International Finance: Theory & Policy, Eleventh Edition
by Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld and Marc J. Melitz
Contents:
Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13
1 Introduction 21
What Is International Economics About?……………………………………………………………………23
The Gains from Trade………………………………………………………………………………………………. 24
The Pattern of Trade………………………………………………………………………………………………… 25
How Much Trade?……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 25
Balance of Payments………………………………………………………………………………………………… 26
Exchange Rate Determination…………………………………………………………………………………… 27
International Policy Coordination………………………………………………………………………………. 27
The International Capital Market……………………………………………………………………………….. 28
International Economics: Trade and Money………………………………………………………………..29
Part 1 Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics 31
2 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments 31
The National Income Accounts…………………………………………………………………………………33
National Product and National Income……………………………………………………………………….. 34
Capital Depreciation and International Transfers………………………………………………………….. 35
Gross Domestic Product…………………………………………………………………………………………… 35
National Income Accounting for an Open Economy………………………………………………………36
Consumption………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 36
Investment………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 36
Government Purchases……………………………………………………………………………………………… 37
The National Income Identity for an Open Economy……………………………………………………. 37
An Imaginary Open Economy……………………………………………………………………………………. 38
The Current Account and Foreign Indebtedness…………………………………………………………… 38
Saving and the Current Account………………………………………………………………………………… 40
Private and Government Saving…………………………………………………………………………………. 41
box: The Mystery of the Missing Deficit…………………………………………………………………….42
The Balance of Payments Accounts……………………………………………………………………………44
Examples of Paired Transactions……………………………………………………………………………….. 45
The Fundamental Balance of Payments Identity…………………………………………………………… 46
The Current Account, Once Again……………………………………………………………………………… 47
The Capital Account………………………………………………………………………………………………… 48
The Financial Account……………………………………………………………………………………………… 48
Statistical Discrepancy……………………………………………………………………………………………… 49
Official Reserve Transactions…………………………………………………………………………………….. 50
case study: The Assets and Liabilities of the World’s Biggest Debtor……………………………….51
Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………55
3 Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market:
An Asset Approach 60
Exchange Rates and International Transactions…………………………………………………………..61
Domestic and Foreign Prices……………………………………………………………………………………… 61
Exchange Rates and Relative Prices…………………………………………………………………………….. 63
The Foreign Exchange Market………………………………………………………………………………….64
The Actors……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 64
box: Exchange Rates, Auto Prices, and Currency Wars…………………………………………………65
Characteristics of the Market…………………………………………………………………………………….. 66
Spot Rates and Forward Rates…………………………………………………………………………………… 68
Foreign Exchange Swaps…………………………………………………………………………………………… 69
Futures and Options………………………………………………………………………………………………… 69
The Demand for Foreign Currency Assets……………………………………………………………………70
Assets and Asset Returns………………………………………………………………………………………….. 70
box: Offshore Currency Markets: The Case of the Chinese Yuan……………………………………71
Risk and Liquidity…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 73
Interest Rates………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 74
Exchange Rates and Asset Returns…………………………………………………………………………….. 74
A Simple Rule…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 76
Return, Risk, and Liquidity in the Foreign Exchange Market…………………………………………. 77
Equilibrium in the Foreign Exchange Market………………………………………………………………78
Interest Parity: The Basic Equilibrium Condition…………………………………………………………. 78
How Changes in the Current Exchange Rate Affect Expected Returns…………………………….. 79
The Equilibrium Exchange Rate………………………………………………………………………………… 81
Interest Rates, Expectations, and Equilibrium………………………………………………………………. 83
The Effect of Changing Interest Rates on the Current Exchange Rate……………………………… 83
The Effect of Changing Expectations on the Current Exchange Rate………………………………. 85
case study: What Explains the Carry Trade?……………………………………………………………….85
Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………88
4 Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates 96
Money Defined: A Brief Review………………………………………………………………………………..97
Money as a Medium of Exchange………………………………………………………………………………. 97
Money as a Unit of Account……………………………………………………………………………………… 97
Money as a Store of Value………………………………………………………………………………………… 98
What Is Money?………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 98
How the Money Supply Is Determined……………………………………………………………………….. 98
The Demand for Money by Individuals……………………………………………………………………….99
Expected Return………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 99
Risk……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 100
Liquidity………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 100
Aggregate Money Demand…………………………………………………………………………………….. 100
The Equilibrium Interest Rate: The Interaction of Money Supply and Demand……………….. 102
Equilibrium in the Money Market……………………………………………………………………………. 103
Interest Rates and the Money Supply………………………………………………………………………… 104
Output and the Interest Rate……………………………………………………………………………………. 105
The Money Supply and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run……………………………………….. 106
Linking Money, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate……………………………………………. 106
U.S. Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate……………………………………………… 109
Europe’s Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate……………………………………….. 109
Money, the Price Level, and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run………………………………….. 112
Money and Money Prices………………………………………………………………………………………… 112
The Long-Run Effects of Money Supply Changes………………………………………………………. 113
Empirical Evidence on Money Supplies and Price Levels……………………………………………… 114
Money and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run…………………………………………………………. 115
Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics……………………………………………………………………. 116
Short-Run Price Rigidity versus Long-Run Price Flexibility…………………………………………. 116
box: Money Supply Growth and Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe………………………………………. 118
Permanent Money Supply Changes and the Exchange Rate………………………………………….. 120
Exchange Rate Overshooting…………………………………………………………………………………… 123
case study: Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate in Emerging Countries…………………….. 123
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 126
5 Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 131
The Law of One Price…………………………………………………………………………………………… 132
Purchasing Power Parity……………………………………………………………………………………….. 133
The Relationship between PPP and the Law of One Price…………………………………………….. 133
Absolute PPP and Relative PPP……………………………………………………………………………….. 134
A Long-Run Exchange Rate Model Based on PPP…………………………………………………….. 135
The Fundamental Equation of the Monetary Approach………………………………………………. 135
Ongoing Inflation, Interest Parity, and PPP……………………………………………………………….. 137
The Fisher Effect……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 138
Empirical Evidence on PPP and the Law of One Price……………………………………………….. 141
Explaining the Problems with PPP…………………………………………………………………………. 143
Trade Barriers and Nontradables……………………………………………………………………………… 143
Departures from Free Competition…………………………………………………………………………… 144
Differences in Consumption Patterns and Price Level Measurement………………………………. 145
box: Measuring and Comparing Countries’ Wealth Worldwide:
the International Comparison Program (ICP)……………………………………………………….. 145
PPP in the Short Run and in the Long Run………………………………………………………………… 148
case study: Why Price Levels Are Lower in Poorer Countries………………………………………. 149
Beyond Purchasing Power Parity: A General Model of Long-Run Exchange Rates………….. 151
The Real Exchange Rate………………………………………………………………………………………….. 151
Demand, Supply, and the Long-Run Real Exchange Rate…………………………………………….. 153
box: Sticky Prices and the Law of the Price: Evidence from Scandinavian Duty-Free Shops……. 154
Nominal and Real Exchange Rates in Long-Run Equilibrium………………………………………. 156
International Interest Rate Differences and the Real Exchange Rate…………………………….. 158
Real Interest Parity………………………………………………………………………………………………. 159
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 161
6 Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run 169
Determinants of Aggregate Demand in an Open Economy………………………………………….. 170
Determinants of Consumption Demand……………………………………………………………………. 170
Determinants of the Current Account………………………………………………………………………. 171
How Real Exchange Rate Changes Affect the Current Account…………………………………….. 172
How Disposable Income Changes Affect the Current Account……………………………………… 173
The Equation of Aggregate Demand……………………………………………………………………….. 173
The Real Exchange Rate and Aggregate Demand……………………………………………………….. 173
Real Income and Aggregate Demand………………………………………………………………………… 174
How Output Is Determined in the Short Run…………………………………………………………….. 175
Output Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The DD Schedule………………………………….. 176
Output, the Exchange Rate, and Output Market Equilibrium……………………………………….. 176
Deriving the DD Schedule……………………………………………………………………………………….. 177
Factors That Shift the DD Schedule………………………………………………………………………….. 178
Asset Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The AA Schedule…………………………………….. 181
Output, the Exchange Rate, and Asset Market Equilibrium………………………………………….. 181
Deriving the AA Schedule……………………………………………………………………………………….. 183
Factors That Shift the AA Schedule………………………………………………………………………….. 183
Short-Run Equilibrium for an Open Economy: Putting the DD and AA
Schedules Together…………………………………………………………………………………………… 184
Temporary Changes in Monetary and Fiscal Policy……………………………………………………. 186
Monetary Policy…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 187
Fiscal Policy………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 187
Policies to Maintain Full Employment………………………………………………………………………. 188
Inflation Bias and Other Problems of Policy Formulation……………………………………………. 190
Permanent Shifts in Monetary and Fiscal Policy……………………………………………………….. 191
A Permanent Increase in the Money Supply………………………………………………………………. 191
Adjustment to a Permanent Increase in the Money Supply…………………………………………… 192
A Permanent Fiscal Expansion………………………………………………………………………………… 194
Macroeconomic Policies and the Current Account……………………………………………………… 195
Gradual Trade Flow Adjustment and Current Account Dynamics…………………………………. 197
The J-Curve………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 197
Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Inflation……………………………………………………………….. 198
The Current Account, Wealth, and Exchange Rate Dynamics………………………………………. 199
box: Understanding Pass-Through to Import and Export Prices…………………………………… 200
The Liquidity Trap……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 201
case study: How Big Is the Government Spending Multiplier?………………………………………. 204
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 206
7 Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention 216
Why Study Fixed Exchange Rates?…………………………………………………………………………. 217
Central Bank Intervention and the Money Supply………………………………………………………. 218
The Central Bank Balance Sheet and the Money Supply………………………………………………. 218
Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Money Supply………………………………………………… 220
Sterilization…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 221
The Balance of Payments and the Money Supply……………………………………………………….. 221
How the Central Bank Fixes the Exchange Rate………………………………………………………… 222
Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate……………………………. 223
Money Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate…………………………………………… 223
A Diagrammatic Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………….. 224
Stabilization Policies with a Fixed Exchange Rate……………………………………………………… 225
Monetary Policy…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 226
Fiscal Policy………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 227
Changes in the Exchange Rate…………………………………………………………………………………. 228
Adjustment to Fiscal Policy and Exchange Rate Changes…………………………………………….. 229
Balance of Payments Crises and Capital Flight…………………………………………………………. 230
Managed Floating and Sterilized Intervention…………………………………………………………… 233
Perfect Asset Substitutability and the Ineffectiveness of Sterilized Intervention……………….. 233
case study: Can Markets Attack a Strong Currency? The Case of Switzerland……………….. 234
Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under Imperfect Asset Substitutability……………….. 237
The Effects of Sterilized Intervention with Imperfect Asset Substitutability……………………. 237
Evidence on the Effects of Sterilized Intervention……………………………………………………….. 239
Reserve Currencies in the World Monetary System…………………………………………………….. 240
The Mechanics of a Reserve Currency Standard…………………………………………………………. 240
The Asymmetric Position of the Reserve Center…………………………………………………………. 241
The Gold Standard……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 242
The Mechanics of a Gold Standard………………………………………………………………………….. 242
Symmetric Monetary Adjustment under a Gold Standard……………………………………………. 242
Benefits and Drawbacks of the Gold Standard…………………………………………………………… 243
The Bimetallic Standard………………………………………………………………………………………….. 244
The Gold Exchange Standard………………………………………………………………………………….. 244
case study: The Cost to Become an International Currency: The Renminbi Case……………… 245
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 248
Part 2 International Macroeconomic Policy 261
8 International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview 261
Macroeconomic Policy Goals in an Open Economy……………………………………………………. 262
Internal Balance: Full Employment and Price Level Stability………………………………………… 263
External Balance: The Optimal Level of the Current Account………………………………………. 264
box: Can a Country Borrow Forever? The Case of New Zealand………………………………….. 266
Classifying Monetary Systems: The Open-Economy Monetary Trilemma……………………… 270
International Macroeconomic Policy under the Gold Standard, 1870–1914…………………….. 271
Origins of the Gold Standard…………………………………………………………………………………… 272
External Balance under the Gold Standard………………………………………………………………… 272
The Price-Specie-Flow Mechanism…………………………………………………………………………… 273
The Gold Standard “Rules of the Game”: Myth and Reality………………………………………… 274
Internal Balance under the Gold Standard…………………………………………………………………. 274
case study: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes: Conflict
over America’s Monetary Standard during the 1890s……………………………………………… 275
The Interwar Years, 1918–1939………………………………………………………………………………. 277
The Fleeting Return to Gold……………………………………………………………………………………. 277
International Economic Disintegration……………………………………………………………………… 278
case study: The International Gold Standard and the Great Depression…………………………. 279
The Bretton Woods System and the International Monetary Fund………………………………… 280
Goals and Structure of the IMF……………………………………………………………………………….. 280
Convertibility and the Expansion of Private Financial Flows……………………………………….. 281
Speculative Capital Flows and Crises………………………………………………………………………… 282
Analyzing Policy Options for Reaching Internal and External Balance………………………….. 283
Maintaining Internal Balance…………………………………………………………………………………… 284
Maintaining External Balance………………………………………………………………………………….. 285
Expenditure-Changing and Expenditure-Switching Policies………………………………………….. 286
The External Balance Problem of the United States
under Bretton Woods………………………………………………………………………………………… 287
case study: The End of Bretton Woods, Worldwide Inflation, and the
Transition to Floating Rates………………………………………………………………………………. 288
The Mechanics of Imported Inflation……………………………………………………………………….. 290
Assessment……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 291
The Case for Floating Exchange Rates…………………………………………………………………….. 292
Monetary Policy Autonomy…………………………………………………………………………………….. 292
Symmetry……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 293
Exchange Rates as Automatic Stabilizers…………………………………………………………………… 294
Exchange Rates and External Balance……………………………………………………………………….. 296
case study: The First Years of Floating Rates, 1973–1990…………………………………………… 296
Macroeconomic Interdependence under a Floating Rate………………………………………….. 301
case study: Transformation and Crisis in the World Economy………………………………………. 302
case study: The Dangers of Deflation………………………………………………………………………. 308
What Has Been Learned Since 1973?………………………………………………………………………. 310
Monetary Policy Autonomy…………………………………………………………………………………….. 310
Symmetry……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 312
The Exchange Rate as an Automatic Stabilizer…………………………………………………………… 312
External Balance……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 313
The Problem of Policy Coordination…………………………………………………………………………. 313
Are Fixed Exchange Rates Even an Option for Most Countries?…………………………………… 314
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 315
9 Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis 324
The International Capital Market and the Gains from Trade……………………………………….. 325
Three Types of Gain from Trade………………………………………………………………………………. 325
Risk Aversion………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 327
Portfolio Diversification as a Motive for International Asset Trade……………………………….. 327
The Menu of International Assets: Debt versus Equity………………………………………………… 328
International Banking and the International Capital Market……………………………………….. 329
The Structure of the International Capital Market………………………………………………………. 329
Offshore Banking and Offshore Currency Trading………………………………………………………. 330
The Shadow Banking System…………………………………………………………………………………… 331
Banking and Financial Fragility……………………………………………………………………………… 332
The Problem of Bank Failure…………………………………………………………………………………… 332
Government Safeguards against Financial Instability………………………………………………….. 335
Moral Hazard and the Problem of “Too Big to Fail”…………………………………………………… 337
box: Does the IMF Cause Moral Hazard?………………………………………………………………… 338
The Challenge of Regulating International Banking…………………………………………………… 339
The Financial Trilemma………………………………………………………………………………………….. 340
International Regulatory Cooperation through 2007……………………………………………………. 341
case study: The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009………………………………………………… 343
box: Foreign Exchange Instability and Central Bank Swap Lines…………………………………. 346
International Regulatory Initiatives after the Global Financial Crisis…………………………….. 348
How Well Have International Financial Markets Allocated
Capital and Risk?…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 350
The Extent of International Portfolio Diversification…………………………………………………… 350
The Extent of Intertemporal Trade…………………………………………………………………………… 352
Onshore-Offshore Interest Differentials…………………………………………………………………….. 353
The Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market…………………………………………………………. 354
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 358
10 Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro 363
How the European Single Currency Evolved……………………………………………………………… 365
What Has Driven European Monetary Cooperation?………………………………………………….. 365
box: Brexit…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 366
The European Monetary System, 1979–1998……………………………………………………………… 368
German Monetary Dominance and the Credibility Theory of the EMS…………………………. 369
Market Integration Initiatives………………………………………………………………………………….. 371
European Economic and Monetary Union………………………………………………………………… 371
The Euro and Economic Policy in the Euro Zone……………………………………………………….. 372
The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact……………………….. 373
The European Central Bank and the Eurosystem………………………………………………………… 374
The Revised Exchange Rate Mechanism……………………………………………………………………. 374
The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas…………………………………………………………………. 375
Economic Integration and the Benefits of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area:
The GG Schedule……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 375
Economic Integration and the Costs of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area:
The LL Schedule……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 377
The Decision to Join a Currency Area:
Putting the GG and LL Schedules Together……………………………………………………………. 380
What Is an Optimum Currency Area?……………………………………………………………………….. 381
Other Important Considerations………………………………………………………………………………. 381
case study: Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area?……………………………………………………. 383
The Euro Crisis and the Future of EMU………………………………………………………………….. 386
Origins of the Crisis……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 386
Self-Fulfilling Government Default and the “Doom Loop”………………………………………….. 392
A Broader Crisis and Policy Responses……………………………………………………………………… 394
ECB Outright Monetary Transactions………………………………………………………………………. 395
The Future of EMU……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 396
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 397
11 Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform 402
Income, Wealth, and Growth in the World Economy…………………………………………………… 403
The Gap between Rich and Poor………………………………………………………………………………. 403
Has the World Income Gap Narrowed Over Time?……………………………………………………… 404
The Importance of Developing Countries for Global Growth……………………………………….. 406
Structural Features of Developing Countries…………………………………………………………….. 407
box: The Commodity Supercycle…………………………………………………………………………….. 409
Developing-Country Borrowing and Debt…………………………………………………………………. 412
The Economics of Financial Inflows to Developing Countries……………………………………… 413
The Problem of Default………………………………………………………………………………………….. 414
Alternative Forms of Financial Inflow………………………………………………………………………. 416
The Problem of “Original Sin”…………………………………………………………………………………. 417
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s……………………………………………………………………………………. 419
Reforms, Capital Inflows, and the Return of Crisis……………………………………………………… 420
East Asia: Success and Crisis…………………………………………………………………………………. 423
The East Asian Economic Miracle……………………………………………………………………………. 424
box: Why Have Developing Countries Accumulated Such High Levels
of International Reserves?…………………………………………………………………………………. 424
Asian Weaknesses…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 426
box: What Did East Asia Do Right?………………………………………………………………………… 428
The Asian Financial Crisis………………………………………………………………………………………. 429
Lessons of Developing-Country Crises…………………………………………………………………….. 430
Reforming the World’s Financial “Architecture”………………………………………………………… 431
Capital Mobility and the Trilemma of the Exchange Rate Regime…………………………………. 432
“Prophylactic” Measures…………………………………………………………………………………………. 434
Coping with Crisis………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 435
Understanding Global Capital Flows and the Global Distribution of Income:
Is Geography Destiny?………………………………………………………………………………………. 436
box: Capital Paradoxes…………………………………………………………………………………………. 437
Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 441
Mathematical Postscript 446
Postscript to Chapter 9: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification…………… 446
An Analytical Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio………………………………………. 446
A Diagrammatic Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio………………………………….. 447
The Effects of Changing Rates of Return………………………………………………………………….. 449
Index 453
Credits 465
Appendix A to Chapter 6: The IS-LM Model and the DD-AA Model
Appendix A to Chapter 7: The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments