Download or read book Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers written by Mr.Gian Milesi-Ferretti and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note documents and assesses the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. It presents estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers, and places these into context by calculating the importance of these locations in the global aggregate of cross-border investment positions. It also reports some information on bilateral cross-border investment patterns, highlighting which countries engage in financial trade with small financial centers.