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International Economics 6Th Edition James Gerber Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
International Economics 6Th Edition James Gerber Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
◼ Outline
Introduction: The Current Account
The Trade Balance
The Current Account Balance
Introduction to the Financial and Capital Accounts
Types of Financial Flows
Limits on Financial Flows
Case Study: The Crisis of 2007–2009 and the Balance of Payments
International Debt
Case Study: Odious Debt
Once they understand the basic accounting, students can consider the deeper implications of the balance of
payments framework. The implications of a current account deficit or surplus on the financial account side
should become clear. Students should realize that trade flows are related to savings and investment
balances and cannot be treated as a separate independent variable.
The 6th edition maintains the focus of the previous edition. The case study on the impact of the recent
financial crisis on the U.S. balance of payments has been updated, and the emphasis continues to focus on
the very visible shift in financial flows, with the intent to give an idea of some of the impacts of the crisis.
The second case study examines the potential causes and consequences of the large and growing U.S.
current account deficits which are addressed in both historical and policy terms.
The chapter includes an analysis of international debt. The notions of unsustainable debt and debt service
are important for students who are used to hearing nominal dollar figures and flows, if they have heard
anything about debt at all. The extension to debt forgiveness and the situation of Highly Indebted Poor
Countries rounds out the discussion of non-trade issues.
◼ Assignment Ideas
1. Students should be introduced to the data on the U.S. balance of payments available from the Bureau
of Economic Analysis at www.bea.gov. You may find it useful to provide data if the source is too
complicated for the students to navigate in a reasonable amount of time, and to ask them to write a
one- or two-page narrative describing the table. The goal is to encourage them to write like an
economic journalist and to show they understand the concepts by making them clear and accessible to
someone who has not studied this chapter.
2. Similarly, the IMF’s Balance of Payments Statistics is available in most research libraries and is a
very clear presentation of data for the most of the world’s nations. They provide both a detailed view
and a condensed view. Students should be able to navigate the condensed view without too many
problems. A short paper on a country before and during a crisis, or comparing a high-savings and
low-savings country, or trends in a country over time, are all possibilities.
3. The Bureau of Economic Analysis also provides data on the international investment position of the
United States, along with information on foreign direct investment, broken down by sector and by
country, both for inward and outward investment. It is useful for students to see where the
United States invests outside its border and what types of direct investments are most common.
Similarly, a look at inward direct investment is useful for building their background knowledge
of the economy and for learning to navigate tables of data.
Answers:
a. The current account is 500 + 200 − 600 − 300 + 250 = −250
b. The capital account is 100 + 400 − 20 − 30 − 250 = 200
c. The statistical discrepancy is –1 (–250 + 200) = –250
2. Look at each of the cases below from the point of view of the balance of payments for the United
States. Determine the subcategory of the current account or financial account that each transaction
would be classified in, and state whether it would enter as a credit or debit.
a. The U.S. government sells gold for dollars.
b. A migrant worker in California sends $500 home to his village in Mexico.
c. An American mutual fund manager uses the deposits of his fund investors to buy Brazilian
telecommunication stocks.
d. A Japanese firm in Tennessee buys car parts from a subsidiary in Malaysia.
e. An American church donates five tons of rice to the Sudan to help with famine relief.
f. An American retired couple flies from Seattle to Tokyo on Japan Airlines.
g. The Mexican government sells pesos to the United States Treasury and buys dollars.
Answers:
a. The United States “exports” official reserve assets; it is a credit in the capital account.
b. A resident of the United States unilaterally transfers money to a foreign locale; it is a debit in the
current account.
c. There is an “import” of foreign assets; it is a debit in the capital account under the category of a
net change in U.S. private assets abroad.
d. An American-based producer imports goods; it is a debit in the current account.
e. There is a unilateral transfer from the United States to abroad foreign country; it is a debit in the
current account.
f. American residents purchase a service from a foreign firm; it is a debit in the current account.
g. There is a net increase in nonreserve foreign assets held by the U.S. government; it is a debit in
the capital account.
Answer: Trade deficits are generally considered a negative for a country, but the reality is more
subtle. On the negative side, large deficits signal that a country is accumulating foreign
debt that can be difficult to service if the excess imports are not used to enhance national
productivity. Furthermore, trade deficits require capital inflows. If foreign investors lose
confidence, it may be difficult to search the necessary foreign reserves. This is partly
what happened to Mexico in 1994 and Thailand and Indonesia in 1997.
On the positive side, a large trade deficit can also signal that foreigners have confidence
in the current set of economic policies and the future prospects of the economy.
Furthermore, and most importantly, a large trade deficit and the attendant capital inflows
allow a higher level of investment than would be possible solely on the basis of domestic
savings.
4. Is the budget deficit of a country linked to its current account balance? How so? Explain how it is
possible for the United States’ current account deficit to grow while the budget deficit has
disappeared.
Answer: The budget deficit and the current account are linked but there are the other variables of
domestic private savings and domestic investment that are also joined in the savings-
investment balance. For this reason, there is no such thing as a one-to-one correspondence
between budget and trade balances. The basic relationship is captured in the equation
(4b in the text): Sp + government budget = I + current account. From this it can be seen
that as the government budget went to zero and the current account became more
negative, either savings fell, investment rose, or some combination of the two occurred.
5. Compare and contrast portfolio capital flows with direct investment capital flows.
Answer: These two types of capital flows are similar in that they both provide a nation with the use
of foreign savings. That is, they both represent capital flows that are a net increase in the
amount of resources available for investment. On the other hand, they are very different
in the time dimensions that they represent and in their liquidity. FDI is illiquid and
generally represents funds with a longer time horizon than portfolio capital. Portfolio
investment can move in or out of a nation extremely quickly and is the main focus of
concerns about the destabilizing effects of foreign investment.
Answer: A current account surplus leads to the net accumulation of foreign assets, whether real or
financial. In either case, there is the prospect of a future stream of revenue that will be
generated from the assets.
Another way to look at it is to consider that in order to export a greater value than
imports, a nation must not consume some of its income (production). Instead, the goods and
services are sent abroad. The effect is the same as domestic investment: Consumption out
of current period production is postponed until a future date, and the excess output is used
to increase the capacity of the economy to generate a future stream of income
(production).
Title: Gold
A play in four acts
Language: English
Credits: Mary Glenn Krause, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive)
PLAYS BY
EUGENE G. O’NEILL
————
THE MOON OF THE
CARIBBEES
and Six Other Plays of
the Sea
BEYOND THE
HORIZON
THE STRAW
GOLD
Gold
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS
BY
EUGENE G. O’NEILL
Copyright, 1920, by
Boni & Liveright, Inc.