1. Chapter 1 Keeping Up with a Changing World
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
AND
FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Chapter 1 Keeping Up with a Changing World
Third Edition
Trade Flows, Capital Flows, and the Balance of Payments
Joseph P. Daniels
David D. VanHoose
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2. International Economic Integration
International economic integration refers to the extent and strength of real-sector and financial-sector linkages among national economies.
Real Sector: The sector of the economy engaged in the production and sale of goods and services.
Financial Sector: The sector of the economy where individuals trade in financial assets.
Though economists tend to measure activity in these two sectors separately, an important point of this chapter is to show that they are linked.

3. Importance of the Global Market for Goods and Services
Over the last 35 years, the volume of world trade in goods and services has grown by almost 6 percent annually.
The cumulative effect of this growth is more than a five-fold increase in world trade.
As measured by the share of overall real-sector activity, world trade in goods and services has become more important to advanced and developing economies alike.

4. Growth of World Exports
During the past thirty years, world trade in goods and services has exhibited positive growth rates for all but two years.
SOURCE: International Monetary Fund, Economic Outlook, and authors’ estimates.

5. Selected Nation’s Trade
The global market for goods and services has become more important for individual nations. The percentage shown reflects each nation’s trade as a share of its overall economic activity.
SOURCE: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics, various issues, and authors’ estimates.

6. and Foreign Exchange Transactions
Growth of Trade
and Foreign Exchange Transactions

7. Cross-Border Transaction in Bonds and Equities
In Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, international transactions in bonds and equities have grown by more than 3,000 percent, 1000 percent, and 700 percent respectively.
SOURCE: Bank for International Settlements, International Financial Statistics, and authors’ estimates.

8. Top Twenty Globalized Nations
Ireland
Switzerland
Singapore
Netherlands
Sweden
Finland
Canada
Denmark
Austria
United Kingdom
Norway
United States
France
Germany
Portugal
Czech Republic
Spain
Israel
New Zealand
Malaysia
Source: Foreign Policy

9. The Top Global Companies Ranked by Foreign Assets
Company
Home Country
Industry 1
Vodaphone
United Kingdom
Telecommunication 2
General Electric
United States
Electrical 3
ExxonMobile
Petroleum 4
Vivendi Universal
France
Diversified 5
General Motors
Motor Vehicles 6
Royal Dutch/Shell
United Kingdom / Netherlands 7 BP 8
Toyota Motor
Japan 9
Telefónica
Spain
Telecommunications 10
Fiat
Italy

10. Transnationality
Are the activities of the world’s largest firms really spread out globally?
A transnationality index measures this.
It is calculated by averaging the ratios of
Foreign assets to total assets
Foreign sales to total sales
Foreign employees to total empolyees.

11. An Example
General Electric, a U.S. TNC, ranks second on the list of the world’s largest non-financial TCS based on foreign assets.
Foreign assets are 159,188, total assets 437,006, foreign sales 49,528, total sales 129,853, foreign employment 145,000 and total employment 313,000.
Its TNI is only 40.3 and it does not appear on the list of the top ten TNCs by TNI.

12. Calculation

13. The Top Global Companies Based on Transnationality
Ranking
Company
Home Country
Industry 1
Rio Tinto
U.K. / Australia
Mining 2
Thomson
Canada
Media 3
ABB
Switzerland
Machinery and Equipment 4
Nestlé
Food and Beverages 5
British American Tobacco
United Kingdom
Tobacco 6
Electrolux
Sweden
Electronic Equipment 7
Interbrew
Belgium
Food and Beverage 8
Anglo American 9
Astrazeneca
Pharmaceuticals 10
Phillips Electronics
Netherlands

14. Balance of Payments Accounting
To understand how economists measure international transactions in the real and financial sectors of an economy, and how these sectors are linked, we turn to the balance of payments (BOP) accounting system.
A system of accounts which is a subset of the National Income and Production Accounts.
A double-entry system.
Debit Entries: Transactions that generate a payment outflow (e.g., import).
Credit Entries: Transactions that generate a payment inflow (e.g., export).

15. Balance of Payments
The current account is the broadest measure of a nation’s real sector trade.
Includes:
Goods
Services
Income Receipts and Payments
Unilateral Transfers

16. Current Account Goods: Exports and imports of tangible items.
Services: Exports and imports of services, for example:
Typical business services such as banking and financial services, insurance, and consulting.
Tourism

17. Current Account Income Receipts: Includes items such as
Investment income on US-owned assets abroad.
Receipts of income on US direct investment abroad.
Government income receipts
Income Payments: Includes items such as
Investment income on foreign-owned assets in the United States.
Payments of income on foreign direct investment in the United States
US Government income payments

18. Current Account Unilateral Transfers: Includes items such as:
Government grants abroad
Private remittances
Private grants abroad
The current account balance is the sum of the debit and credit entries in the accounts just described.
A current account deficit occurs when the sum of the debit entries exceeds the sum of the credit entries. A current account surplus occurs when the sum of the credit entries exceeds the sum of the debit entries.

19. US Current Account (2003)

20. Balance of Payments The Financial Sector
The Capital and Financial Account tabulates the flows of financial assets between domestic residents and foreign residents and governments.
The private capital account tabulates flows among private domestic residents and foreign private residents.

21. The Capital Account The Capital and financial Account:
Records international transactions in the financial sector.
Includes portfolio and foreign direct investment.
Includes changes in banks’ and brokers’ cash deposits that arise from international transactions.
The main accounts are:
US-Owned Assets Abroad: Increase or decrease in US ownership of foreign financial assets.
Foreign-Owned Assets in the US: Increase or decrease in foreign ownership of domestic assets.
Reserve Assets: Primarily the assets of central banks.

22. Portfolio and Foreign Direct Investment
Portfolio Investment: Individual or business purchase of stocks, bond, or other financial assets or deposits. (An income strategy)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Purchase of financial assets that results in a 10 percent or greater ownership share. (A financial control strategy)

23. Capital and Financial Account

24. The Balance of Payments The Statistical Discrepancy
The sum of the debit and credit entries in all of the BOP should total zero.
Of course there are errors and omissions resulting in a non-zero balance.
An offsetting entry to this non-zero balance is made in the statistical discrepancy account.
In this way, the total of the debit and credit entries equals zero.

25. BOP Examples U.S. company imports an automobile valued at $50,000
Goods
Services
Income
Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-50,000
Credits
(exports)
50,000

26. Income Payments and Receipts
BOP Examples U.S. government sends $1 million in humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan
Goods
Services
Income Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-1 million
Credits
(exports)
1 million

27. Income Payments and Receipts
BOP Examples U.S. resident buys a UK Tbill equivalent in value to $1,000
Goods
Services
Income Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-1,000
Credits
(exports)
1,000

28. Income Payments and Receipts
BOP Examples U.S. resident receives $100 in interest on a foreign asset they own
Goods
Services
Income Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-100
Credits
(exports)
100

29. Income Payments and Receipts
BOP Examples A Marquette University student goes to Mexico on break and spends $500
Goods
Services
Income Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-500
Credits
(exports)
500

30. Income Payments and Receipts
BOP Examples Total
Goods
Services
Income Payments and Receipts UT
Capital
Debits
(imports)
-50,000
-500
-1 mil
-1,000
-100
Credits
(exports)
1 mill
100
1,000
50,000
500
Current Account
-50,400
Capital Account
50,400

31. Net Creditor and Net Debtor Status
A net creditor is a nation whose total claims on foreign residents exceed the total claims of foreign residents on the residents of the domestic nation.
A net debtor is a nation whose total claims on foreign residents are less than the total claims of foreign residents on the residents of the domestic nation.
It is not necessarily good nor bad to be either a net debtor or net creditor.

32. The United States as a Net Debtor
The United States has been a net debtor at various times in its history. The United States was a net debtor in the late 1800s.
SOURCE: Data from Economic Review of the federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

33. The Relationship Between the Current Account and the Capital Account
Expenditures Approach to National Income
National income is the sum of expenditures in the following categories; consumer expenditures, private investment expenditures, government expenditures, and net export expenditures,
y= c + ip + g + (x-m)
Let the current account, ca equal
ca = (x – m)
Then
y=c + ip + g + ca

34. The Relationship Between the Current Account and the Capital Account
Income Approach
Income has three possible uses; it can be spent on current consumption, it can be saved (private saving), and we pay taxes to the government
y= c + sp + t
Because both approaches equal national income, we can set the two identities equal:
c + sp + t = c +ip + g + ca
or, sp – ip – (g - t) = ca

35. The Relationship Between the Current Account and the Capital Account
Private Saving
Private saving can be used to purchase three types of assets, domestic private investment, government debt (g – t) or to accumulate foreign assets (fa),
sp = ip + (g – t) + fa
where fa is the (net) accumulation of foreign assets (domestic residents’ purchases of foreign assets in excess of foreign residents’ purchases of domestic assets).
Then, by rearrangement
sp – ip – (g – t) = fa

36. The Relationship Between the Current Account and the Capital Account
Putting the two together:
ca = sp – ip – (g – t) = fa
In words, private domestic saving less private domestic investment less the fiscal balance (government saving) equals the current account balance, which also equals the (net) accumulation of foreign assets.

37. An Example of the Relationship Between the Current Account and the Capital Account
Using the equality we derived,
ca = sp – ip – (g – t) = fa
Suppose a nation’s private saving rate is 5.2 percent of its total output, its private investment rate is 7.3 percent, and its fiscal budget deficit is 3.3 percent
ca = fa = 5.2 – 7.3 – 3.3 = -5.4.
In words, this nation’s residents must borrow from abroad (fa = -5.4) to finance their investment expenditures, resulting in a current account deficit in the amount of 5.4 percent of total output.