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Session 2: Balance of Payments
Global Financial Management
Meng Gao
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Quiz: Current account transfers
•What happens to France’s BOP if
•LMVH, a French luxury goods company, buys €1.5M of
consulting services from a British subsidiary of BCG
•LMVH pays by writing a check on its € bank account at
Societè Generale in Paris, and BCG deposits the check
at Banque Paribas, also in Paris
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Quiz
•In the latter half of the 1980s, with a strong yen, Japanese firms
•
A) faced difficulty exporting.
B) could better afford to acquire U.S. assets that had become
less expensive in terms of yen.
C) financed a sharp increase in Japanese FDI in the United
States.
D) all of the options
Summary of BOP Accounting
•The BOP sub-accounts from the U.S. point of view
•Example 1 Example 2 Example 3
Debits (-) Credits (+)
Imports to the U.S. Exports from the U.S.
Payment by the U.S. of dividends and interest to foreigners Receipt by the U.S. of dividends and interest from foreigners
Capital Outflows Capital Inflows
Increase in U.S. ownership of foreign assets Increase in foreign ownership of U.S. assets
Decrease of foreign ownership of U.S. assets Decrease in U.S. ownership of foreign assets
Increase in Official reserves of the Federal Reserve Decrease of official reserves of the Federal Reserve
Decrease in dollar reserves of foreign Central Banks Increase in dollar reserves of foreign Central Banks
IA. CURRENT ACCOUNT TRADE BALANCE
IB. CURRENT ACCOUNT INVESTMENT INCOME
II. Financial ACCOUNT
III. The Official Reserves Account
Financial account transfers (Example 2)
•A Mexican resident buys $1M worth of shares of MSFT
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