International investment position (IIP)

in general, the financial assets and liabilities of an economy vis-à-vis other countries at a given date in the form of stock data valued at their market price. – Stock statistics collected and observed by the ECB in this respect and reported in the respective Monthly Bulletin. It comprises the value and composition of the euro area’s net financial assets and net financial liabilities vis-à-vis all other currency areas. The balance constitutes the so-called net external position of the euro area. – At the end of 2007, the sum of Germany’s statistically recorded financial claims on and liabilities to foreign countries amounted to 3.8 times its gross domestic product. – See foreign affiliates, foreign debt, government spreads, Plan C, repatriation effect, sovereign default, government debt, effects. – See the annex “Euro area statistics” in the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin, heading “External sector,” subheading “International investment position,” as well as the “Notes” thereto, ECB Monthly Bulletin of December 2002, p. 78 ff, ECB Monthly Bulletin of May 2005, p. 61 ff, ECB Monthly Report of January 2007, p. 56 ff. (there also breakdown into individual components; valuation problems; overviews), ECB Monthly Report of January 2008, p. 64 ff. (breakdown of the international investment position by instrument and by rate of change; overviews 1999 to 2006), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of October 2008, p. 15 ff. (German international investment position; numerous overviews), ECB Monthly Report of July 2009, pp. 67 ff. (developments 2000 to 2008; breakdown of financial transactions), ECB Monthly Report of December 2009, pp. 113 ff. (change in data collection method), ECB Monthly Report of February 2011, pp. 30 ff. (international investment position 2008 and 2009; overviews; important notes on the calculation in the footnotes), ECB Monthly Bulletin of January 2012, pp. 27 ff. (international investment position since 2007; trends; overviews), ECB Monthly Bulletin of January 2014, pp. 26 ff. (euro area international investment position since 2007; overviews), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Bulletin of May 2014, pp. 52 ff. (calculation issues; references), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of June 2014, pp. 59 ff. (change in coverage methodology, detailed presentation with overviews and important information in the notes), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of October 2014, pp. 24 ff. (important changes in coverage).

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