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3.3 Balance of Payments
Introduction to the Balance of Payments
Instructions: Work with a partner. One student of each pair is assigned the “credit” job. The
other is assigned the “debit” role. Pairs work their way through this list of account categories.
For each one, identify an appropriate example of a credit or debit in that category. First use
either the
Wikipedia article on Balance of Payments or chapter 23 from your textbook (Pearson
Baccalaureate Economics ) to complete part 1 of the activity.
Part 1: Define each of the following:
1. The Current Account:
a. Current account goods balance:
b. Current account services balance
c. Current account income balance
d. Current account “transfers”
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2. Capital Account:
3. Financial Account:
a. Financial account direct investment
b. Financial account portfolio investment
c. Financial account other investment
d. Financial account reserve assets
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Part 2:Consider examples of transactions in each of the categories in the current and financial
Italy
accounts that you defined above. Using as the “home nation”, describe one transaction in
each of the accounts that would count as a “credit” (results in an inflow of money in nation’s BoP
accounts) and one transaction that would count as a “debit” (results in an outflow of money in
the nation’s BoP accounts).
Current account:
1. Goods balance :
a. Credit:
b. Debit:
2. Services:
a. Credit:
b. Debit:
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3. Income (remittances):
a. Credit:
b. Debit:
4. Current account “transfers”:
a. Credit:
b. Debit:
Capital account: Measures the transfer of capital or fixed assets between the government or
firms in a country and all other countries.
Capital Transfers:
● Credits :
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● Debits:
Financial account:
Measures net change in foreign ownership of domestic assets and
domestic ownership of foreign assets.
Direct Investment/Physical Assets:
● Credits:
● Debits:
Portfolio/Financial Assets:
● Credits:
● Debits:
Research:
Now go to the CIA World Factbook for Italy
and determine…
● Italy’s current account balance:
● The value of Italy’s commodity exports:
● The value of commodity imports into Italy:
● Explain why Italy’s current account balance is not equal to the its commodity export
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revenues minus it expenditures on commodity imports.