Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Theory of the Open Economy
•Market for loanable funds
  -open economy
   +S=I+NCO
  -Supply of loanable funds
   +from national saving (S)
  -Demand for loanable funds
   +from domestic investment (I)
   +and Net Capital Outflow (NCO)
 •loanable funds are domestically generated flow of resources available for capital accumulation
 •purchase of capital asset
  -adds to demand for loanable funds
 •Higher real interest rate
  -encourages saving
  -discourages investment
  -discourages Americans from buying foreign assets
  -encourages foreigners to buy US assets
 •supply of loanable funds slopes upward
 •demand slopes downward
 •at equilibrium interest rate
  -amount that people want to save
  -exactly balances the desired quantities of domestic investment and net capital outflow
•market for foreign-currency exchange
  -NCO=NX
 •if trade surplus NX>0
  -foreigners buy more US goods and services than Americans buy foreign
  -Americans use foreign currenvy
   +buy foreign assets
    ~capital is flowing abroad, NCO>0
 •if trade deficit NX<0
  -Some of this spending
   +financed by selling of American assets
 •supply of foreign-currency exchange
  -Net capital outflow
  -quantity of dollars supplied - buy foreign assets
  -supply curve -- vertical
    +quantity of dollars supplied for net capital outflow
    +doesn't depend on real exchange rate
 •demand for foreign-currency exchange
  -net exports
  -quantity of dollars demanded - buys US net exports of goods and services
    +higher real exchange rate
 •equilibrium exchange rate
  -demand for dollars by foreigners arising from us net exports
  -exactly balances supply of dollars from Americans arising from us net capital outflow
•NCO: link between 2 markets
 •Identities
  -S=I+NCO
  -NCO=NX
•Government Budget deficits
  -negative public saving
  -reduces national saving
  -reduces supply of loanable funs
  -increase in interest rate
  -crowd out domestic investment
  -decrease in foreign supply of foreign-currency exchange
  -exchange rate appreciates
  -net exports fall
  -push trade balance toward deficit

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