ECON 209 Lecture Notes - Shock Absorber, Money Supply, Purchasing Power Parity

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Chapter 35 (. 4) exchange rate and the balance of payments. Current account: part of balance of payments accounts that records payments and receipts arising from trade in goods and services and from interest and dividends that are earned by capital owned in one country and invested in another. Trade account: records value of exports and imports of goods and services. Capital-service account: payments and receipts that represent income on assets such as interest and dividends. Most years significant trade surplus exports more than it imports. But because it makes more investment payments (interest and dividends) to foreigners than it receives, it has a deficit on the capital-service portion of the current account. 60-95 overall current account deficit of 2-3% of gdp. But as trade surplus has increased by more than capital-service deficit, there has been a current account surplus of 1-2% since 2000. So until 1995 current account deficits were matched by capital account surpluses.

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