insurance assessment, while foreign deposits are not. This paper examines the arguments for and against extending this … assessment to foreign branch deposits of insured banks, which in the aggregate amount to more than $200 billion. These arguments … incidence effects on loan and deposit customers in a three sector--money center banks, foreign banks, and regional and smaller …

Counter to extant stylized facts, using newly available data on country allocations in U.S. investors' foreign equity ….S. investors' foreign equity portfolios outperformed a value-weighted foreign benchmark by 160 basis points per year. …

and equities within their U.S. portfolios. The poor timing of foreign investors--caused primarily by deliberate trading … entirely by the poor timing of rich, developed (mainly European) countries. Finally, while poor foreign timing appears to be …

examine the implications for U.S. yields of the portfolio preferences of foreign creditors. We present evidence that, in the … spirit of Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2009), foreign investors during this period tended to prefer U.S. assets perceived to … be safe. In particular, foreign investors--especially the GSG countries--acquired a substantial share of the new issues …

, at both the firm and country level, negatively impacts the willingness of foreign investors to hold a firm's equity …

, that at a point in time U.S. portfolios are tilted towards firms that are large, have fewer restrictions on foreign …-documented underweighting of foreign stocks, emerging market equities that are cross-listed on a U.S. exchange are incorporated into U …

of foreign stocks. We document that U.S. cross-listings are economically important, as U.S. ownership in a foreign firm …

Since 2001, foreign investors have acquired roughly $5 trillion in U.S. securities--more than doubling their holdings …. Although the rapid growth of foreign holdings of U.S. securities raises concerns that foreign investors may have become too … heavily weighted in U.S. assets, foreign investors have not in fact materially changed the relative allocations between U …