The Balance of Payments and International Economic Linkages

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The Balance of Payments and International
Economic Linkages
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CHAPTER OVERVIEW

• I. BALANCE-OF-PAYMENT CATEGORIES
• II. THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS,
  SERVICES, AND CAPITAL
• III. COPING WITH CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICITS

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PART I.BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• A. THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS (B-O-P)
• 1. PURPOSE
• Measures all financial and economic
  transactions over
• a specified period of time.

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 2. Double-entry bookkeeping
• a. Currency inflows credits
• (earn foreign exchange)
• b. Currency outflows debits
• (expend foreign exchange)

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 3. Three Major Accounts
• a. Current
• b. Capital
• c. Official Reserves
• 4. Current Account
• records net flow of goods, services, and
  unilateral transfers.

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 5. Capital Account
• a. Function records public and
• private investment and lending.
• b. Inflows credits
• c. Outflows debits
• d. Transactions classified as
• 1.) portfolio
• 2.) direct
• 3.) short term

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 6. Official Reserves Account
• a. Function
• 1.) measures changes in
• international reserves
• owned by central banks.
• 2.) reflects surplus/deficit of
• a.) current account
• b.) capital account

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• b. Reserves consist of
• 1.) gold
• 2.) convertible securities
• 7. Net Effects
• a. Sum of all transactions must
• be zero
• 1.) current account
• 2.) capital account
• 3.) official reserves

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 8. Balance-of-payment Measures
• a. Definitions
• 1.) Basic Balance
• a.) consists of current
• account and long-term
• capital flows.
• b.) emphasizes long-term
• trends.
• c.) excludes short-term
• capital flows that heavily
• depend on temporary
• factors.

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BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTCATEGORIES

• 2.) Official Reserve Transactions
• Balance
• - measures adjustments needed
• by official reserves.

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PART II.THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS,
SERVICES, AND CAPITAL

• II. LINKS FROM INTERNATIONAL TO
• DOMESTIC FLOWS
• A. Introduction Global Linkages
• set of basic macroeconomic identities links
• domestic spending and production
• to
• current and capital accounts

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• B. Domestic Savings and Investment
• and the Capital Account
• 1. National Income Accounting
• a. National Income (NI) is either spent
  (C) or saved (S)
• NI C S (4.1)

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• b. National spending (NS) is
• divided into personal spending (C)
• and investment (I)
• NS C I (4.2)
• c. Subtracting (4.2) - (4.1)
• NI - NS S - I (4.3)
• If NI gtNS, S gt I which implies
• that surplus capital spent overseas.

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• d. In a freely-floating system,
• excess saving the capital account balance
• e. Implications
• 1. A nation which produces more
• than it spends has a net capital
• outflow producing a capital
• account deficit.

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• 2. A nation which spends more than it
  produces has a net capital inflow producing a
  capital account surplus.
• 3. A healthy economy will tend to
• run a current account deficit.

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• C. THE LINK BETWEEN THE CURRENT AND CAPITAL
  ACCOUNTS
• 1. Beginning identity
• NI - NS X - M (4.4)
• where X exports
• M imports
• X-Mcurrent account balance (CA)

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• 2. Combining (4.3) (4.4)
• S - I X - M (4.5)
• 3. If S - I Net Foreign Investment
  (NFI)
• NFI X - M (4.6)

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• 4. Implications
• a. If CA is in surplus, the nation must be a
  net exporter of capital.
• b. If CA is a deficit, the nation is a
• major capital importer.
• c. When NS gt NI, the excess must
• be acquired through foreign trade.

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• d. Solutions for Improving CA deficits
• 1.) Raise national income (output)
• relative to domestic investment (I).
• 2.) Increase (S) relative to domestic
  investment (I).

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• D. GOVERNMENT BUDGETS AND
• CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICITS
• 1. CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE
• CA Saving Surplus - Govt budget
• deficit

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THE INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF GOODS, SERVICES, AND
CAPITAL

• 2. CA Deficit means
• the nation is not saving enough to
  finance (I) and the deficit.
• 3. CA Surplus means
• the nation is saving more than needed
  to finance its (I) and deficit.

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PART III.COPING WITH THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

• I. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS UNLIKELY TO
• WORK
• A. Currency Depreciation
• B. Protectionism
• II. CURRENCY DEPRECIATION
• A. U.S. Experience Does not improve the
  trade deficit.

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COPING WITH THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

• B. Depreciations ineffective because
• 1. It takes time to affect trade.
• 2. J-Curve Effect
• states that a decline in currency
• value will initially worsen the
• deficit before improvement.

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COPING WITH THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

• III. PROTECTIONISM
• A. Trade Barriers used
• 1. Tariffs
• 2. Quotas
• B. Results
• Most likely will reduce both X and M.

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COPING WITH THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

• C. FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
• one protectionist solution would place limits
  on or eliminate foreign ownership leading to
  capital inflows.
• D. STIMULATE NATIONAL SAVING
• change the tax regulations and rates.

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COPING WITH THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

• III. SUMMARY CURRENT-ACCOUNT
• DEFICITS
• - neither bad nor good inherently
• 1. Since one countrys exports are
• anothers imports, it is not possible
• for all to run a surplus
• 2. Deficits may be a solution to the problem
  of different national propensities to save
  and invest.

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US BOP Data

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• briefrm/tables/ebr10.htm