Operations of U.S. Multinational Companies in the United States and Abroad - Preliminary Results From the 2009 Benchmark Survey

摘要

PRELIMINARY results from the 2009 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) indicate that slow growth in the operations of U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) during the first decade of the 21st century, compared with growth in the preceding decade, was accompanied by a change in the geographic distribution of growth (see the appendix for more information about benchmark surveys). The statistics in this series now cover the operations of bank MNCs as well as those of nonbank MNCs; previously, coverage was limited to the operations of nonbank MNCs.