Questions tagged [balance-of-payments]
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Why FDI stock in the same year is different in the same reports?
From World Investment Report 2003, in 2000, the US has 12.4% GDP as FDI inward stock and 13.2% GDP as FDI outward stock. These numbers are equivalent to 1274720 million USD, and 1356960 million USD. ...
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Are there any benefits of moderate devaluation of a currency?
The value of Indian rupee has decreased over the years. The government apparently makes no effort to stop or reverse it. Instead they focus on other aspects of development.
Observation 1-
I see that ...
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How are trade deficits financed?
The usual answer is either "foreign debt" or "Foreign Direct Investment". But:
Why does that make sense?
And why wouldn't be financed otherwise like from importers taking out bank loans domestically ...
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Difference between capital and current account
Why is an increase in foreign assets in a country different from us just selling foreigners our goods? As in why is one (inc. in assets) in capital account and the other (exports) in current account?
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Where in the BOP does the rental of a building appear?
Say a Japanese citizen (living and working in Japan) owns a house in the US and rents it out (to a US resident) for \$10,000 in 2020. (Assume the value of the land is negligible.)
Where in the US BOP ...
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Unilateral transfers in the balance of payments
In the secondary income account, unilateral transfers like unconditional foreign aid are recorded but aren't every transaction double-entry to make the balance of payments equal 0. What is the other ...
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help understanding the "financing" of the current account
I often hear phrases like country XYZ "finances its current account deficit through flows in its financial account". i have a tough time understanding this idea of "financing" a current account ...
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If the BOP is always equal to 0 then why would a trade imbalance cause currencies to fluctuate?
I am a bit confused in interpreting the correlation between a trade deficit/surplus & currency depreciation/appreciation. Considering BOP always equals 0 and a outflow in the current account is ...
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How does Russia have so much foreign exchange reserves?
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Russia is under U.S. sanctions. How does Russia have so much foreign exchange reserves?
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Sources of data for GDP and BoP accounts
When an American buys a coffee within the US, how does that 3.50 dollars worth of consumption expenditure make it's way to the US GDP account? Is the information obtained from the company's tax ...
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Where's a good place to find Information on Non-OCED countries?
I'm looking for Private Savings (Sp), Investment (I), Taxes (T), Government Spending (G) for India.
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Terms definition in Balance of Payment
I have problems in distinguishing among terms in the Balance of Payment / the international balance sheet of a nation.
As far as I know, on Assets and Liabilities sides of BPM, there are Portfolio ...
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Can anyone explain why the Swiss balance of payments is not balanced (real data)?
While doing a little research I went to the Swiss National Bank's website and downloaded their data on the Swiss balance of payments.
The data is here:
https://data.snb.ch/en/topics/aube#!/cube/...
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Does a high current account deficit devalue the national currency?
I've been reading some materials about Belarus's 2011 financial crisis, and a common thread among them is this: Belarus had had a rapidly growing current account deficit, and in 2011 it came to a head ...
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Gap between BOP and macroeconomic terminologies (In my opinion)
I have not studied BOP well, but as far as i can understand, there is a mismatch between BOP and macroeconomics terminologies. In BOP we say that capital outflow (inflow) occures when finacial account ...
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Why a Current Account deficit implies a Financial Account surplus [duplicate]
Every macro textbook out there states that if a country has a Current Account deficit, it must have a surplus in the Financial account, but I have not heard a convincing explanation.
Imagine a ...
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Devaluation of exchange rate meaning
Pilbeam's textbook on International Finance (p. 106) says:
(...) the immediate effect of a devaluation of exchange rate from $S_1$ to $S_2$ is to make domestic good competitive (...)
How can be ...
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Is there a quantitative model demonstrating the relationship between balance of payments and exchange rate?
According to conventional analysis, a key factor in exchange rate determination is the state of the balance of payments.
An increase in imports gives rise to an increase in a demand for foreign ...
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on the FRED website where do i find definitions of the variables they give charts of?
eg M3?
how can we see precisely how it is defined, measured?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S?fbclid=IwAR1lwaCbKUX16L1meOk6iZvloYOW0F7pIjmq9I4sb5VfvhhLhj8lsVTlpxg
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Does a high current account deficit ALWAYS have to increase net foreign debt/equity?
My book states a higher CAD necessarily increases net foreign debt/net foreign equity, and I'm a bit confused by this assertion.
See, I can understand how a higher current account deficit may ...
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What happens if the Central Bank does not absorb a BOP deficit/surplus?
The basic principle of BOP accounting is double entry bookkeeping. In short, every transaction enters twice. As a consequence of this, by definition
$$\text{Current account } (CA) + \text{Capital ...
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Balance of payments and the free floating exchange rate system
I am a beginner economics student and recently, I have been learning about how balance of payments surpluses are important for a country to control the value of its currency using its accumulated ...
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Have UK exports (goods and services) to Ireland declined in value since 2011?
Where can I find the relevant Office Of National Statistics data on UK exports to Ireland? I want to know if the value of UK exports to Ireland has declined since 2011 and if so, does anyone know why ...
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How to interpret illigal foreign currency (cash) transfers in terms of Balance of payments
There are a lot of examples of legal operations with trade balance and capital flows. Nonetheless, I've failed to find a clear explanations of how to interpret illigal (read, criminal) foreign ...
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What's the role for official intervention in the Balance of Payments?
If the Balance of Payments (BP) is defined as
$$BP=\text{Current Account}+\text{Capital Account}$$
where:
$$\text{Current Account}=X-M+\text{Net Income Interest}$$
and
$$\text{Capital Account}=\...
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Accounts Payable and Receivable- Annual Balance Sheet and Budget [closed]
Based upon the balance sheet as of 12/31/2021 for company X,
Accounts Receivable: 6,000,000
Accounts Payable: 3,000,000
Short Term Loans: 5,000,000
Information regarding 2022 budget:
On 12/31/21, X ...
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Need help with Balance of payments question
Why does a higher CAD mean a nations net external liabilities increase? My book says its due to a higher financial account but i dont understand... wouldnt a higher financial account imply there to be ...
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Has the way the balance of payments is recorded changed?
I am trying to understand the balance of payments.
My textbooks say, "the internet" also says, all those YT economics videos say (!):
BOP = Current account+Capital account+Financial account =...
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Balance of Payment (BPM6) - Direct Investment: how to record
I have a question related to recording in BOP
Let say we have two countries:
DOMES (domestic country)
EXT (external country)
a company in EXT invest a new factory in DOMES. I don't know how this ...
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Balance of Payments question
I'm trying to look at the balance of payments and whether or not a given entry is a debit or a credit in terms of the money flow. Is there an easy way to tell which it is?
We know BOP = CAB + CA +FA + ...
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China's balance of payment and balance of trade - relation to inflation
I am struggling with understanding how China's balance of payments (negative, deficit) and balance of trade (positive, profit around 0.5 trln USD) affect it's inflation rate. Obviously, balance of ...
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Interpretation of IMF Balance of Payments Data - Financial Account
While I understand the meaning of the components of the Financial account what I don't understand is the concept of "assets" and "liabilities" after direct investment, portfolio investment etc.
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why is it always said that a CAD must be financed by borrowing from foreign countries
a current account deficit (CAD) means you have money leaking out of your country and going to ROW (rest of world). i see here (https://www.imf.org/external/region/tlm/rr/pdf/fpp5.pdf) that it can be '...
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Balance of Trade - Currency devaluation in a price taker economy
How will a real exchange rate devaluation affect Balance of Trade, if an economy is a price taker in world markets for both export and import?
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What are some reasons why CEOs make 200-1000x as much as post PhD researchers?
Even the most monetarily effective Post PhD Researchers make at most a couple of million dollars over the course of their careers, whereas CEOs can earn over 1000x more over the course of theirs even ...
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How do currency traders resolve imbalances in the demand for different currencies?
Countries trade different amounts of goods that are inherently imbalanced. How do currency traders resolve these imbalances in the demand for different currencies? For example....
Imagine we have two ...
