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{"title":"Discussant's comments on “International statistical co-operation”","authors":"L. Cook","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"42 1","pages":"163-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73466975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalization and multinational companies: What are the questions, and how well are we doing in answering them?","authors":"J. Steven Landefeld, Ralph H. Kozlow","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20206","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the U.S. experience and uses it as a benchmark for identifying the key questions that are being asked about the role and influence of MNC's and the types of statistics that are required to answer those questions. The paper goes on to assess whether the U.S. statistics that are now available are adequate to help us answer those questions. Finally, it identifies steps that might be considered to address data weaknesses and to help policy makers and other data users -- both in the United States and abroad -- better answer the important questions that they now are asking about the impact of foreign direct investment.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"4 1","pages":"111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86909859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeing the whole elephant: A proposed experiment on measuring the activities of multinational enterprises","authors":"Richard Barnabé","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20213","url":null,"abstract":"A multinational enterprise (MNE) is a firm that has productive capacity in a number of countries. The profit and income flows it generates are part of foreign capital flows moving among nations. The role of multinational enterprises, or transnational corporations, becomes more important as countries adopt more open outward oriented approaches to economic growth and development. From the point of view of national statistical offices (NSOs), it has become a more pressing and significant challenge to provide illuminating insights into the functioning and role of multinational enterprises. MNEs, however, operate across geo-political boundaries and do not necessarily regard these boundaries as dominant factors in determining their forms of organization and information systems. The paper from Statistics Canada proposes to launch an experiment on measuring the activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Its major objective is to identify areas where more standardized and/or co-ordinated approaches in measuring the activities of MNEs could contribute to improved national and international economic statistics.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"83 1","pages":"173-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88156731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"OECD's efforts to measure the activities of multinational enterprises","authors":"A. Wyckoff, Thomas Hatzichronoglou","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"65 1","pages":"89-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83448127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact effect of globalisation on traditional statistical systems","authors":"Anna Meskó, Mária Farkasházi","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"23 1","pages":"145-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80903503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalisation: new needs for statistical measurement","authors":"R. Lynch, T. Clayton","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20207","url":null,"abstract":"• the behaviour and performance of firms which operate across several countries; • relationships between firms across national boundaries; • the increasing ability of consumers to access international suppliers; • the international exploitation of intangible assets within firms, also accessible to consumers; • the decreasing importance of geography in the choices firms make about where to carry out specific parts of their operations, how much of their operations they choose to do themselves, and how they finance them.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"76 1","pages":"121-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90839507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An overview of the CES seminar on 'Globalization and its impact on the world statistical system'","authors":"Philip Smith","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"2015 1","pages":"77-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86105572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Co-ordinated Portfolio Investment Survey – A model to follow?","authors":"S. Quin","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20212","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, countries have experienced difficulty in adjusting their data collection systems to the growth in the scale and complexity of international financial transactions. For portfolio investment, this may have resulted in a significant underreporting of both transactions in and holdings of portfolio investment assets. Concern over this development led the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (IMF Committee) to promote the idea of an internationally co-ordinated benchmark survey of cross-border portfolio investment asset holdings broken down by the country of residence of the issuer. This paper reviews experience in conducting the first Co-ordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) for end-December 1997 (in which twenty-nine mostly industrial countries participated), and the second CPIS for end-December 2001 (in which sixty-seven countries participated, covering all groups except some oil-exporting countries). The paper notes that the CPIS has achieved many of the objectives envisaged by the IMF Committee, including (i) the development and implementation by national compilers of best practices in conducting benchmark surveys of portfolio investment asset positions; (ii) provision of partner country data sources to national compilers for portfolio investment liability positions; (iii) creation of a global database for portfolio investment asset and liability positions (the latter from creditor sources). The paper discusses further work that is planned to fill gaps in the coverage of the CPIS database, reviews the role of the IMF in facilitating the efforts of participating countries, and draws lessons from the CPIS that can be applied to other projects in which an international agency can play a facilitating and co-ordinating role in working directly with interested national compilers to improve national and global statistics.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"59 1","pages":"165-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76158843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discussant's comments on \"Impact of globalisation on traditional statistical systems\".","authors":"Svein Longva","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20205","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this session were to identify globalisation issues that require action from the statistical community as well as to discuss future actions by the NSIs and international statistical organisations. At the session on the “Impact of Globalisation on Traditional Statistical Systems”, three invited papers were presented. These three papers emphasise different aspects of the subject matter. The paper submitted by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE, France) has a national concern and discusses why statisticians have to consider and measure financial results, assets and liabilities of subsidiaries abroad in order to assess profitability within the national territory. The paper by the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) concentrates on the role and influence of multinational companies (MNC) and the types of statistics that are required to answer those questions, i.e. “totality of the whole picture of multinationals”. The paper by the Office for National Statistics (ONS, United Kingdom) attempts to approach the subject matter both at the national and at the international level, i.e. ”looking at the elephant and understanding its various parts”. 1. ONS, UK: Globalisation – new needs for statistical measurement After discussing several measurement, classification and coverage issues, problems of national units in multinational enterprises, BoP and electronic trade issues, the ONS paper concludes by emphasising the need to understand and improve the data collection in these fields and the need to clarify the relationship between national and business accounting. The paper discusses the subject matter in a very detailed way and brings into mind several concerns. The following are especially worth highlighting: – Coordinated use of standards – Recording production of services according to the CPA (Classification of Products by Activity) is not compatible with export and import recording of services according to EBOPS (Extended Balance of Payments Services). As pointed out in the paper, efforts should be made to ensure that BoP reporting and other national reporting are compatible. – Transfer prices – Transfer pricing has a crucial impact on income and cost statements of the MNCs. But how should we address this very important quality issue? National laws on statistics in most countries do not let NSIs gather data from the MNCs as such.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"6 1","pages":"107-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87381435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The analysis of firms' profitability: Why statisticians have to tackle globalisation issues","authors":"R. Depoutot","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"13 1","pages":"135-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86462364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}