Return on Cross-Border Investment: Why Does U.S. Investment Abroad Do Better? Technical Paper 2004-17

Juann H. Hung and Angelo Mascaro

No 16204, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Despite the large size of U.S. net financial obligations to foreigners, U. S. residents have continued to earn more income on their assets abroad than foreigners have on their assets in the United States. In other words, the rate of return on U.S.-owned assets abroad is still higher than the rate of return on foreign-owned assets in the United States. The advantageous return gap for U.S. investment has reflected the much greater return on U.S. direct investments abroad than that on foreign direct investments in the United States. We investigate the

Date: 2004-12-02
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