Timothy Meyer

Data on The Bilateral Composition of the U.S. External Position

For the paper „Asset Price Changes, External Wealth and Global Welfare“ in the Journal of International Economics, I have constructed a panel of bilateral gross positions, flows and capital gains on the U.S. Foreign Asset Position. The dataset covers up to around 80 countries. Data is monthly for Portfolio holdings and annual for FDI, the period covered is 2003-2021.

Importantly, the data restates holdings in tax havens and financial centers to their ultimate owners. The data also includes alternative restatements to assess the uncertainty inherent in this process.

For comments and questions please contact me at timothy.meyer@ifw-kiel.de or timothy.meyer@uni-bonn.de

When using the data, please cite

@article{meyer2025asset,
  title={Asset price changes, external wealth and global welfare},
  author={Meyer, Timothy},
  journal={Journal of International Economics},
  pages={104122},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}