The results for foreign cash tell a different story. The foreign cash to asset ratio rises by 77% or 5.2 percentage points from 6.8% to 12.0%, while the total foreign cash of MNCS (in dollars) rises by 440% in Figure 2. As with domestic cash, we recalculated Figure 2 and the regression using a balanced sample. In the balanced sample, total foreign cash rises by 580% (versus 440% in the full sample) and the cash to asset ratios rises by 5.4 percentage points (versus 5.2 percentage points in the full sample). Thus, the rise in foreign cash comes from a slight increase in the number of MNCs (8 percent), an increase in firm size, but also a significant increase in the foreign cash that firms choose to hold controlling for size. Since our interest is in a firm’s decision of how much cash to hold and how this has changed, not in explaining changes in firm size, our regressions use the cash to asset ratio as the dependent variable.