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3-1 Chapter Objective: This chapter serves to introduce the student to the balance of payments (BOP). How it is constructed and how balance of payments data may be interpreted. 3 Chapter Three The Balance of Payments

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INTERNATIONALFINANCIAL

MANAGEMENT

EUN / RESNICK

Third Edition

Chapter Objective:

This chapter serves to introduce the student to the balance of payments (BOP). How it is constructed and how balance of payments data may be interpreted.

3Chapter Three

The Balance of Payments

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Chapter Three Outline

Balance of Payments Accounting Balance of Payments Accounts

The Current Account The Capital Account Statistical Discrepancy Official Reserves Account

The Balance of Payments Identity Balance of Payments Trends in Major

Countries

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Balance of Payments Accounting

The Balance of Payments is the statistical record of a country’s international transactions over a certain period of time presented in the form of double-entry bookkeeping.

When we say “a country’s balance of payments” we are referring to the transactions of its citizens and government.

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Balance of Payments Example

Suppose that Maplewood Bicycle in Maplewood, Missouri, USA imports $100,000 worth of bicycle frames from Mercian Bicycles in Darby England.

There will exist a $100,000 credit recorded by Mercian that offsets a $100,000 debit at Maplewood’s bank account.

This will lead to a rise in the supply of dollars and the demand for British pounds.

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The balance of payments accounts are those that record all transactions between the residents of a country and residents of all foreign nations.

They are composed of the following: The Current Account The Capital Account The Official Reserves Account Statistical Discrepancy

Balance of Payments Accounts

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The Current Account

Includes all imports and exports of goods and services.

Includes unilateral transfers of foreign aid. If the debits exceed the credits, then a country is

running a trade deficit. If the credits exceed the debits, then a country is

running a trade surplus.

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The Capital Account

The capital account measures the difference between U.S. sales of assets to foreigners and U.S. purchases of foreign assets.

The U.S. enjoys about a $444,000,000,000 capital account surplus—absent of U.S. borrowing from foreigners, this “finances” our trade deficit.

The capital account is composed of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), portfolio investments and other investments.

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Statistical Discrepancy

There’s going to be some omissions and misrecorded transactions—so we use a “plug” figure to get things to balance.

Exhibit 3.1 shows a discrepancy of $0.73 billion in 2000.

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The Official Reserves Account

Official reserves assets include gold, foreign currencies, SDRs, reserve positions in the IMF.

SDR (Special drawing rights): an artificial international reserve created by the IMF, which is a currency basket comprised of 5 major currencies.

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The Balance of Payments Identity

BCA + BKA + BRA = 0where

BCA = balance on current account

BKA = balance on capital account

BRA = balance on the reserves account

Under a pure flexible exchange rate regime,

BCA + BKA = 0

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

In 2000, the U.S. imported more than it exported, thus running a current account deficit of $444.69 billion.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

During the same year, the U.S. attracted net investment of $444.26 billion—clearly the rest of the world found the U.S. to be a good place to invest.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

Under a pure flexible exchange rate regime, these numbers would balance each other out.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

In the real world, there is a statistical discrepancy.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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U.S. Balance of Payments Data

Including that, the balance of payments identity should hold:

BCA + BKA = – BRA

($444.69) + $444.26 + $0.73 = $0.30= –($0.30)

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

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Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate

Q

P

Exchange rate $  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

S

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Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate

Q

P

As U.S. citizens import, they are supply dollars to the FOREX market.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

Exchange rate $

S

D

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Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate

Q

P

As U.S. citizens export, others demand dollars at the FOREX market.

  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

Exchange rate $

S

D

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Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate

Q

P S

D

As the U.S. government sells dollars, the supply of dollars increases.

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  Credits DebitsCurrent Account    

1 Exports $1,418.64  

2 Imports   ($1,809.18)

3 Unilateral Transfers $10.24 ($64.39)

  Balance on Current Account ($444.69)Capital Account    

4 Direct Investment $287.68 ($152.44)

5 Portfolio Investment $474.39 ($124.94)

6 Other Investments $262.64 ($303.27)

  Balance on Capital Account $444.26  

7 Statistical Discrepancies  

  Overall Balance $0.30  Official Reserve Account ($0.30)

0.73

Exchange rate $

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Balance of Payments Trends

Since 1982 the U.S. has experienced continuous deficits on the current account and continuous surpluses on the capital account.

During the same period, Japan has experienced the opposite.

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of the United States

-500

-400

-300

-200

-100

0

100

200

300

400

500

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

U.S. BCA

U.S. BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of United Kingdom

-50

-40

-30

-20

-10

0

10

20

30

40

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

UK BCA

UK BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of Japan

-150

-100

-50

0

50

100

150

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

Japan BCA

Japan BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of Germany

-80

-60

-40

-20

0

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80

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

Germany BCA

Germany BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of China

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-10

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0

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1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

China BCA

China BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Balance of Payments Trends

Germany traditionally had current account surpluses.

Since 1991 Germany has been experiencing current account deficits.

This is largely due to German reunification and the resultant need to absorb more output domestically to rebuild the former East Germany.

What matters is the nature and causes of the disequilibrium.

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Balances on the Current (BCA) and Capital (BKA) Accounts of Five Major Countries

-500

-400

-300

-200

-100

0

100

200

300

400

500

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

China BCA

China BKA

Japan BCA

Japan BKA

Germany BCA

Germany BKA

UK BCA

UK BKA

U.S. BCA

U.S. BKA

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook, 2000

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Exercise

Study website IMF, www.imf.org/external, and discuss the role of IMF in dealing with BOP and currencies crisis

Comment the following statement “since the US imports more than exports, it is necessary for the US to import capital from foreign countries to finances its current account deficits”