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Chapter 3
The Balance
of Payments
The Balance of Payments:
Learning Objectives
• Explain how nations measure their own levels
of international economic activity, and how that
is measured by the balance of payments
• Examine the economic relationships underlying
the two basic sub-components of the balance
of payments – the Current and Capital
Accounts
• Identify the financial dimensions of
international economic activity, and how they
differ between merchandise & services trade
The Balance of Payments
• Identify balance of payment activities by
nations in pursuit of macroeconomic policies
• Evaluate the history of capital mobility, and
conditions that lead to capital flight in times of
crisis
The Balance of Payments
• The measurement of all international economic
transactions between the residents of a country
and foreign residents is called the Balance of
Payments (BOP)
– The IMF is the primary source of similar
statistics worldwide
– Multinational businesses use various BOP
measures to gauge the growth and health of
specific types of trade or financial transactions
by country and regions of the world against the
home country
The Balance of Payments
– Monetary and fiscal policy must take the BOP into
account at the national level
– Businesses need BOP data to anticipate changes in host
country’s economic policies driven by BOP events
– BOP data may be important for the following reasons
• BOP is important indicator of pressure on a country’s
exchange rate, thus potential to either gain or lose if firm is
trading with that country or currency
• Changes in a country’s BOP may signal imposition (or
removal) of controls over payments, dividends, interest, etc
• BOP helps to forecast a country’s market potential,
especially in the short run
Typical BOP Transactions
• Examples of BOP transactions from US
perspective
– Honda US is the distributor of cars manufactured in
Japan by its parent, Honda of Japan
– US based firm, Fluor Corp., manages the construction of
a major water treatment facility in Bangkok, Thailand
– US subsidiary of French firm, Saint Gobain, pays profits
(dividends) back to parent firm in Paris
– An American tourist purchases a small Lapponia
necklace in Finland
– A Mexican lawyer purchases a US corporate bond
through an investment broker in Cleveland
• A rule of thumb that aids in understanding the BOP
is to “follow the cash flow”
A. Current Account
A. Net exports/imports of goods and services (Balance of Trade)
B. Net Income (investment income from direct portfolio
investment plus employee compensation
C. Net transfers (sums sent home by migrant and permanent
workers abroad)
B Capital Account
Capital transfers related to purchase and sale of fixed assets such as real estate
C. Financial Account
A. Net foreign direct investment
B. Net portfolio investment
C. Other financial items
D. Net Errors and Omissions
Missing data such as illegal transfers
E. Reserves and Related Items
Changes in official monetary reserves including gold and foreign exchange reserves
Σ (A:E) = Overall Balance
The Balance of Payments
Fundamentals of BOP Accounting
• The BOP must balance
• Three main elements of actual process of
measuring international economic activity
– Identifying what is/is not an international
economic transaction
– Understanding how the flow of goods, services,
assets, money create debits and credits
– Understanding the bookkeeping procedures for
BOP accounting
Defining International Economic
Transactions
• Current Account Transactions
– The export of merchandise, goods such as trucks,
machinery, computers is an international transaction
– Imports such as French wine, Japanese cameras and
German automobiles are international transactions
– The purchase of a glass figure in Venice by an American
tourist is a US merchandise import
• Financial Account Transactions
– The purchase of a US Treasury bill by a foreign resident
BOP as a Flow Statement
• Exchange of Real Assets – exchange of goods
and services for other goods and services or
for monetary payment
• Exchange of Financial Assets – Exchange of
financial claims for other financial claims
The Current Account
• Goods Trade – export/import of goods.
• Services Trade – export/import of services; common services are
financial services provided by banks to foreign investors,
construction services and tourism services
• Income – predominately current income associated with
investments which were made in previous periods. Additionally
the wages & salaries paid to non-resident workers
• Current Transfers – financial settlements associated with change
in ownership of real resources or financial items. Any transfer
between countries which is one-way, a gift or a grant,is termed a
current transfer
• Typically dominated by the export/import of goods, for this reason
the Balance of Trade (BOT) is widely quoted
Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000.
-$500
-$400
-$300
-$200
-$100
$0
$100
$200
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Balance on goods Services
U.S. Trade Balance & Balance on Services &
Income, 1985-2002 (billions of US$)
The Capital/Financial Account
• Capital account is made up of transfers of fixed assets
such as real estate and acquisitions/disposal of non-
produced/non-financial assets
• Financial account consists of three components and is
classified either by maturity of asset or nature of
ownership. The three components are
– Direct Investment – Net balance of capital which is
dispersed from and into a country for the purpose of
exerting control over assets. This category includes
foreign direct investment
The Capital/Financial Account
– Portfolio Investment – Net balance of capital
which flows in and out of the country but does
not reach the 10% ownership threshold of direct
investment. The purchase and sale of debt or
equity securities is included in this category
• This capital is purely return motivated
– Other Investment Assets/Liabilities – Consists
of various short and long-term trade credits,
cross-border loans, currency and bank deposits
and other accounts receivable and payable
related to cross-border trade
-$100
$0
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Net direct investment Net portfolio investment Net other investment
Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000.
The United States Financial Account,
1985-2002 (billions of US$)
-$600
-$400
-$200
$0
$200
$400
$600
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Current account Financial/capital account
Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000.
Current and Financial/Capital Account
Balances for the United States,
1992-2002 (billions of US$)
The Other Accounts
• Net Errors and Omissions – Account is used to
account for statistical errors and/or untraceable
monies within a country
• Official Reserves – total reserves held by
official monetary authorities within a country.
– These reserves are typically comprised of major
currencies that are used in international trade
and financial transactions and reserve accounts
(SDRs) held at the IMF
The Balance of Payments in Total
Balance of Payments Interaction
with Key Macroeconomic Variables
• A nation’s balance of payments interacts with
nearly all of its key macroeconomic variables:
– Gross domestic product (GDP)
– The exchange rate
– Interest rates
– Inflation rates
Balance of Payments Interaction with
Key Macroeconomic Variables
• In a static (accounting) sense, a nation’s GDP
can be represented by the following equation:
GDP = C + I + G + X – M
C = consumption spending
I = capital investment spending
G = government spending
X = exports of goods and services
M = imports of goods and services
X – M =
Current account
balance
The Balance of Payments and
Exchange Rates
• A country’s BOP can have a significant impact on the
level of its exchange rate and vice versa depending on
that country’s exchange rate regime
• The effect of an imbalance in the BOP of a country
works somewhat differently depending on whether that
country has fixed exchange rates, floating exchange
rates, or a managed exchange rate system
– Under a fixed exchange rate system the government
bears the responsibility to assure a BOP near zero
– Under a floating exchange rate system, the government
of a country has no responsibility to peg its foreign
exchange rate
• The relationship between BOP and exchange rates can
be illustrated by use of a simplified equation:
CI = capital inflows
CO = capital outflows
FI = financial inflows
FO = financial outflows
FXB = official monetary reserves
The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
Current
Account
Balance
(X-M)
Capital
Account
Balance
(CI - CO)
Financial
Account
Balance
(FI - FO)
Reserve
Balance
(FXB)
Balance
of
Payments
BOP
++ + =
The Balance of Payments and
Interest Rates
• Apart from the use of interest rates to intervene in the
foreign exchange market, the overall level of a
country’s interest rates compared to other countries
does have an impact on the financial account of the
balance of payments
• Relatively low interest rates should normally stimulate
an outflow of capital seeking higher interest rates in
other country-currencies
• In the U.S. however, the opposite has occurred as a
result of attractive growth rate prospects, high levels of
productive innovation, and perceived political stability
The Balance of Payments and
Inflation Rates
• Imports have the potential to lower a country’s
inflation rate
• In particular, imports of lower priced goods and
services places a limit on what domestic
competitors charge for comparable goods and
services
Capital Mobility
• The degree to which capital moves freely cross-border
is critically important to a country’s balance of
payments
• Historical patterns of capital mobility
– 1860-1914 – period characterized by continuously
increasing capital openness as more countries adopted
the gold standard and expanded international trade
relations
– 1914-1945 – period of global economic destruction due
to two world wars and a global depression
– 1945-1971 – Bretton Woods era, saw great expansion of
international trade in goods and services
– 1971-2002 – period characterized by floating exchange
rates, economic volatility, but rapidly expanding cross-
border capital flows
Source: “Globalization and Capital Markets,” Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor, NBER Conference Paper,
May 4-5, 2001, p. 6.
Low
High
Capital Mobility
18801860 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
•
•
•
•
1880
1900
1914
1860
Gold Standard
1880-1914
••
1960
1971
Bretton Woods
1945-1971
•
•1980
2000
Float
1971-2000
•1918
•
Interwar, 1914-1945
1929
1925
•1945
•
Capital Mobility
Capital Flight
“International flows of direct and portfolio
investments under ordinary circumstances are
rarely associated with the capital flight
phenomenon. Rather, it is when capital transfers
by residents conflict with political objectives that
the term “flight” comes into general usage.”
—Ingo Walter, Capital Flight and Third World Debt
Capital Flight
• Five primary mechanisms exist by which capital
may be moved from one country to another:
– Transfers via the usual international payments
mechanisms, regular bank transfers are easiest,
cheapest and legal
– Transfer of physical currency by bearer (smuggling) is
more costly, and for many countries illegal
– Transfer of cash into collectibles or precious metals,
which are then transferred across borders
– Money laundering, the cross-border purchase of assets
which are then managed in a way that hide the
movement of money and its owners
– False invoicing on international trade transactions
Summary of Learning Objectives
• The Balance of Payments is the summary statement of
all international transactions between one country and
all other countries
• The Balance of Payments is a flow statement,
summarizing all the international transactions that
occur across the geographic boundaries of the nation
over a period of time, typically a year
• Although the BOP must always balance in theory, in
practice there are substantial imbalances as a result of
statistical errors and misreporting of current account
and financial/capital account flows
Summary of Learning Objectives
• The two major sub-accounts of the balance of
payments, the current account and the financial/capital
account, summarize the current trade and international
capital flows of the country respectively
• The current account and financial/capital account are
typically inverse on balance, one in surplus while the
other experiences deficit
• Although most nations strive for current account
surpluses, it is not clear that a balance on current or
capital account, or a surplus on current account, is
either sustainable or desirable
Summary of Learning Objectives
• Although merchandise trade is more easily
observed, the growth of services trade is more
significant to the BOP for many of the world’s
largest industrialized countries today
• Monitoring of the various sub-accounts of a
country’s BOP activity is helpful to decision-
makers and policy-makers on all levels of
government and industry in detecting the
underlying trends and movement of
fundamental economic forces driving a
country’s international economic activity
Summary of Learning Objectives
• The balance of payments interacts with nearly all of a
nation’s key macroeconomic variables, such as GDP,
the exchange rate, interest rates, and inflation rates
• The ability of capital to move instantaneously and
massively cross-border has been one of the major
factors in the severity of recent currency crises
• Although not limited to heavily indebted countries, the
rapid and sometimes illegal transfer of convertible
currencies out of a country poses significant economic
and political problems
Mini Case: Turkey’s Kriz
• In February 2001 Turkey’s rapidly escalating economic
kriz, or crisis, forced the devaluation of the Turkish lira
• The Turkish gov’t had successfully waged war on the
inflationary forces embedded in the country’s economy
in 1999 and early 2000
• As the economy began to boom in the second half of
2000, pressures on the country’s balance of payments
and currency rose
• Many analysts wondered if this crisis had been
predictable and what early signs of deterioration would
have been noted by the outside world
Mini Case Questions: Turkey’s Kriz
• Where in the current account would the
imported telecommunications equipment be
listed? Would this correspond to the increase
in magnitude and timing of the financial
account?
• Why do you think that net direct investment
declined from $571 million in 1998 to $112
million in 2000?
• Why do you think that TelSim defaulted on its
payments for equipment imports from Nokia
and Motorola?
Exhibit 3.1 Generic Balance of
Payments
Exhibit 3.2 The United States Current
Account, 1998–2002 (billions of US$)
Exhibit 3.3 U.S. Trade Balance and
Balance on Services and Income,
1985–2002 (billions of US$)
Exhibit 3.5 The U.S. Financial Account,
1985–2002 (billions of US$)
Exhibit 3.4 The U.S. Financial Account
and Components, 1998–2002 (billions
of US$)
Exhibit 3.6 Current and Financial/Capital
Account Balances for the United States,
1992–2002 (billions of US$)
Exhibit 3.7 The U.S. Balance of
Payments, Analytic Presentation, 1993–
2002
(billions of US$)
Exhibit 3.7 (continued)
Real World Example 3.1
Exhibit 3.8 A Stylized View of Capital
Mobility in Modern History
Exhibit 1 Turkey’s Balance of
Payments, 1993–2000
Exhibit 2 Subaccounts of the Turkish
Current Account, 1998–2000 (millions
of US$)
Exhibit 3 Subaccounts of the Turkish
Financial Account, 1998–2000 (millions
of US$)

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Determination of exchange rates

  • 2. The Balance of Payments: Learning Objectives • Explain how nations measure their own levels of international economic activity, and how that is measured by the balance of payments • Examine the economic relationships underlying the two basic sub-components of the balance of payments – the Current and Capital Accounts • Identify the financial dimensions of international economic activity, and how they differ between merchandise & services trade
  • 3. The Balance of Payments • Identify balance of payment activities by nations in pursuit of macroeconomic policies • Evaluate the history of capital mobility, and conditions that lead to capital flight in times of crisis
  • 4. The Balance of Payments • The measurement of all international economic transactions between the residents of a country and foreign residents is called the Balance of Payments (BOP) – The IMF is the primary source of similar statistics worldwide – Multinational businesses use various BOP measures to gauge the growth and health of specific types of trade or financial transactions by country and regions of the world against the home country
  • 5. The Balance of Payments – Monetary and fiscal policy must take the BOP into account at the national level – Businesses need BOP data to anticipate changes in host country’s economic policies driven by BOP events – BOP data may be important for the following reasons • BOP is important indicator of pressure on a country’s exchange rate, thus potential to either gain or lose if firm is trading with that country or currency • Changes in a country’s BOP may signal imposition (or removal) of controls over payments, dividends, interest, etc • BOP helps to forecast a country’s market potential, especially in the short run
  • 6. Typical BOP Transactions • Examples of BOP transactions from US perspective – Honda US is the distributor of cars manufactured in Japan by its parent, Honda of Japan – US based firm, Fluor Corp., manages the construction of a major water treatment facility in Bangkok, Thailand – US subsidiary of French firm, Saint Gobain, pays profits (dividends) back to parent firm in Paris – An American tourist purchases a small Lapponia necklace in Finland – A Mexican lawyer purchases a US corporate bond through an investment broker in Cleveland • A rule of thumb that aids in understanding the BOP is to “follow the cash flow”
  • 7. A. Current Account A. Net exports/imports of goods and services (Balance of Trade) B. Net Income (investment income from direct portfolio investment plus employee compensation C. Net transfers (sums sent home by migrant and permanent workers abroad) B Capital Account Capital transfers related to purchase and sale of fixed assets such as real estate C. Financial Account A. Net foreign direct investment B. Net portfolio investment C. Other financial items D. Net Errors and Omissions Missing data such as illegal transfers E. Reserves and Related Items Changes in official monetary reserves including gold and foreign exchange reserves Σ (A:E) = Overall Balance The Balance of Payments
  • 8. Fundamentals of BOP Accounting • The BOP must balance • Three main elements of actual process of measuring international economic activity – Identifying what is/is not an international economic transaction – Understanding how the flow of goods, services, assets, money create debits and credits – Understanding the bookkeeping procedures for BOP accounting
  • 9. Defining International Economic Transactions • Current Account Transactions – The export of merchandise, goods such as trucks, machinery, computers is an international transaction – Imports such as French wine, Japanese cameras and German automobiles are international transactions – The purchase of a glass figure in Venice by an American tourist is a US merchandise import • Financial Account Transactions – The purchase of a US Treasury bill by a foreign resident
  • 10. BOP as a Flow Statement • Exchange of Real Assets – exchange of goods and services for other goods and services or for monetary payment • Exchange of Financial Assets – Exchange of financial claims for other financial claims
  • 11. The Current Account • Goods Trade – export/import of goods. • Services Trade – export/import of services; common services are financial services provided by banks to foreign investors, construction services and tourism services • Income – predominately current income associated with investments which were made in previous periods. Additionally the wages & salaries paid to non-resident workers • Current Transfers – financial settlements associated with change in ownership of real resources or financial items. Any transfer between countries which is one-way, a gift or a grant,is termed a current transfer • Typically dominated by the export/import of goods, for this reason the Balance of Trade (BOT) is widely quoted
  • 12. Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000. -$500 -$400 -$300 -$200 -$100 $0 $100 $200 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Balance on goods Services U.S. Trade Balance & Balance on Services & Income, 1985-2002 (billions of US$)
  • 13. The Capital/Financial Account • Capital account is made up of transfers of fixed assets such as real estate and acquisitions/disposal of non- produced/non-financial assets • Financial account consists of three components and is classified either by maturity of asset or nature of ownership. The three components are – Direct Investment – Net balance of capital which is dispersed from and into a country for the purpose of exerting control over assets. This category includes foreign direct investment
  • 14. The Capital/Financial Account – Portfolio Investment – Net balance of capital which flows in and out of the country but does not reach the 10% ownership threshold of direct investment. The purchase and sale of debt or equity securities is included in this category • This capital is purely return motivated – Other Investment Assets/Liabilities – Consists of various short and long-term trade credits, cross-border loans, currency and bank deposits and other accounts receivable and payable related to cross-border trade
  • 15. -$100 $0 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Net direct investment Net portfolio investment Net other investment Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000. The United States Financial Account, 1985-2002 (billions of US$)
  • 16. -$600 -$400 -$200 $0 $200 $400 $600 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Current account Financial/capital account Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2000. Current and Financial/Capital Account Balances for the United States, 1992-2002 (billions of US$)
  • 17. The Other Accounts • Net Errors and Omissions – Account is used to account for statistical errors and/or untraceable monies within a country • Official Reserves – total reserves held by official monetary authorities within a country. – These reserves are typically comprised of major currencies that are used in international trade and financial transactions and reserve accounts (SDRs) held at the IMF
  • 18. The Balance of Payments in Total
  • 19. Balance of Payments Interaction with Key Macroeconomic Variables • A nation’s balance of payments interacts with nearly all of its key macroeconomic variables: – Gross domestic product (GDP) – The exchange rate – Interest rates – Inflation rates
  • 20. Balance of Payments Interaction with Key Macroeconomic Variables • In a static (accounting) sense, a nation’s GDP can be represented by the following equation: GDP = C + I + G + X – M C = consumption spending I = capital investment spending G = government spending X = exports of goods and services M = imports of goods and services X – M = Current account balance
  • 21. The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates • A country’s BOP can have a significant impact on the level of its exchange rate and vice versa depending on that country’s exchange rate regime • The effect of an imbalance in the BOP of a country works somewhat differently depending on whether that country has fixed exchange rates, floating exchange rates, or a managed exchange rate system – Under a fixed exchange rate system the government bears the responsibility to assure a BOP near zero – Under a floating exchange rate system, the government of a country has no responsibility to peg its foreign exchange rate
  • 22. • The relationship between BOP and exchange rates can be illustrated by use of a simplified equation: CI = capital inflows CO = capital outflows FI = financial inflows FO = financial outflows FXB = official monetary reserves The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates Current Account Balance (X-M) Capital Account Balance (CI - CO) Financial Account Balance (FI - FO) Reserve Balance (FXB) Balance of Payments BOP ++ + =
  • 23. The Balance of Payments and Interest Rates • Apart from the use of interest rates to intervene in the foreign exchange market, the overall level of a country’s interest rates compared to other countries does have an impact on the financial account of the balance of payments • Relatively low interest rates should normally stimulate an outflow of capital seeking higher interest rates in other country-currencies • In the U.S. however, the opposite has occurred as a result of attractive growth rate prospects, high levels of productive innovation, and perceived political stability
  • 24. The Balance of Payments and Inflation Rates • Imports have the potential to lower a country’s inflation rate • In particular, imports of lower priced goods and services places a limit on what domestic competitors charge for comparable goods and services
  • 25. Capital Mobility • The degree to which capital moves freely cross-border is critically important to a country’s balance of payments • Historical patterns of capital mobility – 1860-1914 – period characterized by continuously increasing capital openness as more countries adopted the gold standard and expanded international trade relations – 1914-1945 – period of global economic destruction due to two world wars and a global depression – 1945-1971 – Bretton Woods era, saw great expansion of international trade in goods and services – 1971-2002 – period characterized by floating exchange rates, economic volatility, but rapidly expanding cross- border capital flows
  • 26. Source: “Globalization and Capital Markets,” Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor, NBER Conference Paper, May 4-5, 2001, p. 6. Low High Capital Mobility 18801860 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 • • • • 1880 1900 1914 1860 Gold Standard 1880-1914 •• 1960 1971 Bretton Woods 1945-1971 • •1980 2000 Float 1971-2000 •1918 • Interwar, 1914-1945 1929 1925 •1945 • Capital Mobility
  • 27. Capital Flight “International flows of direct and portfolio investments under ordinary circumstances are rarely associated with the capital flight phenomenon. Rather, it is when capital transfers by residents conflict with political objectives that the term “flight” comes into general usage.” —Ingo Walter, Capital Flight and Third World Debt
  • 28. Capital Flight • Five primary mechanisms exist by which capital may be moved from one country to another: – Transfers via the usual international payments mechanisms, regular bank transfers are easiest, cheapest and legal – Transfer of physical currency by bearer (smuggling) is more costly, and for many countries illegal – Transfer of cash into collectibles or precious metals, which are then transferred across borders – Money laundering, the cross-border purchase of assets which are then managed in a way that hide the movement of money and its owners – False invoicing on international trade transactions
  • 29. Summary of Learning Objectives • The Balance of Payments is the summary statement of all international transactions between one country and all other countries • The Balance of Payments is a flow statement, summarizing all the international transactions that occur across the geographic boundaries of the nation over a period of time, typically a year • Although the BOP must always balance in theory, in practice there are substantial imbalances as a result of statistical errors and misreporting of current account and financial/capital account flows
  • 30. Summary of Learning Objectives • The two major sub-accounts of the balance of payments, the current account and the financial/capital account, summarize the current trade and international capital flows of the country respectively • The current account and financial/capital account are typically inverse on balance, one in surplus while the other experiences deficit • Although most nations strive for current account surpluses, it is not clear that a balance on current or capital account, or a surplus on current account, is either sustainable or desirable
  • 31. Summary of Learning Objectives • Although merchandise trade is more easily observed, the growth of services trade is more significant to the BOP for many of the world’s largest industrialized countries today • Monitoring of the various sub-accounts of a country’s BOP activity is helpful to decision- makers and policy-makers on all levels of government and industry in detecting the underlying trends and movement of fundamental economic forces driving a country’s international economic activity
  • 32. Summary of Learning Objectives • The balance of payments interacts with nearly all of a nation’s key macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, the exchange rate, interest rates, and inflation rates • The ability of capital to move instantaneously and massively cross-border has been one of the major factors in the severity of recent currency crises • Although not limited to heavily indebted countries, the rapid and sometimes illegal transfer of convertible currencies out of a country poses significant economic and political problems
  • 33. Mini Case: Turkey’s Kriz • In February 2001 Turkey’s rapidly escalating economic kriz, or crisis, forced the devaluation of the Turkish lira • The Turkish gov’t had successfully waged war on the inflationary forces embedded in the country’s economy in 1999 and early 2000 • As the economy began to boom in the second half of 2000, pressures on the country’s balance of payments and currency rose • Many analysts wondered if this crisis had been predictable and what early signs of deterioration would have been noted by the outside world
  • 34. Mini Case Questions: Turkey’s Kriz • Where in the current account would the imported telecommunications equipment be listed? Would this correspond to the increase in magnitude and timing of the financial account? • Why do you think that net direct investment declined from $571 million in 1998 to $112 million in 2000? • Why do you think that TelSim defaulted on its payments for equipment imports from Nokia and Motorola?
  • 35. Exhibit 3.1 Generic Balance of Payments
  • 36. Exhibit 3.2 The United States Current Account, 1998–2002 (billions of US$)
  • 37. Exhibit 3.3 U.S. Trade Balance and Balance on Services and Income, 1985–2002 (billions of US$)
  • 38. Exhibit 3.5 The U.S. Financial Account, 1985–2002 (billions of US$)
  • 39. Exhibit 3.4 The U.S. Financial Account and Components, 1998–2002 (billions of US$)
  • 40. Exhibit 3.6 Current and Financial/Capital Account Balances for the United States, 1992–2002 (billions of US$)
  • 41. Exhibit 3.7 The U.S. Balance of Payments, Analytic Presentation, 1993– 2002 (billions of US$)
  • 44. Exhibit 3.8 A Stylized View of Capital Mobility in Modern History
  • 45. Exhibit 1 Turkey’s Balance of Payments, 1993–2000
  • 46. Exhibit 2 Subaccounts of the Turkish Current Account, 1998–2000 (millions of US$)
  • 47. Exhibit 3 Subaccounts of the Turkish Financial Account, 1998–2000 (millions of US$)