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1Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
2Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
- Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes
3ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Internal and external policy objectives
- internal balance
- external balance
- narrow sense current account balance
- broad sense total currency flow balance
4Internal and external balance
W, J
(a) Internal balance
O
YF
Ye1
National income
5Internal and external balance
(b) External balance
r1
Exchange rate
Fixed exchange rate
O
Quantity of s
6ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Internal and external policy objectives
- internal balance
- external balance
- narrow sense current account balance
- broad sense total currency flow balance
- possible conflicts between internal and external
objectives
7Internal and external balance
W, J
Assume that initially there is internal
imbalance at Ye2
W2
W1
J1
J2
O
Ye2
YF
Ye1
National income
8Internal and external balance
W, J
W2
W1
J1
J2
O
Ye2
YF
Ye1
National income
9Internal and external balance
S1 by UK
r1
Exchange rate
Fixed exchange rate
D by overseas residents
O
Quantity of s
10Internal and external balance
S1 by UK
Exchange rate
r1
Or an imbalance in the narrow sense (a current
account deficit) under a floating exchange rate
D by overseas residents
O
Quantity of s
11Effects on internal and (narrow) external balance
Current account surplus
2
1
Contractionary fiscal policy Lower consumption
Exchange rate depreciation Foreign boom
Internal balance
External balance
Recession
Boom
Exchange rate appreciation Foreign recession
Expansionary fiscal policy Higher consumption
3
4
Current account deficit
12UK balance of payments as of GDP, 19702007
Source Financial Statement and Budget Report (H
M Treasury, 2005)
13ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Internal and external policy objectives
- internal balance
- external balance
- narrow sense current account balance
- broad sense total currency flow balance
- possible conflicts between internal and external
objectives - Nominal and real exchange rates
14ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Internal and external policy objectives
- internal balance
- external balance
- narrow sense current account balance
- broad sense total currency flow balance
- possible conflicts between internal and external
objectives - Nominal and real exchange rates
- real exchange rate index
- RERI NERI PX / PM
15Sterling nominal and real exchange rate
indices (1990 100)
Source based on data in Interactive Database
(Bank of England) and International Statistics
(IMF)
16Sterling nominal and real exchange rate
indices (1990 100)
Nominal exchange rate
Source based on data in Interactive Database
(Bank of England) and International Statistics
(IMF)
17Sterling nominal and real exchange rate
indices (1990 100)
Nominal exchange rate
Source based on data in Interactive Database
(Bank of England) and International Statistics
(IMF)
18Sterling nominal and real exchange rate
indices (1990 100)
Real exchange rate
Nominal exchange rate
Source based on data in Interactive Database
(Bank of England) and International Statistics
(IMF)
19Sterling nominal and real exchange rate
indices (1990 100)
Real exchange rate
Nominal exchange rate
Source based on data in Interactive Database
(Bank of England) and International Statistics
(IMF)
20ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Alternative exchange rate regimes
- completely fixed
21(a) Total currency flow deficit
Exchange rate
O
Quantity of s
22 (b) Total currency flow surplus
S by UK
Exchange rate
Fixed rate
D from abroad
O
Quantity of s
23ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Alternative exchange rate regimes
- completely fixed
- freely floating
24ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Alternative exchange rate regimes
- completely fixed
- freely floating
- intermediate
25ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Fixed exchange rates
- foreign exchange intervention
- effects on the money supply
- sterilisation
- correcting a disequilibrium
- expenditure reducing
- expenditure switching
26ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
27Adjustment of the exchange rate to a shift in
demand and supply
S1
er1
Exchange rate
D1
O
Quantity of s
28Adjustment of the exchange rate to a shift in
demand and supply
S1
er1
Exchange rate
D1
O
Quantity of s
29ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
30ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
31ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
- elasticities of currency demand and supply
32Supply of pounds and the elasticity of demand for
imports
S
Exchange rate
Elastic demand for imports
O
Quantity of s
33Supply of pounds and the elasticity of demand for
imports
Exchange rate
Inelastic demand for imports
S
O
Quantity of s
34Unstable equilibrium
Exchange rate
r
S
D
O
Quantity of s
35Unstable equilibrium
Exchange rate
r
S
D
O
Quantity of s
36ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
- elasticities of currency demand and supply
- the MarshallLerner condition
37ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
- elasticities of currency demand and supply
- the MarshallLerner condition
- expenditure changing (the income effect)
38ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
- elasticities of currency demand and supply
- the MarshallLerner condition
- expenditure changing (the income effect)
- a rise in income
39The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
O
Y
40The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
a
O
Y1
Y
b
(X M)1
41The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
a
O
Y1
Y
b
(X M)1
42The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
a
O
Y1
Y
b
(X M)1
43The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
a
O
Y1
Y
b
(X M)1
44The income effect (stable prices)
Y
E2
E1
Expenditure (E), exports (X), imports (M)
a
O
Y1
Y
b
(X M)1
45ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Free-floating exchange rates
- automatic correction
- expenditure switching (the substitution effect)
- the process of adjustment
- elasticities of currency demand and supply
- the MarshallLerner condition
- expenditure changing (the income effect)
- a rise in income
- a rise in prices
46ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Intermediate exchange rate regimes
- adjustable peg
- dirty floating
- crawling peg
47The crawling peg within exchange rate bands
1.60
1.40
Exchange rate
O
Time
Central bank sells domestic currency
No intervention
No intervention
Central bank buys domestic currency
No intervention
48ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Intermediate exchange rate regimes
- adjustable peg
- dirty floating
- crawling peg
- joint float
49ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Intermediate exchange rate regimes
- adjustable peg
- dirty floating
- crawling peg
- joint float
- exchange rate bands
50ALTERNATIVE EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
- Intermediate exchange rate regimes
- adjustable peg
- dirty floating
- crawling peg
- joint float
- exchange rate bands
- exchange rate bands under the old ERM
51Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
52FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Response to contractionary internal shock
- short-run effect
- assumption relatively inflexible wages prices
- effects of reduced aggregate demand
- current account surplus
- reduced interest rates ? financial account
deficit - financial account effect likely to be the bigger
- to prevent exchange rate falling, the interest
rate must thus not be allowed to fall so far - money supply must be allowed to contract to match
the fall in demand for money - internal imbalance will persist
53FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Response to contractionary internal shock
- long-run effect
- assume greater flexibility of wages prices
- this allows internal balance to be restored
- external effects of reduced AD
- large current account surplus from fall in real
exchange rate - reduced somewhat by the rise again in aggregate
demand from higher exports and lower imports - overall external balance restored
- current account surplus may persist
54FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Response to contractionary external shock
- short-run effect
- assumption fall in exports
- current account deficit
- fall in X ? fall in AD ? fall in M
- financial account
- fall in AD ? fall in r
- if r is allowed to fall ? financial account
deficit - money supply must be reduced to prevent this
happening ? this allows r to rise - rise in r makes recession worse
55FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Response to contractionary external shock
- long-run effect
- assumption fall in exports
- reduction in AD reduces inflation
- this reduces real exchange rate
- current account deficit is eliminated
- flexible prices restore internal balance too
- but the long term may be very long in coming!
56FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Effectiveness of government policies
- monetary policy
- relatively ineffective
- fiscal policy
- relatively effective
- Causes of balance of payments problems under
fixed rates - different rates of inflation
- different rates of growth
- income elasticities of demand for imports higher
than for exports - long-term structural changes
57FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Advantages of fixed exchange rates
- certainty
- no speculation (if rate is absolutely fixed)
- automatic correction of monetary errors
- prevents irresponsible government policies
58FIXED EXCHANGE RATES
- Disadvantages of fixed exchange rates
- new classical view
- make monetary policy ineffective
- anti free market
- Keynesian view
- balance of payments deficits can lead to
recession - possibility of competitive deflation
- problems of international liquidity
- inability to adjust to shocks
- speculation
59Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
- Free-floating Exchange Rates
60FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Response to shocks
- internal shocks
- purchasing-power parity theory
- limitations of theory in short run
- changes in interest rates affect financial
account - this affects current account in opposite
direction - external shocks
- changes in exchange rate help to insulate
domestic economy from such shocks - the path to long-run equilibrium
61Exchange rate path to long-run equilibrium after
a shock at time t1
Nominal exchange rate
erL
O
Time
62Exchange rate path to long-run equilibrium after
a shock at time t1
er1
Nominal exchange rate
erL
O
t1
Time
63FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Speculation
- stabilising speculation
64Stabilising speculation
S1
er1
People believe that exchange rate change is only
temporary.
Exchange rate
D1
O
Quantity of s
65FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Speculation
- stabilising speculation
- destabilising speculation
66Destabilising speculation
S1
er1
People believe that exchange rate change
indicates a trend.
Exchange rate
D1
O
Quantity of s
67FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Speculation
- stabilising speculation
- destabilising speculation
- overshooting
68FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Effectiveness of government policy
- monetary policy
- relatively effective
- direct effect on aggregate demand
- reinforced by a change in the exchange rate
- effect of speculation
- fiscal policy
- relatively ineffective
- direct effect on aggregate demand
- offset by effect on interest rates exchange rate
69FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Advantages of free-floating rates
- automatic correction
- no problem of international liquidity and
reserves - insulation from external events
- governments free to pursue domestic policy
- Disadvantages of free-floating rates
- unstable exchange rates
70Fluctuations between the euro and the dollar
71Fluctuations between the euro and the dollar
US interest rate
72Fluctuations between the euro and the dollar
US interest rate
ECB interest rate
73Fluctuations between the euro and the dollar
US interest rate
ECB interest rate
74Fluctuations between the euro and the dollar
US interest rate
/ ?
ECB interest rate
75FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Advantages of free-floating rates
- automatic correction
- no problem of international liquidity and
reserves - insulation from external events
- governments free to pursue domestic policy
- Disadvantages of free-floating rates
- unstable exchange rates
- speculation
76FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Advantages of free-floating rates
- automatic correction
- no problem of international liquidity and
reserves - insulation from external events
- governments free to pursue domestic policy
- Disadvantages of free-floating rates
- unstable exchange rates
- speculation
- uncertainty for business
77FREE-FLOATING RATES
- Advantages of free-floating rates
- automatic correction
- no problem of international liquidity and
reserves - insulation from external events
- governments free to pursue domestic policy
- Disadvantages of free-floating rates
- unstable exchange rates
- speculation
- uncertainty for business
- lack of discipline on economy
78Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
- Exchange Rate Systems in Practice
79EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- The Bretton Woods system (194373)
- the system
- role of the IMF
- correction through deflation or reflation
- correction through devaluation or revaluation
- Problems of adjustment
- disruption of devaluations
- J-curve effect of devaluation
80The J-curve effect
X - M
0
Time
81EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- The Bretton Woods system (194373)
- the system
- role of the IMF
- correction through deflation or reflation
- correction through devaluation or revaluation
- Problems of adjustment
- disruption of devaluations
- J-curve effect of devaluation
- stopgo policies
82EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- The Bretton Woods system (194373)
- the system
- role of the IMF
- correction through deflation or reflation
- correction through devaluation or revaluation
- Problems of adjustment
- disruption of devaluations
- J-curve effect of devaluation
- stopgo policies
- speculation
83EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- The Bretton Woods system (cont.)
- problems of international liquidity
- over-reliance on US dollar
- problem of US deficits and excess liquidity
- decline in confidence in the system
- the collapse of the system
84EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- Managed floating 1972 onwards
- forms of managed flexibility
- extent of intervention
- forms of intervention
- justification of managed floating
- focus on long-term equilibrium exchange rate
- adjustment is less disruptive
- Problems with managed floating
- predicting the long-term equilibrium rate
- speculative financial movements
- conflicts with internal policy
85Exchange rate indicesaverages for each period
(1995 100)
Based on data in European Economy Statistical
Annex (Commission of the European Union)
86EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
87 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
/
88 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
/
89 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
90 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
91EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736 6
92EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
93 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
94EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s
95EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
96 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
97EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
- joining and leaving the ERM
98EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
- joining and leaving the ERM
- sterling in the mid 1990s
99 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
100EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
- joining and leaving the ERM
- sterling in the mid 1990s
- recent experience
101 / exchange rate and exchange rate index
19762005
Index 1990100
/
102EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
- joining and leaving the ERM
- sterling in the mid 1990s
- recent experience
- problems of a high pound
103EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- UK experience of managed floating
- effects of first oil crisis 19736
- second oil crisis and the rise in monetarism
- effects of growing US budget and trade deficits
in the 1980s - the 1985 exchange crisis
- joining and leaving the ERM
- sterling in the mid 1990s
- recent experience
- problems of a high pound
- exchange rate effects of inflation targeting
104EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE
- The volatility of exchange rates
- causes of volatility
- money supply and inflation targets
- growth in financial movements
- abolition of exchange controls
- growth in IT
- growth in speculative activity
- growing belief that governments are powerless to
prevent speculation
105Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
- The Open Economy and ISLM Analysis
106THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
107The BP curve
r
O
Y
108The BP curve
r
BP
O
Y
109The BP curve
r
BP
O
Y
110The BP curve
r
Assume that national income rises
BP
a
r1
O
Y1
Y
111The BP curve
r
Assume that national income rises
BP
a
r1
Deficit if rate of interest remains at r1
O
Y1
Y1
Y
112The BP curve
r
BP
a
r1
O
Y1
Y1
Y
113THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- The BP curve
- Analysis under a fixed exchange rate
114THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- The BP curve
- Analysis under a fixed exchange rate
- equilibrium in the model
115ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
BP
O
Y
Full equilibrium in the goods, money and foreign
exchange markets
116THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- The BP curve
- Analysis under a fixed exchange rate
- equilibrium in the model
- movement to a new equilibrium
117THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- The BP curve
- Analysis under a fixed exchange rate
- equilibrium in the model
- movement to a new equilibrium
- effects of fiscal policy
118ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
O
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
119ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
b
r2
BP
Balance of payments surplus causes money supply
to expand
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
120ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
b
r2
BP
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
121ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
a
r1
IS1
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
122ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
BP
LM1
b
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
123ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
BP
LM1
b
r2
Balance of payments deficit causes money supply
to contract
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
124ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
BP
LM1
b
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
125THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- The BP curve
- Analysis under a fixed exchange rate
- equilibrium in the model
- movement to a new equilibrium
- effects of fiscal policy
- effects of monetary policy
126ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
BP
a
r1
IS
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
127ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP
a
r1
IS
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
128ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP
a
r1
Balance of payments deficit causes money supply
to contract again
b
r2
IS
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
129ISLMBP analysis fixed exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP
a
r1
b
r2
IS
O
Y1
Y2
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
130THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- Analysis under free-floating rates
- effects of exchange rate changes on the BP curve
131Movements in the BP curve
r
SURPLUS
O
Y
132Movements in the BP curve
r
BP
DEFICIT
O
Y
133THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- Analysis under free-floating rates
- effects of exchange rate changes on the BP curve
- achievement of equilibrium
134THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- Analysis under free-floating rates
- effects of exchange rate changes on the BP curve
- achievement of equilibrium
- effects of fiscal policy
135ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
BP
O
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
136ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM
b
BP
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
Balance of payments surplus causes the exchange
rate to appreciate
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
137ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM
b
BP
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
138ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM
b
BP1
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy
139ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM
a
r1
IS1
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
140ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
BP1
LM
b
r2
Balance of payments deficit causes exchange rate
to depreciate
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
141ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
BP1
LM
b
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
142ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
BP1
LM
b
r2
a
r1
IS2
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary fiscal policy BP curve steeper
than LM curve
143THE OPEN ECONOMY AND ISLM ANALYSIS
- Analysis under free-floating rates
- effects of exchange rate changes on the BP curve
- achievement of equilibrium
- effects of fiscal policy
- effects of monetary policy
144ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM1
BP1
a
r1
IS1
O
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
145ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP1
a
r1
The balance of payments deficit causes the BP
line to shift downward
r2
b
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
146ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP1
a
r1
r2
b
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy
147ISLMBP analysis floating exchange rates
r
LM1
LM2
BP1
a
r1
r2
b
IS1
O
Y2
Y1
Y
An expansionary monetary policy