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...

The successful accession to membership in the European Union (EU) by the current transition-economy applicants, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Poland, will depend to a large extent on their ability to align themselves with the institutions and the macroeconomic...

Privatization has been studied primarily from the standpoint of the post-privatization performance of state-owned firms (SOEs) or of various ways of valuing and privatizing them, but little attention has been paid to the timing of privatization. In this paper we use real options analysis to...