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Topics on International Macroeconomics (Lecture 1) Marko Korhonen Department of Economics In this course 1) Selected topics on International Macroeconomics (lectures 1 to 4) 2) Economics of Monetary Union + some other topics (student presentations) Why study international macroeconomics? • What economies are closed? – Maybe reasonable for North Korea, Cuba, Iran – Closed economies analysis is outdated • Open economies have different features than closed economies – True general eguilibrium model – Deal with agents that are not homogenous (at least two different countries) – Interaction between financial markets, goods markets and factor markets – Research is driven by empirical anomalies • PPP, UIP, Feldstein-Horioka puzzle, Carry Trade,… Introduction • International macroeconomics is devoted to the study of largescale economic problems in interdependent economies. • It is macroeconomic because it focuses on key economy-wide variables such as exchange rates, prices, interest rates, income, wealth, and the current account. • It is international because a deeper understanding of the global economy emerges only when the interconnections among nations are fully considered. Introduction • Unique features of international macroeconomics can be reduced to three key elements: the world has many monies (not one), countries are financially integrated (not isolated), and in this context economic policy choices are made (but not always very well). Contents (preliminary) Lecture 1 - Complete theory for exchange rates: asset and monetary approach. (Dornbusch overshooting model) - Fixed exchange rate and trilemma. (Danish krona) - Measuring international macroeconomics data - Global imbalances (U.S. versus EDC countries) - External wealth (U.S) Contents (preliminary) Lecture 2 - The gains from financial globalization. - Gains from efficient investment - Feldstein-Horioka puzzle - Lucas paradox - Gains from diversification of risk - Home bias Contents (preliminary) Lecture 3 - Stabilization policy (Latvia and Poland) - IS-LM-FX-model (Britain and Europe). - The benefits of fixed exchange rate Contents (preliminary) Lecture 4 - Exchange rates in the long-run - Nontraded goods and the BalassaSamuelson model - Exchange rates in the short-run - The carry trade, peso problems - The efficient market hypothesis Student presentations • Every student, individually or as a part of a team (max 2 persons), will take a charge of a lecture. • It will be graded on the basis of how well the student defines the topic posed, analyzed and quided. • 45-60 minutes presentation. • Every student have to write a lecture diary on the presentations (except your own one) where you summarize the essential elements of lectures. • You should hand your lecture diary before the first exam. • The student presentation topics will be give on January 19th, time 12-14 (TA 101). Student presentations topics • Debt and default • The global macroeconomy and the 2007-2013 crisis • The economics of the Euro • The history and politics of the Euro • Eurozone tensions in tranquil times 1999-2007 • The eurozone in crisis 2008-2013. Student presentations topics • Paul De Grauwe: Economics of Monetary Union Table of Contents: Costs and Benefits of Monetary Union 1: The Costs of Common Currency 2: The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas: A Critique 3: The Benefits of a Common Currency 4: Costs and Benefits Compared Monetary Union 5: The Fragility of Incomplete Monetary Union 6: How to Complete a Monetary Union? 7: The Transition to a Monetary Union 8: The European Central Bank 9: Monetary Policy in the Eurozone 10: Fiscal Policies in Monetary Unions 11: The Euro and Financial Markets Grading • Student presentation + lecture diary (max 50 points) + final exam (50 points), so the total maximum is 100 points • Presentation gives you at maximum 30 points and participation on the other students presentations and lecture diary gives you at maximum 20 points. – No presentation means that you are not able to get participation and lecture diary points. • Final exam – 50 points – If you have not make a presentation (max 100 points) • Grading: – – – – – For the grade 5 you need 90-100 points For the grade 4 you need 80-90 points For the grade 3 you need 70-80 points For the grade 2 you need 60-70 points For the grade 1 you need 50-60 points Schedule • The final schedule can be found in the Noppa-portal • https://noppa.oulu.fi/noppa/kurssi/721317s/luennot Final Schedule 10.01.17 ti 14.15-17.00 SÄ105 (Lecture 1) 11.01.17 ke 14.15-17.00 L9 (Lecture 2) 17.01.17 ti 14.15-17.00 SÄ105 (Lecture 3) 18.01.17 ke 14.15-17.00 L9 (Lecture 4) 19.01.17 to 12.15-14.00 TA101 (Student presentation topics given) 31.01.17 ti 14.15-17.00 SÄ105 (Student presentations) 01.02.17 ke 14.15-17.00 L9 (Student presentations) 02.02.17 to 12.15-14.00 TA101 (Student presentations) 07.02.17 ti 14.15-17.00 SÄ105 (Student presentations) 08.02.17 ke 14.15-17.00 L9 (Student presentations) 09.02.17 to 12.15-14.00 TA101 (Student presentations) Foreign Exchange: Currencies • A complete understanding of how a country’s economy works requires that we study the exchange rate, the price of foreign currency. • Because products and investments move across borders, fluctuations in exchange rates have significant effects on the relative prices of home and foreign goods (such as autos and clothing), services (such as insurance and tourism), and assets (such as equities and bonds). Foreign Exchange: Currencies How Exchange Rates Behave Major Exchange Rates The chart shows two key exchange rates from 2003 to 2010. The China-U.S. exchange rate varies little and would be considered a fixed exchange rate, despite a period when it followed a gradual trend. The U.S.-Eurozone exchange rate varies a lot and would be considered a floating exchange rate. A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches For a complete theory of exchange rates: • We need the asset approach—short-run money market equilibrium and uncovered interest parity: PUS M US /[ LUS (i$ )YUS ] PEUR M EUR /[ LEUR (i )YEUR ] The asset approach E$e/ € E$e/ € i$ i€ E$ / € © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor (4-4) 18 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches • To forecast the future expected exchange rate, we also need the long-run monetary approach—a long run monetary model and purchasing power parity: e e e M EUR /[ LEUR (i )YEUR ] The monetary approach e e PUS / PEUR e e e PUS M US /[ LUS (i$e )YUS ] e PEUR E$e/ € (4-5) • Combining the asset and monetary approach, we can see how the two key mechanisms of expectations and arbitrage determine exchange rates in both the short run and the long run. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 19 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches A Complete Theory of Floating Exchange Rates: All the Building Blocks Together Inputs to the model are known exogenous variables (in green boxes). Outputs of the model are unknown endogenous variables (in red boxes). The levels of money supply and real income determine exchange rates. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 20 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches FIGURE (1 of 4) Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply, Short-Run Impact In panel (a), the home price level is fixed, but the supply of dollar balances increases and real money supply shifts out. To restore equilibrium at point 2, the interest rate falls from i1$ to i2$. In panel (b), in the FX market, the home interest rate falls, so the domestic return decreases and DR shifts down. In addition, the permanent change in the home money supply implies a permanent, long-run depreciation of the dollar. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 21 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches FIGURE (2 of 4) Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply, Short-Run Impact (continued) Hence, there is also a permanent rise in Ee$/€, which causes a permanent increase in the foreign return i€ + (Ee$/€ − E$/€)/E$/€, all else equal; FR shifts up from FR1 to FR2. The simultaneous fall in DR and rise in FR cause the home currency to depreciate steeply, leading to a new equilibrium at point 2′ (and not at 3′, which would be the equilibrium if the policy were temporary). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 22 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches FIGURE (3 of 4) Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply, Short-Run Impact (continued) Long-Run Adjustment: In panel (c), in the long run, prices are flexible, so the home price level and the exchange rate both rise in proportion with the money supply. Prices rise to P2US, and real money supply returns to its original level M1US/P1US. The money market gradually shifts back to equilibrium at point 4 (the same as point 1). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 23 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches FIGURE (4 of 4) Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply, Short-Run Impact (continued) Long-Run Adjustment (continued): In panel (d), in the FX market, the domestic return DR, which equals the home interest rate, gradually shifts back to its original level. The foreign return curve FR does not move at all: there are no further changes in the Foreign interest rate or in the future expected exchange rate. The FX market equilibrium shifts gradually to point 4′. The exchange rate falls (and the dollar appreciates) from E2$/€ to E4$/€. Arrows in both graphs show the path of gradual adjustment. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 24 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches Overshooting FIGURE (1 of 2) Responses to a Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply In panel (a), there is a one-time permanent increase in home (U.S.) nominal money supply at time T. In panel (b), prices are sticky in the short run, so there is a short-run increase in the real money supply and a fall in the home interest rate. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 25 A Complete Theory for Exchange Rates: Unifying the Monetary and Asset Approaches Overshooting FIGURE (2 of 2) Responses to a Permanent Expansion of the Home Money Supply (continued) In panel (c), in the long run, prices rise in the same proportion as the money supply. In panel (d), in the short run, the exchange rate overshoots its long-run value (the dollar depreciates by a large amount), but in the long run, the exchange rate will have risen only in proportion to changes in money and prices. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 26 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma What Is a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime? • Here we focus on the case of a fixed rate regime without controls so that capital is mobile (no capital controls) and arbitrage is free to operate in the foreign exchange market. • Central banks buying and selling foreign currency at a fixed price, thus holding the market exchange rate at a fixed level — denoted E. • We examine the implications of Denmark’s decision to peg its — currency, the krone, to the euro at a fixed rate: EDKr/€ • The Foreign country remains the Eurozone, and the Home country is now Denmark. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 27 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma What Is a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime? • What we now show is that a country with a fixed exchange rate faces monetary policy constraints not just in the long run but also in the short run. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 29 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma Pegging Sacrifices Monetary Policy Autonomy in the Short Run: Example The Danish central bank must set its interest rate equal to i€, the rate set by the European Central Bank (ECB): iDKr i€ E e DKr / € EDKr / € EDKr / € i Equals zero for a credible fixed exchange rate Denmark has lost control of its monetary policy: it cannot independently change its interest rate under a peg. M DEN PDEN LDEN (iDKr )YDEN PDEN LDEN (i€ )YDEN © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 30 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma Pegging Sacrifices Monetary Policy Autonomy in the Short Run: Example Our short-run theory still applies, but with a different chain of causality. • Under a float: o The home monetary authorities pick the money supply M. o In the short run, the choice of M determines the interest rate i in the money market; in turn, via UIP, the level of i determines the exchange rate E. o The money supply is an input in the model (an exogenous variable), and the exchange rate is an output of the model (an endogenous variable). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 31 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma Pegging Sacrifices Monetary Policy Autonomy in the Short Run: Example Our short-run theory still applies, but with a different chain of causality. • Under a fix, this logic is reversed: o Home monetary authorities pick the fixed level of the exchange rate E. o In the short run, a fixed E pins down the home interest rate i via UIP (forcing i =i*); in turn, the level of i determines the level of the money supply M necessary to meet money demand. o The exchange rate is an input in the model (an exogenous variable), and the money supply is an output of the model (an endogenous variable). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 32 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma FIGURE A Complete Theory of Fixed Exchange Rates: Same Building Blocks, Different Known and Unknown Variables Unlike in in previous Figure, the home country is now assumed to fix its exchange rate with the foreign country. The levels of real income and the fixed exchange rate determine the home money supply levels, given outcomes in the foreign country. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 33 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma Pegging Sacrifices Monetary Policy Autonomy in the Long Run: Example • The price level in Denmark is determined in the long run by PPP. But if the exchange rate is pegged, we can write long-run PPP for Denmark as: PDEN EDKr / € PEUR • With the long-run nominal interest and price level outside of Danish control, monetary policy autonomy is impossible. We just substitute iDKr i€ and PDEN EDKr / € PEURinto Denmark’s long-run money market equilibrium to obtain: M DEN PDEN LDEN (iDKr )YDEN EDKr / € PEUR LDEN (i )YDEN © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 34 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma The Trilemma Consider the following three equations and parallel statements about desirable policy goals. 1. e A fixed exchange rate EDKr / € E DKr / € 0 • May be desired as a means to promote EDKr / € stability in trade and investment • Represented here by zero expected depreciation International capital mobility 2. iDKr e E DKr • May be desired as a means to promote / € E DKr / € i€ integration, efficiency, and risk sharing E /€ DKr exp ected depreciation • Represented here by uncovered interest parity, which results from arbitrage © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 35 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma The Trilemma Consider the following three equations and parallel statements about desirable policy goals. 3. iDKr / € i€ Monetary policy autonomy • May be desired as a means to manage the Home economy’s business cycle • Represented here by the ability to set the Home interest rate independently of the foreign interest rate © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 36 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma The Trilemma • Formulae 1, 2, and 3 show that it is a mathematical impossibility as shown by the following statements: o 1 and 2 imply not 3 (1 and 2 imply interest equality, contradicting 3). o 2 and 3 imply not 1 (2 and 3 imply an expected change in E, contradicting 1). o 3 and 1 imply not 2 (3 and 1 imply a difference between domestic and foreign returns, contradicting 2). • This result, known as the trilemma, is one of the most important ideas in international macroeconomics. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 37 Fixed Exchange Rates and the Trilemma The Trilemma The Trilemma Each corner of the triangle represents a viable policy choice. The labels on the two adjacent edges of the triangle are the goals that can be attained; the label on the opposite edge is the goal that has to be sacrificed. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 38 APPLICATION The Trilemma in Europe The Trilemma in Europe The figure shows selected central banks’ base interest rates for the period 1994 to 2010 with reference to the German mark and euro base rates. In this period, the British made a policy choice to float against the German mark and (after 1999) against the euro. This permitted monetary independence because interest rates set by the Bank of England could diverge from those set in Frankfurt. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 39 APPLICATION The Trilemma in Europe The Trilemma in Europe (continued) No such independence in policy making was afforded by the Danish decision to peg the krone first to the mark and then to the euro. Since 1999 the Danish interest rate has moved in line with the ECB rate. Similar forces operated pre-1999 for other countries pegging to the mark, such as the Netherlands and Austria. Until they joined the Eurozone in 1999, their interest rates, like that of Denmark, closely tracked the German rate. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 40 Measuring Macroeconomic Activity: An Overview FIGURE 5-1 The Closed Economy Measurements of national expenditure, product, and income are recorded in the national income and product accounts, with the major categories shown. The purple line shows the circular flow of all transactions in a closed economy. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 41 International transactions: Balance-ofPayments • Balance-of-Payments Accounting – A country’s international transactions are recorded in the balance-of-payments accounts. – A country’s balance of payments has two main components: the current account and the financial account. – The current account records exports and imports of goods and services and international receipts or payments of income. – The financial account keeps record of sales of assets to foreigners and purchases of assets located abroad. Measuring Macroeconomic Activity: An Overview FIGURE 5-2 The Open Economy Measurements of national expenditure, product, and income are recorded in the national income and product accounts, with the major categories shown on the left. Measurements of international transactions are recorded in the balance of payments accounts, with the major categories shown on the right. The purple line shows the flow of transactions within the home economy. The green lines show all crossborder transactions. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 43 Income, Product, and Expenditure From GNE to GDP: Accounting for Trade in Goods and Services GDP Gross domestic product C I G Gross national expenditure GNE EX IM All imports, All exports, final & intermediate final & intermediate (5-1) Trade balance TB This formula says gross domestic product is equal to gross national expenditure (GNE) plus the trade balance (TB). The trade balance (TB), also referred to as net exports, may be positive or negative. • If TB > 0, exports are greater than imports and we say a country has a trade surplus. • If TB < 0, imports are greater than exports and we say a country has a trade deficit. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 44 Income, Product, and Expenditure From GDP to GNI: Accounting for Trade in Factor Services • Gross national income equals gross domestic product (GDP) plus net factor income from abroad (NFIA). GNI C I G ( EX IM ) ( EX FS IM FS ) Gross nationalexpenditure GNE Trade balance TB (5-2) Net factor income from abroad NFIA GDP © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 45 APPLICATION Celtic Tiger or Tortoise? FIGURE 5-3 A Paper Tiger? The chart shows trends in GDP, GNI, and NFIA in Ireland from 1980 to 2011. Irish GNI per capita grew more slowly than GDP per capita during the boom years of the 1980s and 1990s because an everlarger share of GDP was sent abroad as net factor income to foreign investors. Close to zero in 1980, this share had risen to around 15% of GDP by the year 2000 and has remained there. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 46 Income, Product, and Expenditure From GNI to GNDI: Accounting for Transfers of Income If a country receives transfers worth UTIN and gives transfers worth UTOUT, then its net unilateral transfers (NUT), are NUT = UTIN − UTOUT . Adding net unilateral transfers to gross national income, gives a full measure of national income in an open economy, known as gross national disposable income (GNDI), henceforth Y: Y C I G ( EX IM ) ( EX FS IM FS ) (UT UT ) (5-3) GNDI GNE Trade balance (TB ) Net factor income from abroad ( NFIA) Net unilateral transfers (NUT ) GNI © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 47 Income, Product, and Expenditure From GNI to GNDI: Accounting for Transfers of Income FIGURE 5-4 Major Transfer Recipients The chart shows average figures for 2000 to 2010 for all countries in which net unilateral transfers exceeded 15% of GNI. Many of the countries shown were heavily reliant on foreign aid, including some of the poorest countries in the world, such as Liberia, Eritrea, Malawi, and Nepal. Some countries with higher incomes also have large transfers because of substantial migrant remittances from a large number of emigrant workers overseas (e.g., Tonga, El Salvador, Honduras, and Cape Verde). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 48 Income, Product, and Expenditure What the National Economic Aggregates Tell Us Y C I G {( EX IM ) ( EX FS IM FS ) (UT UT )} (5-4) GNDI GNE Trade balance (TB ) Net factor income from abroad ( NFIA) Net unilateral transfers (NUT ) Current account ( CA ) • On the left is our full income measure, GNDI. • The first term on the right is GNE, which measures payments by home entities. • The remaining terms measure net payments to the home country from all international transactions in goods, services, and income. We group the three cross-border terms into an umbrella term that is called the current account (CA). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 49 Income, Product, and Expenditure Understanding the Data for the National Economic Aggregates TABLE 5-1 U.S. Economic Aggregates in 2012 The table shows the computation of GDP, GNI, and GNDI in 2012 in billions of dollars using the components of gross national expenditure, the trade balance, international income payments, and unilateral transfers. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 50 Income, Product, and Expenditure Some Recent Trends FIGURE 5-5 U.S. Gross National Expenditure and Its Components, 1990-2012 The figure shows consumption (C), investment (I), and government purchases (G) in billions of dollars. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 51 2 Income, Product, and Expenditure Some Recent Trends FIGURE 5-6 U.S. Current Accounts and Its Components, 1990-2012 The figure shows the trade balance (TB), net factor income from abroad (NFIA), and net unilateral transfers (NUT) in billions of dollars. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 52 The U.S. Trade Balance and Current Account As Percentages Of GDP: 1960-2012 What the Current Account Tells Us? Y C I G CA (5-5) • This equation is the open-economy national income identity. It tells us that the current account represents the difference between national income Y (or GNDI) and gross national expenditure GNE (or C + I + G). Hence: • GNDI is greater than GNE if and only if CA is positive, or in surplus. • GNDI is less than GNE if and only if CA is negative, or in deficit. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 57 What the Current Account Tells Us? • The current account is also the difference between national saving (S = Y − C − G) and investment: S I CA (5-6) Y C G • This equation is called the current account identity even though it is just a rearrangement of the national income identity. Thus, • S is greater than I if and only if CA is positive, or in surplus. • S is less than I if and only if CA is negative, or in deficit. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 58 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-7 (1 of 2) Saving, Investment, and Current Account Trends: Industrial Countries The charts show saving, investment, and the current account as a percent of each subregion’s GDP for four groups of advanced countries. The United States has seen both saving and investment fall since 1980, but saving has fallen further than investment, opening up a large current account deficit approaching 6% of GDP in recent years. Japan’s experience is the opposite: investment fell further than saving, opening up a large current account surplus of about 3% to 5% of GDP. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 59 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-7 (2 of 2) Saving, Investment, and Current Account Trends: Industrial Countries (continued) The Euro area has also seen saving and investment fall but has been closer to balance overall. Other advanced countries (e.g., non-Euro area EU countries, Canada, Australia, etc.) have tended to run large current account deficits. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 60 APPLICATION Global Imbalances • We define private saving (Sp) as that part of after-tax private sector disposable income Y that is not devoted to private consumption C. Sp Y T C (5-7) • We define government saving (Sg) as the difference between tax revenue T received by the government and government purchases G. Sg T G (5-8) • Private saving plus government saving equals total national saving, S S Y C G (Y T C ) (T G ) Privatesaving S p Sg (5-9) Government saving © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 61 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-8 (1 of 2) Private and Public Saving Trends: Industrial Countries This chart shows private saving and the chart on the next slide public saving, both as a percent of GDP. Private saving has been declining in the industrial countries, especially in Japan (since the 1970s) and in the United States (since the 1980s). Private saving has been more stable in the Euro area and other countries. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 62 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-8 (2 of 2) Private and Public Saving Trends: Industrial Countries (continued) Public saving is clearly more volatile than private saving. Japan has been mostly in surplus and massively so in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The United States briefly ran a government surplus in the late 1990s but has now returned to a deficit position. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 63 APPLICATION Global Imbalances Do government deficits cause current account deficits? • Sometimes they go together, but these “twin deficits” are not inextricably linked, as is sometimes believed. • We can use the equation just given and the current account identity to write CA S p Sg I (5-10) • The theory of Ricardian equivalence asserts that a fall in public saving is fully offset by a contemporaneous rise in private saving. • However, empirical studies do not support this theory: private saving does not fully offset government saving in practice. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 64 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-9 (1 of 3) Global Imbalances The charts show saving (blue), investment (red), and the current account (beige) as a percent of GDP. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 65 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-9 (2 of 3) Global Imbalances (continued) In the 1990s, emerging markets moved into current account surplus and thus financed the overall trend toward current account deficit of the industrial countries. Note: Oil producers include Norway. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 66 APPLICATION Global Imbalances FIGURE 5-9 (3 of 3) Global Imbalances (continued) For the world as a whole since the 1970s, global investment and saving rates have declined as a percent of GDP, falling from a high of near 26% to low near 20%. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 67 Observations from the figures • The large observed U.S. current account deficits must be matched by current account surpluses of other countries with the United States. • Over the past decade, an increasing fraction of the U.S. current account deficit is accounted for by current account deficits with China. • Figure 1.8 displays the U.S. current account with China as a fraction of the total U.S. current account balance. • This ratio was about 20 percent in 1999 and has been increasing steadily, reaching a peak of 70 percent in 2009. Observations from the figures • The expanding commercial relation between the United States and China has reached a magnitude such that the respective total current accounts are beginning to mirror each other. • This phenomenon is evident from figure 1.9,which displays the current account balances of the United States and China as fractions of their respective GDPs. • Since the mid 1990s, the U.S. widening current account deficits have coincided with a growing path of Chinese current account surpluses. • Notice that the great recession of 2008-2009 was associated with a significant improvement in the U.S. current account and an equally important contraction in the Chinese current account surplus. Measuring Macroeconomic Activity: An Overview FIGURE 5-2 The Open Economy Measurements of national expenditure, product, and income are recorded in the national income and product accounts, with the major categories shown on the left. Measurements of international transactions are recorded in the balance of payments accounts, with the major categories shown on the right. The purple line shows the flow of transactions within the home economy. The green lines show all crossborder transactions. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 76 The Balance of Payments Accounting for Asset Transactions: The Financial Account • The financial account (FA) records transactions between residents and nonresidents that involve financial assets. This definition covers all types of assets: • real assets such as land or structures, • and financial assets such as debt (bonds, loans) or equity, issued by any entity. • Subtracting asset imports from asset exports yields the home country’s net overall balance on asset transactions, which is known as the financial account, where FA = EXA − IMA. • The financial account therefore measures how the country accumulates or decumulates assets through international transactions. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 77 The Balance of Payments Accounting for Asset Transactions: The Capital Account • The capital account (KA) covers two remaining areas of asset movement of minor quantitative significance. 1. the acquisition and disposal of nonfinancial, nonproduced assets (e.g., patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc.) 2. capital transfers (i.e., gifts of assets), an example of which is the forgiveness of debts • We denote capital transfers received by the home country as KAIN and capital transfers given by the home country as KAOUT. The capital account, KA = KAIN − KAOUT, denotes net capital transfers received. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 78 The Balance of Payments Accounting for Home and Foreign Assets • From the home perspective, a foreign asset is a claim on a foreign country. • When a home entity holds such an asset, it is called an external asset of the home country. • When a foreign entity holds such an asset, it is called an external liability of the home country because it represents an obligation owed by the home country to the rest of the world. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 79 The Balance of Payments Accounting for Home and Foreign Assets • If we use superscripts “H” and “F” to denote home and foreign assets, we can break down the financial account as the sum of the net exports of each type of asset: FA ( EX AH IM AH ) ( EX AF IM AF ) ( EX AH IM AH ) ( IM AF EX AF ) Net export of home assets Net export of foreign assets Net export of home assets = Net additionsto external liabilities Net import of foreign assets = Net additionsto external assets (5-11) • FA equals: o the additions to external liabilities (the home-owned assets moving into foreign ownership, net) o minus the additions to external assets (the foreign-owned assets moving into home ownership, net). © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 80 The Balance of Payments How the Balance of Payments Accounts Work: A Macroeconomic View • Recall that gross national disposable income is Y GNDI GNE TB NFIA NUT GNE CA Resources available to home country from income • In addition, the home economy can free up resources by engaging in net sales (or purchases) of assets. We calculate these extra resources using our previous definitions: [ EX KAOUT ] [ IM KAIN ] A A Value of all assets exported Value of all assets exported as gifts Value of all assets imported EX A IM A KAIN KAOUT Value of all assets imported as gifts Value of all assets exported via sales Value of all assets imported via purchases © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor FA KA Extra resources available to the home country due to asset trades 81 The Balance of Payments How the Balance of Payments Accounts Work: A Macroeconomic View • Adding the last two expressions, we have the value of the total resources available to the home country for expenditures. This total value is equal the total value of home expenditure on final goods and services, GNE: GNE CA Resources available to home country due to income FA KA GNE Extra resources available to the home country due to asset trades • Cancelling GNE from both sides we obtain the result known as the balance of payments identity or BOP identity: CA Current account + KA Capital account + FA = 0 (5-12) Financial account © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 82 The Balance of Payments How the Balance of Payments Accounts Work: A Microeconomic View • The components of the BOP identity allow us to see the details behind why the accounts must balance. CA (EX IM ) (EX FS IM FS ) (UT UT ) KA (KA KA ) FA (EX AH IM AH ) (EX AF IM AF ) (5-13) • If an item has a plus sign, it is called a balance of payments credit or BOP credit. • If an item has a minus sign, it is called a balance of payments debit or BOP debit. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 83 The Balance of Payments How the Balance of Payments Accounts Work: A Microeconomic View • We have to understand one simple principle: every market transaction (whether for goods, services, factor services, or assets) has two parts. • If party A engages in a transaction with a counterparty B, then A receives from B an item of a given value, and in return B receives from A an item of equal value. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 84 The Balance of Payments Understanding the Data for the Balance of Payments Account TABLE 5-2 (1 of 3) The U.S. Balance of Payments in 2012 The table shows U.S. international transactions in 2012 in billions of dollars. Major categories are in bold type. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 85 The Balance of Payments Understanding the Data for the Balance of Payments Account TABLE 5-2 (2 of 3) The U.S. Balance of Payments in 2012 (continued) The table shows U.S. international transactions in 2012 in billions of dollars. Major categories are in bold type. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 86 The Balance of Payments Understanding the Data for the Balance of Payments Account TABLE 5-2 (3 of 3) The U.S. Balance of Payments in 2012 (continued) The table shows U.S. international transactions in 2012 in billions of dollars. Major categories are in bold type. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 87 The Balance of Payments Understanding the Data for the Balance of Payments Account • A country that has a current account surplus is called a (net) lender. By the BOP identity, it must have a deficit in its asset accounts. • Any lender, on net, buys assets (acquiring IOUs from borrowers). For example, China is a large net lender. • A country that has a current account deficit is called a (net) borrower. By the BOP identity, it must have a surplus in its asset accounts. • Any borrower, on net, sells assets (issuing IOUs to lenders). As we can see, the United States is a large net borrower. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 88 The Balance of Payments Some Recent Trends in the U.S. Balance of Payments FIGURE 5-10 U.S. Balance of Payments and Its Components, 19902012 The figure shows the current account balance (CA), the capital account balance (KA, barely visible), the financial account balance (FA), and the statistical discrepancy (SD), in billions of dollars. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 89 The Balance of Payments What the Balance of Payments Account Tells Us • The balance of payments accounts consist of: o the current account, which measures external imbalances in goods, services, factor services, and unilateral transfers. o the financial and capital accounts, which measure asset trades. • Surpluses on the current account side must be offset by deficits on the asset side. Deficits on the current account must be offset by surpluses on the asset side. • The balance of payments makes the connection between a country’s income and spending decisions and the evolution of that country’s wealth. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 90 External Wealth • Just as a household is better off with higher wealth, all else equal, so is a country. • “Net worth” or external wealth with respect to the rest of the world (ROW) can be calculated by adding up all of the home assets owned by ROW and then subtracting all of the ROW assets owned by the home country. • In 2012, the United States had an external wealth of about –$4,474 billion. This made the United States the world’s biggest debtor in history at the time of this writing. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 91 External Wealth The Level of External Wealth • The level of a country’s external wealth (W) equals ROW assets Home assets External wealth = owned by home owned by ROW (5-14) W A L • A country’s level of external wealth is also called its net international investment position or net foreign assets. It is a stock measure, not a flow measure. If W > 0, home is a net creditor country: external assets exceed external liabilities. If W < 0, home is a net debtor country: external liabilities exceed external assets. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 92 External Wealth Changes in External Wealth • There are two reasons a country’s level of external wealth changes over time. 1. Financial flows: As a result of asset trades, the country can increase or decrease its external assets and liabilities. Net exports of home assets cause an equal increase in the level of external liabilities and hence a corresponding decrease in external wealth. 2. Valuation effects: The value of existing external assets and liabilities may change over time because of capital gains or losses. In the case of external wealth, this change in value could be due to price effects or exchange rate effects. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 93 External Wealth Changes in External Wealth • Adding up these two contributions to the change in external wealth (ΔW), we find Change in Financial external wealth account W Net export of assets = FA Capital gains on external wealth (5-15) Valuation effects = Capital gains minus capital losses • Since −FA = CA + KA, substituting this identity into Equation (515), we obtain Change in Current Capital Capital gains on external wealth account account external wealth (5-16) W CA = Unspent income KA = Net capital transfers received © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor Valuation effects = Capital gains minus capital losses 94 The net international investment position (External Wealth) • One reason why the concept of Current Account Balance is economically important is that it reflects a country’s net borrowing needs. • For example, as we saw earlier, in 2012 the United States ran a current account deficit of 475 billion dollars. • To pay for this deficit, the country must have either reduced part of its international asset position or increased its international liability position or both. • In this way, the current account is related to changes in a country’s net international investment position. The Current Account and the Net International Investment Position • So we have that ΔNIIP = CA + valuation changes, • where NIIP denotes the net international investment position, CA denotes the current account, and Δ denotes change. • In the absence of valuation changes, the level of the current account must equal the change in the net international investment position. Valuation Changes and the Net International Investment Position • We saw earlier that a country’s net international investment position can change either because of current account surpluses or deficits or because of changes in the value of its international asset and liability positions. • To understand how valuation changes can alter a country’s NIIP, consider the following hypothetical example. An example • Suppose a country’s international asset position, denoted A, consists of 25 shares in the Italian company Fiat. • Suppose the price of each Fiat share is 2 euros. • Then we have that theforeign asset position measured in euros is 25 × 2 = 50 euros. • Suppose that the country’s international liabilities, denoted L, consist of 80 units of bonds issued by the local government and held by foreigners. • Suppose further that the price of local bonds is 1 dollar per unit, where the dollar is the local currency. • Then we have that total foreign liabilities are L = 80 × 1 = 80 dollars. An example • Assume finally that the exchange rate is 2 dollars per euro. Then, the country’s foreign asset position measured in dollars is A = 50 × 2 = 100. • The country’s NIIP is given by the difference between its international asset position, A, and its international liability position, L, or NIIP = A − L = 100 − 80 = 20. • Suppose now that the euro suffers a significant depreciation, losing half of its value relative to the dollar. • The new exchange rate is therefore 1 dollar per euro. Since the country’s international asset position is denominated in euros, its value in dollars automatically falls. • Specifically, its new value is A0 = 50 × 1 = 50 dollars. An example • The country’s international liability position measured in dollars does notchange, because it is composed of instruments denominated in the local currency. • As a result, the country’s new international investment position is NIIP0 = A0 − L = 50 − 80 = −30. • It follows that just because of a movement in the exchange rate, the country went from being a net creditor of the rest of the world to being a net debtor. • This example illustrates that an appreciation of the domestic currency can reduce the net foreign asset position. An example • Consider now the effect an increase in foreign stock prices on the net international investment position of the domestic country. • Specifically, suppose that the price of the Fiat stock jumps up from 2 to 7 euros. • This price change increases the value of the country’s asset position to 25 × 7 = 175 euros, or at an exchange rate of 1 dollars per euro to 175 dollars. • The country’s international liabilities do not change in value. The NIIP then turns positive again and equals 175 − 80 = 95 dollars. This example shows that an increase in foreign stock prices can improve a country’s net international investment position. An example • Finally, suppose that, because of a successful fiscal reform in the domestic country, the price of local government bonds increases from 1 to 1.5 dollars. • In this case, the country’s gross foreign asset position remains unchanged at 175 dollars, but its international liability position jumps up to 80×1.5 = 120 dollars. • As a consequence, the NIIP falls from 95 to to 55 dollars. An example • The above examples show how a country’s net international investment position can display large swings solely because of movements in asset prices or exchange rates. • In reality, valuation changes have been an important source of movements in the NIIP of the United States, especially in the past two decades. Valuation Changes and the Net International Investment Position • Another way to visualize the importance of valuation changes is to compare the actual NIIP with the one that would have obtained in the absence of any valuation changes. • To compute a time series for this hypothetical NIIP, start by setting its initial value equal to the actual value. • Our sample starts in 1976, so we set Hypothetical NIIP1976 = NIIP1976. • Now, according to identity ΔNIIP = CA + valuation change, if no valuation changes had occurred in 1977, we would have that the change in the NIIP between 1976 and 1977, would have been equal to the current account in 1977, that is, Hypothetical NIIP1977 = NIIP1976 + CA1977, where CA1977 is the actual current account in 1977. Valuation Changes and the Net International Investment Position • Combining this expression with identity, ΔNIIP = CA + valuation change, we have that the hypothetical NIIP in 1978 is given by the NIIP in 1976 plus the accumulated current accounts from 1977 to 1978, that is, Hypothetical NIIP1978 = NIIP1976 + CA1977 + CA1978. • In general, for any year t, the hypothetical NIIP is given by the actual NIIP in 1976 plus the accumulated current accounts between 1977 and t. • Formally, Hypothetical NIIPt = NIIP1976 + CA1977 + CA1978 + · · ·+ CAt. Valuation Changes and the Net International Investment Position • What caused these large change in the value of assets in favor of the United States? – Milesi-Ferretti, of the International Monetary Fund, decomposes the largest valuation changes in the sample, which took place from 2002 to the end of 2007 • He identifies two main factors. First, the U.S. dollar depreciated relative to other currencies by about 20 percent in real terms. This is a relevant factor because the currency denomination of the U.S. foreign asset and liability positions is asymmetric. • The asset side is composed mostly of foreign-currency denominated financial instruments, while the liability side is mostly composed of dollardenominated instruments. • As a result, a depreciation of the U.S. dollar increases the dollar value of U.S.-owned assets, while leaving more or less unchanged the dollar value of foreign-owned assets, thereby strengthening the U.S. net international investment position. Valuation Changes and the Net International Investment Position • Second, the stock markets in foreign countries significantly outperformed the U.S. stock market. • Specifically, a dollar invested in foreign stock markets in 2002 returned 2.90 dollars by the end of 2007. • By contrast, a dollar invested in the U.S. market in 2002, yielded only 1.90 dollars at the end of 2007. • These gains in foreign equity resulted in an increase in the net equity position of the U.S. from the insignificant level of $0.04 trillion in 2002 to $3 trillion by 2007. External Wealth Understanding the Data on External Wealth TABLE 5-3 (1 of 3) U.S. External Wealth in 2011-2012 The table shows changes in the U.S. net international investment position during the year 2012 in billions of dollars. The net result in row 3 equals row 1 minus row 2. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 111 External Wealth Understanding the Data on External Wealth TABLE 5-3 (2 of 3) U.S. External Wealth in 2011-2012 (continued) The table shows changes in the U.S. net international investment position during the year 2012 in billions of dollars. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 112 External Wealth Understanding the Data on External Wealth TABLE 5-3 (3 of 3) U.S. External Wealth in 2011-2012 (continued) The table shows changes in the U.S. net international investment position during the year 2011 in billions of dollars. The net result in row 3 equals row 1 minus row 2. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 113 External Wealth Some Recent Trends • For the past 30 years the United States has almost always had a financial account surplus, reflecting a net export of assets to the rest of the world to pay for chronic current account deficits. • If there were no valuation effects, then Eq. (5-15) implies that the change in the level of external wealth should equal the cumulative net import of assets over the intervening period. • But valuation effects or capital gains can generate a significant difference in external wealth. • From 1988 to 2012 these effects reduced U.S. net external indebtedness in 2012 by more than half compared with the level that financial flows alone would have predicted. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 114 External Wealth What External Wealth Tells Us • External wealth data tell us the net credit or debit position of a country with respect to the rest of the world. • They include data on external assets (foreign assets owned by the home country) and external liabilities (home assets owned by foreigners). • A creditor country has positive external wealth, a debtor country has negative external wealth. • Countries with a current account surplus (deficit) must be net buyers (sellers) of assets. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 115 External Wealth What External Wealth Tells Us • An increase in a country’s external wealth results from every net import of assets; conversely, a decrease in external wealth results from every net export of assets. • In addition, countries can experience capital gains or losses on their external assets and liabilities that cause changes in external wealth. • All of these changes are summarized in the statement of a country’s net international investment position. © 2014 Worth Publishers International Economics, 3e | Feenstra/Taylor 116