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Balance of Payments Practice Questions
The balance of payments is an accounting identity, which says that capital _______ from one country must equal capital ________ to another country.
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a. depreciation; appreciation
b. investments; investments
c. outflows; inflows
d. assets; liabilities
Which of the following is something a country does with the dollars they get from selling products to the US:
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a. buy US treasury bills
b. invest in US companies
c. buy US goods and services
d. all of the above
Foreign investment entails __________ change in the capital account of the country making the investment.
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a. a negative
b. a positive
c. no
d. an uncertain
A current account deficit merely means that, as a country, we __________ more than we ___________.
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a. produce; consume
b. import; export
c. export; import
d. contract; expand
We are in a capital account _____________ when more capital flows into the country than flows out of the country.
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a. deficit
b) surplus
c) sterilization
d) control
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Introduction to International Trade and Finance
Balance of Payments
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Purchasing Power Parity
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David Hume on the Balance of Trade
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Isaac Gervaise
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Exchange Rates
Real Exchange Rates
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Real and Nominal Exchange Rates
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Are Devaluations Contractionary?
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Forward Exchange Rates
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Covered Interest Parity
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Uncovered Interest Parity and the Carry Trade
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Speculative Attacks
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The “Peso Problem”
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Long Swings in Exchange Rates
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Swiss Franc Peg
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Bela Balassa
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Gold Exchange Standard
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Borrowing in Your Own Currency
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The Euro Crisis
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The Case for Optimism
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The Case for Pessimism
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European Central Bank
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The Bailout Funds
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Why are high bond yields a problem?
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The Italian Crisis of 2013
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The costs of leaving the Eurozone
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Remarks on individual countries
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Currency union collapse in history
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Indicators for Eurozone progress
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Life on the precipice
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Will austerity work?
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Effects on other multilateral agreements
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Optimum currency areas
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Optimum currency areas and the Euro
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Why is the Euro so bland?
Tyler Cowen lecture at the Bruno Leoni Institute (Optional)
Understanding the Eurocrisis (Optional)
Iceland: Causes of the Crisis
Iceland: Collapse
International Trade Overview
Trade Imbalances
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Dark Matter
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The “Dutch Disease”
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Introduction to Mercantilism
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Home Bias
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Adam Smith on Mercantile Systems
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Adam Smith on Mercantile Conclusions
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Crises and Responses to Them
Asian Financial Crisis of 1997
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Mexico and the 2008 Financial Crisis
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