Import Transaction Balance of Payments Flexible Exchange Rates The Market for Currency Determinants of Exchange Rates Fixed Exchange Rates Exchange Controls and Ra Transactions Take Pla
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Rates, and Trade Deficits
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U.S Export Transaction
U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
Transactions Take Place
• About the Balance Sheet the United States Uses to Account for the International
Payments it Makes and Receives
• How Exchange Rates are Determined in Currency Markets
• The Difference Between Flexible Exchange Rates and Fixed Exchange Rates
• The Causes and Consequences of Recent Record-High U.S Trade Deficits
Trang 3International Transactions
• International trade
– Buy/sell current goods or services – Imports and exports
• International asset transactions
– Buy/sell real or financial assets
– Buy stock
– Sell your house to a foreigner
• Requires currency exchange
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
Financing International Trade
• U.S Export Transactions
• U.S Import Transactions
• Balance of Payments
• The Current Account
– Balance on Goods – Balance on Services – Trade Deficit
– Trade Surplus – Balance on Current Account
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
£150,000
£150,000 check drawn on British bank to pay for computers
£150,000 check is exchanged for
$300,000 at a New York bank New York bank sends £150,000 check to London bank for future sale to buyers who need pounds
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
£150,000 check purchased from U.S bank to pay for CDs for
$300,000
£150,000 check is exchanged for
CD purchase from supplier
CD firm deposits £150,000 check
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
Financing an American export reduces the supply of foreign currencies available and increases the domestic money supply.
U.S IMPORT TRANSACTION
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
Causes of Trade Deficit
• U.S Economic growth/consumption
• Large deficit with China and growing
• Rapidly rising oil imports and oil prices
• A declining savings rate in the U.S (average propensity to consume)
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
Australia Brazil
Netherlands
Canada China
Germany Japan
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
Financing International Trade
U.S Trade Balances in Goods and Services Select Nations, 2004 (compare China to ’99)
Goods and Services Surplus Good and Services Deficit
Australia Belgium
Canada China Germany
Mexico Netherlands
+6.8 -66.5
-45.8
+4.4 -162
Japan -75.6
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
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Show
U.S Trade Balances
Goods and Services, Select Nations, 2007
Surplus Deficit
Australia Belgium
Canada China Germany
Mexico Netherlands
+10.0 -67.0
-45.3
+9.8 -256.6
-77.3 +14.3
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis
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Japan -85.0
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
U.S Trade Balances
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Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
End
Show
Flexible Exchange Rates
• Demand for pounds
• Supply of pounds
• Market equilibrium
• Increase in dollar price of pounds
– Dollar depreciates – Pound appreciates
• Decrease in dollar price of pounds
– Dollar appreciates – Pound depreciates
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Foreign Currency (Pounds)
Dl
Sl
Dollar Depreciates (Pound
Appreciates)
Dollar Appreciates (Pound
Depreciates)
Exchange Rate: $2 = £1
$2
$3
$1
Ql
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• Determinants of exchange rates
• Factors that shift demand/supply
– Changes in tastes – Relative income changes – Relative price-level changes
• Purchasing-power-parity theory – Relative interest rates
– Relative expected returns on assets – Speculation
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Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Foreign Currency (Pounds)
Dl
Sl
Exchange Rate:
$3 = £1
Balance
Of Payments Deficit
Q2
b c
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• Eliminate balance of payments deficit or surplus
• Disadvantages of flexible exchange
rates – Volatility – Uncertainty and diminished trade – Terms-of-trade changes
– Instability
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– Restricted choice – Black markets
• Macroeconomic adjustments
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– Restricted choice – Black markets
• Macroeconomic adjustments
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Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
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• Large and persistent
• Causes of trade deficits
–High U.S growth (relatively)
–China
–Price oil
–Low U.S saving rate
• Implications of trade deficits
–Increased current consumption
–Increased indebtedness 38-26
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Balance on Current Account
U.S Trade Deficits
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Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
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Show
Speculation in Currency Markets
• Currency Purchases to Purchase Goods and Services
• Contributing to Currency Market Fluctuations
• Speculator’s Role and Activities
• Smoothing Short-Term Fluctuations
• Absorbing Risk
• Futures Market at Work
• Positive Role Played Overall
Negative or Positive Influence
on Currency Markets and Trade
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U.S Import Transaction
Balance of Payments
Flexible Exchange Rates
The Market for Currency
Determinants of Exchange
Rates
Fixed Exchange Rates
Exchange Controls and Ra
• official reserves
• flexible- or floating- exchange-rate system
• fixed-exchange-rate system
• purchasing-power-parity theory
• managed floating exchange rates