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Foundations of Multinational Financial Management5th EditionAlan ShapiroJ.Wiley & Sons
Power Points by
Joseph F. Greco, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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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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2. Double-entry bookkeeping
a. Currency inflows = credits earn
foreign exchange
b. Currency outflows = debits
expend foreign exchange
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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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5. Capital Account
a. Function: records public and private investment and lending.
b. Inflows = credits
c. Outflows = debits
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5. Capital Account (con’t)
d. Transactions classified as
1.) Portfolio
2.) Direct
3.) Short term
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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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6. Official Reserves Account (con’t)b. Reserves consist of
1.) Gold
2.) Convertible securities
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7. Net Effects:a. Sum of all transactions must be
zero:
1.) Current account2.) Capital account3.) Official reserves
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8. The Balance-of-payment measures
a. Some Definitions:
1.) Basic Balance
a.) Consists of current account and long-term capital flows.
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1.) Basic Balance (con’t)
c.) Excludes short-term capital flows that heavily depend on temporary factors.
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2.) Net Liquidity Balance:
Measures the change in private domestic borrowing or
lending require to keep payments equal without adjusting official reserves.
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3.) 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 FLOWSA. Global Linkages
set of basic macroeconomic identities which link:
-Domestic spending and production to current and capital accounts.
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B. Domestic Savings and Investmentand the Capital Account1. National Income Accounting a. National Income (NI) is either
spent (C) or saved (S)
NI = C + S (5.1)
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b. National spending (NS) is
divided into personal spending (C) and investment (I)
NS = C + I (5.2)
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c. Subtracting (4.2) - (4.1)
NI - NS = S - I (5.3)
If NI >NS, S > I which implies that surplus capital spent overseas.
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d. In a freely-floating system,excess saving = the capital account balance
e. Implications:1. A nation which produces
more than it spends will save more than it invests domestically
with a net capital outflow producing a capital account deficit.
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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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C.THE LINK BETWEEN THE CURRENT AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
1. Beginning identityNI - NS = X - M (5.4)where X = exports
M = importsX-M=current account balance
(CA)
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2. Combining (5.3) + (5.4)
S - I = X - M (5.5)
3. If S - I = Net Foreign Investment (NFI)
NFI = X - M (5.6)
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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 > NI, the excess must be
acquired through foreign trade.
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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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D. GOVERNMENT BUDGETS AND
CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICITS
1. CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE
CA = Saving Surplus - Gov’t budget deficit
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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 TOWORK:
A. Currency Depreciation
B. Protectionism
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II.CURRENCY DEPRECIATION
A. U.S. Experience:
Does not improve the trade deficit.
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B. Depreciations are ineffective because
1. It takes time to affect trade.
2. J-Curve EffectStates that a decline in currency
value will initially worsen the deficit before improvement.
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THE J - CURVE
TIME
Net changein trade balance
0
Currency depreciation
Trade balance initially deteriorates
Trade balanceimproves
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III. PROTECTIONISM
A. Trade Barriers used:
1. Tariffs
2. Quotas
B. Results:
Most likely will reduce both X and M.
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C. FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
One protectionist solution would place limits on or eliminate foreign ownership leading to capital inflows.
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D. STIMULATE NATIONAL SAVING
change the tax regulations and rates.
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III. SUMMARY: CURRENT-ACCOUNT
DEFICITS
- neither bad nor good inherently
1. Since one country’s exports are another’s imports, it is not
possible for all to run a surplus