2. 3.) Balance between Accounts
Balance of Payments:
1.) Some Vocabulary
2.) The Accounts
4.) Balance between Countries
5.) States of Equilibrium
PPT 2
6.) Problems with Deficit/Surplus
7.) Disequilibrium
3. Capital account
Financial account
Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
Current account
Balance of Payments
This double booking
accounting that is done here
is an ‘Accounting Identity’
4. Accounting Identity会计等式
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
0
- By definition this is
supposed to be true.
- Add up the amount of
each side and the total
should be zero.
- A positive number on the current account side should be
balanced by a negative number on the cap/financial accounts side.
5. Balance of Payments
If the money is spend only in China and
never leaves China, then nothing is counted
in BOP. But if the money leaves or enters
the country then it is counted in the BOP
somehow. The point of this is to understand
and follow where the money is going.
6. RMB can only be spent in
China…
Balance of Payments
If it leaves China it has to come
back to China in some way…
All the money that leaves the country has
to come back into that country someway
because it can only be spent in that
country!
7. RMB can only be spent in
China…
Balance of Payments
If it leaves China it has to come
back to China in some way…
So the accounts have to
balance to zero somehow!
Accounting Identity会计等式
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
0
- All the money leaving the
country should be balanced by
all the money entering the
country.
8. If America sells something to
China for 2RMB then China will
have to pay using Chinese RMB.
Balance of Payments
Even if you transferred money
into the bank first the same
result eventually happens,
- stuff goes to one country,
- money goes to the other.
9. China has now lost
money from buying an
import so it’s counted in
the current account so it’s
in deficit.
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
Current account = -2
10. If America was to buy an export
from China for the same amount
then everything balances back
out.
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
Current account = 0
11. But if instead America buys
something for only 1RMB than
the NET effect is that the current
account is still in deficit.
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
Current account = - 1
12. So America has 2 RMB that can
ONLY be spent in China…
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
It can buy something from China to bring
back t America or just gift the money back…
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
Or it can buy something that stays in China
but belongs to the American buyer…
Direct Investment
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Portfolio Investment
13. America can buy a factory or
some other building in China
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
All accounts = 0
Current account = -2 Financial account = +2
Ownership
Of the
factory
14. The RMB can only be spent
in China…
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
China’s BOP
All accounts = 0
Current account = -2 Financial account = +2
Ownership
Of the
factory
It has to come back to
China in some way…
So the accounts have to
balance to zero somehow!
15. RMB can only be spent in
China…
Balance of Payments
If it leaves China it has to come
back to China in some way…
So the accounts have to
balance to zero somehow!
Accounting Identity会计等式
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
0
- All the money leaving the
country should be balanced by
all the money entering the
country.
Remember…
16. Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
Current account
Balance of Payments
If the net total of side
of the BOP is negative it
is said to have a trade
deficit.
If the net total of side
of the BOP is positive it
is said to have a trade
surplus.
17. Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
Current account
Balance of Payments
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Amount
of exports
China’s current account
America’s current account
18. Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Current account
Balance of Payments
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
Notice that every thing is
the opposite for this
side…
If you have a surplus on the
current account side, (+ #) then
the money has to come back in
the cap/financial side (- #) so it
all balances out.
19. Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Current account
Balance of Payments
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
Trade deficit
Amount
of exports
Trade surplus
China’s cap/finacial account
America’s cap/finanical account
20. Capital account
Financial account
Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
Current account
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
Balance of Payments
21. Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
If current account is < 0 Capital/Financial account is > 0
If current account is > 0 Capital/Financial account is < 0
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
22. 3.) Balance between Accounts
Balance of Payments:
1.) Some Vocabulary
2.) The Accounts
4.) Balance between Countries
5.) States of Equilibrium
6.) Problems with Deficit/Surplus
7.) Disequilibrium
23. To start we will look at the BOP using two
example countries though all these following
slides…
Balance of Payments
Country A Country B
When you trade between countries a credit
or debit must be recorded in both countries
BOP at the same time.
24. Country A Country B
BOP is counting all the ways that
money goes from inside and outside a
country.
But the people in these countries
buy things form each other.
Balance of Payments
All the people in this
country are ugly and
use Dollars.
All the people in this
country smell funny
and use RMB.
25. Did the money cross
this line and leave the
country?
If it did you count it in
BOP but depending on
how it crosses and what
you use the money for it
gets counted in different
accounts?
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
26. Mr. Blue has a
motorcycle for
sale in his
country.
Mr. Red wants to
buy it and bring it to
his country so he
pays for it.
So they exchange
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
27. This is a trade in goods
Current accountCurrent account
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
28. Mr. Blue doesn’t want this
money since it is not dollars
so he gives it to his bank.
Nothing is counted
in BOP since the
money never moved
between countries.
Nothing crossed the
line.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
29. The bank doesn’t want the money either since it
is in the country A economy and this money can
only be spent in the country B economy.
So the bank may invest the
money somehow…
So for example the bank buys a
government bond in the country
B economy because it can earn
interest on it.
BOND
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
32. Financial accountFinancial account
Current accountCurrent account
Not so hard right?
This is just an
example, it
doesn’t always
have to be this
way but this is a
common way.
BOND
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
33. Now of course most of
the time Mr. Blue will not
ever accept RMB for his
motorcycle.
Mr. Red knows this so
he first have to go to a
bank to exchange
money.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
34. He will either exchange it
with a bank in country A’s
country for dollars….
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
35. and buy the bike…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
He will either exchange it
with a bank in country A’s
country for dollars….
36. Or exchange it
with his own bank
to get dollars…
and buys the bike.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
37. The country B bank now needs
more dollars for next time so
then the banks exchange the
money they used.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
38. Either way it’s the same thing,
you count the money once it
crossed the line.
and something was sold
in one country to
another.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
39. Here is another example…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
40. Mr. Blue has a hotel
for sale in his
country.
Mr. Red wants to buy
this hotel because he
thinks it will be a good
investment.
Ownership
of the hotel
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
So they exchange…
41. Ownership
of the hotel
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Mr. Red in
country B owns
the hotel but it
stays in
country A.
42. Country A has lost
an asset but has the
money.
Country B has gained
an asset but lost the
money.
Financial accountFinancial account
Remember we are
counting where the
money is flowing.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
44. Now lets say that the
hotel has made a
nice profit…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
45. Now Mr. Red spends
some of this money to
buy a cheese burger in a
restaurant in country A.
好吃
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
46. Nothing is counted
on BOP.
Nothing crossed this
line.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
47. Now lets say that Mr.
Red decides to take his
profits and go back to
country B.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
48. This is counted in
the Income Account
part of the Current
Account.
Current accountCurrent account
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
49. Now let’s step back
for a minute and
look again at this
hotel investment…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
50. Mr. Blue sold the
hotel to a foreigner.
Mr. Red owns the hotel
completely even
though he is from a
different country.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
51. Country A has lost
an asset but gained
some money.
Country B has gained
an asset from another
country.
Financial accountFinancial account
Got it right?
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
52. This goes into the Direct Investment
part of the Financial Account.
Direct InvestmentDirect Investment Country B owns something in
country A. This can be good for
both sides. Country A has money
invested into growing the economy
of its country and country B has a
good place to make some money.
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
53. Direct Investment is good!
This is investment that will stay in the
country and is invested for the long run!
Direct Investment is bad!
That means things in your country are
owned by ugly stinky foreign devils!
重要
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
Important to
both of these
arguments
sides.
54. Now change this just
a little bit…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
55. Mr. Blue does NOT sell the
hotel to Mr. Red but instead
sells him a bond with a
promise to pay interest.
Mr. Red likes the country
A economy and wants to
invest in it but doesn’t
want to manage a hotel.
BOND
with 5%
interest
Mr. Red gets a bond…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Ownership
of the hotel
56. This goes into the Portfolio
Investment part of the Financial
Account.
Portfolio InvestmentPortfolio Investment
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
BOND
with 5%
interest
Ownership
of the hotel
57. Portfolio Investment is good!
Foreigners like your country and are giving you
money to grow your economy!
Portfolio Investment is bad!
In is only short run investment. That means if the economy
in your country look bad, investors get scared and leave with
all their money and actually can make the economy worse
off!
重要
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
BOND
with 5%
interest
Ownership
of the hotel
Important to
both of these
arguments
sides.
58. Remember this
Bond will earn
interest that Mr.
Blue will pay to
Mr. Red.
Remember how
to count it if that
money crosses
this line…
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
BOND
with 5%
interest
Ownership
of the hotel
59. I hope that is clear.
Thank you guys for your help and
enjoy your motorcycle Mr. Red!
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
61. Balance of Payments:
1.) Some Vocabulary
2.) The Accounts
3.) Balance between Accounts
4.) Balance between Countries
5.) States of Equilibrium
6.) Problems with Deficit/Surplus
7.) Disequilibrium
62. Accounting Identity会计等式
Balance of Payments
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
0
- By definition this is
supposed to be true.
- Add up the amount of
each side and the total
should be zero.
- A positive number on the current account side should be
balanced by a negative number on the cap/financial accounts side.
63. RMB can only be spent in
China…
Balance of Payments
If it leaves China it has to come
back to China in some way…
So the accounts have to
balance to zero somehow!
Accounting Identity会计等式
Current account
Capital account
Financial account
0
- All the money leaving the
country should be balanced by
all the money entering the
country.
64. Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
Current account
Balance of Payments
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Amount
of exports
China’s current account
America’s current account
65. Capital account
Financial account
Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
Current account
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
If NET total is negative = Trade Deficit
If NET total is positive = Trade Surplus
Balance of Payments
66. 3.) Balance between Accounts
Balance of Payments:
1.) Some Vocabulary
2.) The Accounts
4.) Balance between Countries
5.) States of Equilibrium
6.) Problems with Deficit/Surplus
7.) Disequilibrium
67. Balance of Payments
Country A Country B
When you trade between countries a credit
or debit must be recorded in both countries
BOP at the same time.
68. Did the money cross
this line and leave the
country?
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
If so it must be counted
on both sides.
69. Financial account
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
Portfolio Investment
Direct Investment
Current account
Balance of Payments
If NET total is negative = Trade Surplus
If NET total is positive = Trade Deficit
Trade deficit
Amount
of exports
Trade surplus
China’s cap/finacial account
America’s cap/finanical account
70. Ownership
Of the hotel
Direct Investment is good!
This is investment that will stay in the
country and is invested for the long run!
Direct Investment is bad!
That means things in your country are
owned by ugly stinky foreign devils!
重要
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Important to
both of these
arguments
sides.
71. Ownership
Of the hotel
BOND
with 5%
interest
Portfolio Investment is good!
Foreigners like your country and are giving you
money to grow your economy!
Portfolio Investment is bad!
In is only short run investment. That means if the economy
in your country look bad, investors get scared and leave with
all their money and actually can make the economy worse
off!
重要
Country A Country B
Balance of Payments
Important to
both of these
arguments
sides.
73. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
Chinese company buys
wine from a French
company.
Debit to China’s goods part of current account
Credit to France’s goods part of current account.
74. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
Chinese resident
purchases a bond from
an Italy company.
Debit to China’s portfolio part of financial account.
Credit to Italy’s portfolio part of financial account.
75. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
Chinese parents pay
for their daughter to
study at an American
university.
Credit to America’s services in current account.
Debit to China’s services in current account.
Actually in the U.S. this might even count under transfers,
remember some countries do it a little different then others.
76. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account America university
gives a tuition grant
to a sophomore
foreign student from
China.
If the student is already in America no entry will
appear in the balance of payments because payment is
within America.
77. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account Brazilian company
imports Japanese
video games, paying
with euros from a
Brazilian bank.
Debit to the goods part of Brazil’s current account.
Credit to the goods part of Japan’s current account.
78. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account The Japanese video
game seller deposits
half the proceeds of
its sale in a Brazilian
bank.
Debit to the income part of Japan’s current account.
Credit to the income part of the Brazilian’s current
account.
79. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account The Japanese video
game seller buys a
house in Brazil.
Debit to the non-financial assets part of Japan’s capital
account.
Credit to the non-financial assets part of the Brazilian’s
capital account.
80. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account A British person owns
a factor in Singapore
and brings his money
with him back home
to the UK.
Debit to the income part of the Singapore’s current account.
Credit to the income part of the UK’s current account.
81. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account UK resident gets a job
working in Singapore
and is paid in
Singapore dollars
money assuming the
money is spend in the
UK.
Debit to the current transfers part of the Singapore’s current account.
Credit to the current transfers part of the UK’s current account.
82. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account American resident
buys drugs可卡因
from a
Cuban drug lord.毒枭
Nothing is counted, this is illegal.
83. Balance of Payments
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account
How is this counted for both countries?
Current
account
Cap/ Financial
account German bank
forgives $5000 in debt
owed to it by the
government of France.
Debit to the financial account of the Germany.
Credit to the financial account of the Germany.
Forgiving the debt is saying you don’t have to pay back the
money you owed, it’s like the money just disappeared.
84. Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Deficit
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Surplus
Financial account
Financial assets
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Surplus
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Deficit
So Wait! I didn’t
explain a very
important thing that is
apart of this!
Balance of Payments
Current account Capital account
Financial account
85. Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Deficit
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Surplus
Financial account
Financial assets
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Surplus
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Deficit
This part
Balance of Payments
Current account Capital account
Financial account
86. Current account
Income
Current Transfers
Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Deficit
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Surplus
Capital account
Financial account
Financial account
Financial assets
Off-sets
Non – Financial assets
Fixed assets
Capital account
Official Reserves
If (NET ) total is negative =
Trade Surplus
If (NET ) total is positive =
Trade Deficit
For now I will tell you that
governments hold other
money from other countries
all the time, either for saving
or for use if people need to
exchange money. This will be
important when dealing with
exchange rates. But I think I
will get into that later…
Balance of Payments