2005 (237 kb PDF file)
#14 Permanent Debt Between Affiliated Financial Intermediaries, April 8, 2005 (8 kb PDF file)
#15 Long-Term Leases on Land and Buildings (10 kb PDF file)
#16 Use of Maturity and Instrument Split (190 kb PDF file)
#20 Definition of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Terms (18 kb PDF file)
#21 Various Special Cases—Banking Activities (194 kb PDF file)
#21 Various Special Cases - Banking Entities (12 kb PDF file)
#21A Intercompany Remittances (190 kb PDF file)
#21B Various Special Cases: Shipping (8 kb PDF file)
#21C Various Special Cases: Construction and Natural Resource Exploration (5 kb PDF file)
#22 FDI - Other Capital (With Focus On Short-Term), Balance of Payments and Financial Accounts Department (247 kb PDF file)
#23 Inter-Company Transactions and Amounts Outstanding With Fellow Subsidiaries (6 kb PDF file)
#24 Direct Investment Stocks: Financial Versus Economic Measurement (10 kb PDF file)
#25 Valuation of Real Estate (5 kb PDF file)
#27 Principles for Classification by Industry (According to Direct Investor or Direct Investment Enterprise) (10 kb PDF file)
#30 Mutual Funds (Units, Sectorization, Residence, Transactions) (7 kb PDF file)

Background Papers

#1 Valuation of Direct Investment Equity Stocks: Outcome of the Questionnaire and Follow-up Proposals, ECB (159 kb PDF file)
#1 Task Force on Foreign Direct Investment Full Report [Extract], Eurostat and ECB (245 kb PDF file)
#1 Valuing The Direct Investment Position In U.S. Economic Accounts, US Bureau of Economic Analysis (183 kb PDF file)
#1 International Accounting Standards and Valuation of Direct Investment Equity Stocks, ECB (344 kb PDF file)
#1 Valuation of FDI Stocks: Remaining Conceptual Issues of the "Own Funds at Book Value" Method, ECB (157 kb PDF file)
#2 A Proposal for a New Definition of FDI, Service Centrale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Luxembourg (141 kb PDF file)
#3 Cross Holdings of Investments and Direct Investment Relationships, Australian Bureau of Statistics (230 kb PDF file)
#4 The Treatment of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) in Direct Investment Statistics: The Case of M&As Involving an Exchange of Securities, Banque de France (146 kb PDF file)
#4 Mergers And Acquisitions Mini-Review 2003, United Kingdom (122 kb PDF file)
#4 Direct Investment : Transactions Associated with Mergers and Acquisitions, Central Bank of Tunisia (138 kb PDF file)
#7 The Application of the Directional Principle, De Nederlandsche Bank (172 kb PDF file)
#7A Compilation of Direct Investment Statistics in Ireland-Selected Topics, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
(222 kb PDF file)
#9and11
(combined)
Special Purpose Entities, De Nederlandsche Bank
(120 kb PDF file)
#9 Definition of Special Purpose Entities, Balance of Payments and Financial Accounts Department, De Nederlandsche Bank (401 kb PDF file)
#9 Statistical Treatment of Special Purpose Vehicles and Related Issues, ECB (388 kb PDF file)
#9 Special Purpose Entities and the Measurement of Foreign Direct Investment (Some Further Considerations), De Nederlandsche Bank (346 kb PDF file) and annex (112 kb PDF file)
#26 Accounting Methods and the International Accounting Standards, Balance of Payments Department, Bank of Russia (275 kb PDF file)
#30 Retained Earnings of Mutual Funds, and Rerouting of Investment Income of Technical Reserves of Life Insurance Enterprises and Pension Funds, ECB (139 kb PDF file)

See also:

BOPTEG #5 Criteria for Identification of Branches, IMF (13 kb PDF file)
BOPTEG #9 Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and Holding Companies, IMF (24 kb PDF file)
BOPTEG #9A Special Purpose Entities (SPEs), Australian Bureau of Statistics (19 kb PDF file)
BOPTEG #10 Residency of Special Purpose Entities, De Nederlandsche Bank (14 kb PDF file)
BOPTEG #18 Direct Investment - Reinvested Earnings, De Nederlandsche Bank (33 kb PDF file)