International Economics: Theory and Policy

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For courses in international economics, international finance, and international trade. A balanced, global approach to economic theory and policy applications International Economics: Theory and Policy provides engaging, balanced coverage of the key concepts and practical applications of theory and policy around the world. Divided into two halves, with the first devoted to trade and the second to monetary questions, the text provides an intuitive introduction to theory and events as well as detailed coverage of the actual policies put into place as a response. In the 12th Edition, important economic developments are highlighted, with many lessons drawn from the recent COVID-19 pandemic experience. Using examples like these, the text equips students with the intellectual tools for understanding the changing world economy and economic implications of global interdependence. Cover Title Page Copyright Brief Contents Contents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction What Is International Economics About? The Gains from Trade The Pattern of Trade How Much Trade? Balance of Payments Exchange Rate Determination International Policy Coordination The International Capital Market International Economics: Trade and Money Part 1: International Trade Theory Chapter 2. World Trade: An Overview Who Trades with Whom? Size Matters: The Gravity Model Using the Gravity Model: Looking for Anomalies Impediments to Trade: Distance, Barriers, and Borders The Changing Pattern of World Trade Has the World Gotten Smaller? What Do We Trade? Service Offshoring Do Old Rules Still Apply? Summary Chapter 3. Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model The Concept of Comparative Advantage A One-Factor Economy Production Possibilities Relative Prices and Supply Trade in a One-Factor World Determining the Relative Price after Trade Box: Comparative Advantage in Practice: The Case of Usain Bolt The Gains from Trade A Note on Relative Wages Box: Economic Isolation and Autarky Over Time and Over Space Misconceptions about Comparative Advantage Productivity and Competitiveness Box: Do Wages Reflect Productivity? The Pauper Labor Argument Exploitation Comparative Advantage with Many Goods Setting Up the Model Relative Wages and Specialization Determining the Relative Wage in the Multigood Model Adding Transport Costs and Nontraded Goods Empirical Evidence on the Ricardian Model Summary Chapter 4. Specific Factors and Income Distribution The Specific Factors Model Box: What is a Specific Factor? Assumptions of the Model Production Possibilities Prices, Wages, and Labor Allocation Relative Prices and the Distribution of Income International Trade in the Specific Factors Model Income Distribution and the Gains from Trade The Political Economy of Trade: A Preliminary View The Politics of Trade Protection Trade and Unemployment Case Study: U.S. Manufacturing Employment and Chinese Import Competition Box: The Trump Trade War International Labor Mobility Case Study: Wage and Social Benefits Convergence: Migrant Mobility in China Case Study: Immigration and the U.S. Economy Summary Appendix to Chapter 4: Further Details on Specific Factors Marginal and Total Product Relative Prices and the Distribution of Income Chapter 5. Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Model of a Two-Factor Economy Prices and Production Choosing the Mix of Inputs Factor Prices and Goods Prices Resources and Output Effects of International Trade between Two-Factor Economies Relative Prices and the Pattern of Trade Trade and the Distribution of Income Case Study: North-South Trade and Income Inequality Skill-Biased Technological Change and Income Inequality Box: The Declining Labor Share of Income and Capital-Skill Complementarity Factor-Price Equalization Empirical Evidence on the Heckscher-Ohlin Model Trade in Goods as a Substitute for Trade in Factors: Factor Content of Trade Patterns of Exports between Developed and Developing Countries Implications of the Tests Summary Appendix to Chapter 5: Factor Prices, Goods Prices, and Production Decisions Choice of Technique Goods Prices and Factor Prices More on Resources and Output Chapter 6. The Standard Trade Model A Standard Model of a Trading Economy Production Possibilities and Relative Supply Relative Prices and Demand The Welfare Effect of Changes in the Terms of Trade Box: U.S. Consumer Gains from Chinese Imports Determining Relative Prices Economic Growth: A Shift of the RS Curve Growth and the Production Possibility Frontier World Relative Supply and the Terms of Trade International Effects of Growth Case Study: Has the Growth of Newly Industrialized Economies Hurt Advanced Nations? Box: The Exposure of Developing Countries to Terms of Trade Shocks and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tariffs and Export Subsidies: Simultaneous Shifts in RS and RD Relative Demand and Supply Effects of a Tariff Effects of an Export Subsidy Implications of Terms of Trade Effects: Who Gains and Who Loses? International Borrowing and Lending Intertemporal Production Possibilities and Trade The Real Interest Rate Intertemporal Comparative Advantage Summary Appendix to Chapter 6: More on Intertemporal Trade Chapter 7. External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production Economies of Scale and International Trade: An Overview Economies of Scale and Market Structure The Theory of External Economies Specialized Suppliers Labor Market Pooling Knowledge Spillovers External Economies and Market Equilibrium External Economies and International Trade External Economies, Output, and Prices External Economies and the Pattern of Trade Trade and Welfare with External Economies Box: Holding the World Together Dynamic Increasing Returns Interregional Trade and Economic Geography Box: The City and the Street Summary Chapter 8. Firms in the Global Economy: Export and Foreign Sourcing Decisions and Multinational Enterprises The Theory of Imperfect Competition Monopoly: A Brief Review Monopolistic Competition Monopolistic Competition and Trade The Effects of Increased Market Size Gains from an Integrated Market: A Numerical Example The Significance of Intra-Industry Trade Case Study: Automobile Intra-Industry Trade within ASEAN-4: 1998–2002 Firm Responses to Trade: Winners, Losers, and Industry Performance Performance Differences across Producers The Effects of Increased Market Size Trade Costs and Export Decisions Dumping Case Study: Antidumping as Protectionism Multinationals and Foreign Direct Investment Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment Flows around the World Case Study: COVID-19 and Foreign Direct Investment Flows around the World Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Sourcing Decisions The Horizontal FDI Decision The Foreign Sourcing Decision The Outsourcing Decision: Make or Buy Box: Whose Trade Is It? Case Study: Shipping Jobs Overseas? Offshoring and Labor Market Outcomes in Germany Consequences of Multinationals and Foreign Outsourcing Summary Appendix to chapter 8: Determining Marginal Revenue Part 2: International Trade Policy Chapter 9. The Instruments of Trade Policy Basic Tariff Analysis Supply, Demand, and Trade in a Single Industry Effects of a Tariff Measuring the Amount of Protection Costs and Benefits of a Tariff Consumer and Producer Surplus Measuring the Costs and Benefits Case Study: Winners and Losers of the Trump Trade War Box: Tariffs and Retaliation Other Instruments of Trade Policy Export Subsidies: Theory Box: The Unfriendly Skies: Settling the Longest Running Trade Dispute Import Quotas: Theory Case Study: Tariff-Rate Quota Origin and its Application in Practice with Oilseeds Voluntary Export Restraints Local Content Requirements Box: Healthcare Protection with Local Content Requirements Other Trade Policy Instruments The Effects of Trade Policy: A Summary Summary Appendix to Chapter 9: Tariffs and Import Quotas in the Presence of Monopoly The Model with Free Trade The Model with a Tariff The Model with an Import Quota Comparing a Tariff and a Quota Chapter 10. The Political Economy of Trade Policy The Case for Free Trade Free Trade and Efficiency Additional Gains from Free Trade Rent Seeking Political Argument for Free Trade National Welfare Arguments against Free Trade The Terms of Trade Argument for a Tariff The Domestic Market Failure Argument against Free Trade How Convincing Is the Market Failure Argument? Income Distribution and Trade Policy Electoral Competition Collective Action Box: Politicians for Sale: Evidence from the 1990s Modeling the Political Process Who Gets Protected? International Negotiations and Trade Policy The Advantages of Negotiation International Trade Agreements: A Brief History The Uruguay Round Trade Liberalization Administrative Reforms: From the GATT to the WTO Benefits and Costs Box: Settling a Dispute—and Creating One Case Study: Testing the WTO’s Metal The End of Trade Agreements? Box: Do Agricultural Subsidies Hurt the Third World? Preferential Trading Agreements Box: Free Trade Area Versus Customs Union Box: Brexit Case Study: Trade Diversion in South America The Trans-Pacific Partnership Summary Appendix to Chapter 10: Proving That the Optimum Tariff Is Positive Demand and Supply The Tariff and Prices The Tariff and Domestic Welfare Chapter 11. Trade Policy in Developing Countries Import-Substituting Industrialization The Infant Industry Argument Promoting Manufacturing through Protection Case Study: Export-Led Strategy Results of Favoring Manufacturing: Problems of Import-Substituting Industrialization Trade Liberalization since 1985 Trade and Growth: Takeoff in Asia Box: India’s Boom Summary Chapter 12. Controversies in Trade Policy Sophisticated Arguments for Activist Trade Policy Technology and Externalities Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Policy Box: A Warning From Intel’s Founder Case Study: When the Chips Were Up Globalization and Low-Wage Labor The Anti-Globalization Movement Trade and Wages Revisited Labor Standards and Trade Negotiations Environmental and Cultural Issues The WTO and National Independence Case Study: A Tragedy in Bangladesh Globalization and the Environment Globalization, Growth, and Pollution The Problem of “Pollution Havens” The Carbon Tariff Dispute Trade Shocks and Their Impact on Communities Summary Part 3: Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics Chapter 13. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments The National Income Accounts National Product and National Income Capital Depreciation and International Transfers Gross Domestic Product National Income Accounting for an Open Economy Consumption Investment Government Purchases The National Income Identity for an Open Economy An Imaginary Open Economy The Current Account and Foreign Indebtedness Saving and the Current Account Private and Government Saving Box: The Mystery of the Missing Deficit The Balance of Payments Accounts Examples of Paired Transactions The Fundamental Balance of Payments Identity The Current Account, Once Again The Capital Account The Financial Account Statistical Discrepancy Box: Multinationals’ Profit Shifting and Ireland’s Volatile GDP Official Reserve Transactions Case Study: The Assets and Liabilities of the World’s Biggest Debtor Summary Chapter 14. Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach Exchange Rates and International Transactions Domestic and Foreign Prices Exchange Rates and Relative Prices The Foreign Exchange Market The Actors Characteristics of the Market Spot Rates and Forward Rates Foreign Exchange Swaps Futures and Options The Demand for Foreign Currency Assets Assets and Asset Returns Risk and Liquidity Interest Rates Exchange Rates and Asset Returns A Simple Rule Return, Risk, and Liquidity in the Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium in the Foreign Exchange Market Interest Parity: The Basic Equilibrium Condition How Changes in the Current Exchange Rate Affect Expected Returns The Equilibrium Exchange Rate Interest Rates, Expectations, and Equilibrium The Effect of Changing Interest Rates on the Current Exchange Rate The Effect of Changing Expectations on the Current Exchange Rate Case Study: What Explains the Carry Trade? Forward Exchange Rates and Covered Interest Parity Summary Chapter 15. Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates Money Defined: A Brief Review Money as a Medium of Exchange Money as a Unit of Account Money as a Store of Value What Is Money? How the Money Supply Is Determined The Demand for Money by Individuals Expected Return Risk Liquidity Aggregate Money Demand The Equilibrium Interest Rate: The Interaction of Money Supply and Demand Equilibrium in the Money Market Interest Rates and the Money Supply Output and the Interest Rate The Money Supply and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run Linking Money, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate U.S. Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate Europe’s Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate Money, the Price Level, and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run Money and Money Prices The Long-Run Effects of Money Supply Changes Empirical Evidence on Money Supplies and Price Levels Money and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics Short-Run Price Rigidity versus Long-Run Price Flexibility Box: Money Supply Growth and Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe Permanent Money Supply Changes and the Exchange Rate Exchange Rate Overshooting Case Study: Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate in Emerging Countries Summary Chapter 16. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run The Law of One Price Purchasing Power Parity The Relationship between PPP and the Law of One Price Absolute PPP and Relative PPP A Long-Run Exchange Rate Model Based on PPP The Fundamental Equation of the Monetary Approach Ongoing Inflation, Interest Parity, and PPP The Fisher Effect Empirical Evidence on PPP and the Law of One Price Explaining the Problems with PPP Trade Barriers and Nontradables Departures from Free Competition Differences in Consumption Patterns and Price Level Measurement Box: Measuring And Comparing Countries’ Wealth Worldwide: The International Comparison Program (ICP) PPP in the Short Run and in the Long Run Case Study: Why Price Levels Are Lower in Poorer Countries Beyond Purchasing Power Parity: A General Model of Long-Run Exchange Rates The Real Exchange Rate Demand, Supply, and the Long-Run Real Exchange Rate Box: Sticky Prices and the Law of One Price: Evidence from Scandinavian Duty-Free Shops Nominal and Real Exchange Rates in Long-Run Equilibrium International Interest Rate Differences and the Real Exchange Rate Real Interest Parity Summary Appendix to Chapter 16: The Fisher Effect, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate under the Flexible-Price Monetary Approach Chapter 17. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run Determinants of Aggregate Demand in an Open Economy Determinants of Consumption Demand Determinants of the Current Account How Real Exchange Rate Changes Affect the Current Account How Disposable Income Changes Affect the Current Account The Equation of Aggregate Demand The Real Exchange Rate and Aggregate Demand Real Income and Aggregate Demand How Output Is Determined in the Short Run Output Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The DD Schedule Output, the Exchange Rate, and Output Market Equilibrium Deriving the DD Schedule Factors That Shift the DD Schedule Asset Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The AA Schedule Output, the Exchange Rate, and Asset Market Equilibrium Deriving the AA Schedule Factors That Shift the AA Schedule Short-Run Equilibrium for an Open Economy: Putting the DD and AA Schedules Together Temporary Changes in Monetary and Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Policies to Maintain Full Employment Inflation Bias and Other Problems of Policy Formulation Permanent Shifts in Monetary and Fiscal Policy A Permanent Increase in the Money Supply Adjustment to a Permanent Increase in the Money Supply A Permanent Fiscal Expansion Macroeconomic Policies and the Current Account Gradual Trade Flow Adjustment and Current Account Dynamics The J-Curve Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Inflation Global Value Chains and Exchange Rate Effects on Export and Import Prices The Current Account, Wealth, and Exchange Rate Dynamics Box: Understanding Pass-Through to Import and Export Prices The Liquidity Trap Case Study: How Big Is the Government Spending Multiplier? Summary Appendix 1 to Chapter 17: Intertemporal Trade and Consumption Demand Appendix 2 to Chapter 17: The Marshall-Lerner Condition and Empirical Estimates of Trade Elasticities Appendix 3 to Chapter 17: The IS-LM Model and the DD-AA Model Chapter 18. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention Why Study Fixed Exchange Rates? Central Bank Intervention and the Money Supply The Central Bank Balance Sheet and the Money Supply Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Money Supply Sterilization The Balance of Payments and the Money Supply How the Central Bank Fixes the Exchange Rate Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate Money Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate A Diagrammatic Analysis Stabilization Policies with a Fixed Exchange Rate Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Changes in the Exchange Rate Adjustment to Fiscal Policy and Exchange Rate Changes Balance of Payments Crises and Capital Flight Managed Floating and Sterilized Intervention Perfect Asset Substitutability and the Ineffectiveness of Sterilized Intervention Case Study: Can Markets Attack a Strong Currency? The Case of Switzerland, 2011–2015 Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under Imperfect Asset Substitutability The Effects of Sterilized Intervention with Imperfect Asset Substitutability Evidence on the Effects of Sterilized Intervention Reserve Currencies in the World Monetary System The Mechanics of a Reserve Currency Standard The Asymmetric Position of the Reserve Center The Gold Standard The Mechanics of a Gold Standard Symmetric Monetary Adjustment under a Gold Standard Benefits and Drawbacks of the Gold Standard The Bimetallic Standard The Gold Exchange Standard Case Study: The Demand for International Reserves Summary Appendix 1 to Chapter 18: Equilibrium in the Foreign Exchange Market with Imperfect Asset Substitutability Demand Supply Equilibrium Appendix 2 to Chapter 18: The Timing of Balance of Payments Crises Appendix 3 to Chapter 18: The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments Part 4: International Macroeconomic Policy Chapter 19. International Monetary Systems: A Historical Overview Macroeconomic Policy Goals in an Open Economy Internal Balance: Full Employment and Price Level Stability External Balance: The Optimal Level of the Current Account Box: Can a Country Borrow Forever? The Case of New Zealand Classifying Monetary Systems: The Open-Economy Monetary Trilemma International Macroeconomic Policy under the Gold Standard, 1870–1914 Origins of the Gold Standard External Balance under the Gold Standard The Price-Specie-Flow Mechanism The Gold Standard “Rules of the Game”: Myth and Reality Internal Balance under the Gold Standard Case Study: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes: Conflict over America’s Monetary Standard during the 1890s The Interwar Years, 1918–1939 The Fleeting Return to Gold International Economic Disintegration Case Study: The International Gold Standard and the Great Depression The Bretton Woods System and the International Monetary Fund Goals and Structure of the IMF Convertibility and the Expansion of Private Financial Flows Speculative Capital Flows and Crises Analyzing Policy Options for Reaching Internal and External Balance Maintaining Internal Balance Maintaining External Balance Expenditure-Changing and Expenditure-Switching Policies The External Balance Problem of the United States under Bretton Woods Case Study: The End of Bretton Woods, Worldwide Inflation, and the Transition to Floating Rates The Mechanics of Imported Inflation Assessment The Case for Floating Exchange Rates Monetary Policy Autonomy Symmetry Exchange Rates as Automatic Stabilizers Exchange Rates and External Balance case study: The First Years of Floating Rates, 1973–1990 Macroeconomic Interdependence under a Floating Rate Case Study: Transformation and Crisis in the World Economy Box: The Thorny Problem of Currency Manipulation Case Study: The Dangers of Deflation What Has Been Learned Since 1973? Monetary Policy Autonomy Symmetry The Exchange Rate as an Automatic Stabilizer External Balance The Problem of Policy Coordination Are Fixed Exchange Rates Even an Option for Most Countries? Summary Appendix to Chapter 19: International Policy Coordination Failures Chapter 20. Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis The International Capital Market and the Gains from Trade Three Types of Gain from Trade Risk Aversion Portfolio Diversification as a Motive for International Asset Trade The Menu of International Assets: Debt versus Equity International Banking and the International Capital Market The Structure of the International Capital Market Offshore Banking and Offshore Currency Trading The Shadow Banking System Banking and Financial Fragility The Problem of Bank Failure Government Safeguards against Financial Instability Moral Hazard and the Problem of “Too Big to Fail” Box: Does the IMF Create Moral Hazard? The Challenge of Regulating International Banking The Financial Trilemma International Regulatory Cooperation through 2007 Case Study: The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 Box: Foreign Exchange Instability and Central Bank Swap Lines International Regulatory Initiatives after the Global Financial Crisis Metrics for International Capital Market Performance The Extent of International Portfolio Equity Diversification The Extent of Intertemporal Trade The Efficiency of International Asset-Price Arbitrage The Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market Summary Chapter 21. Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro How the European Single Currency Evolved What Has Driven European Monetary Cooperation? Box: Brexit The European Monetary System, 1979–1998 German Monetary Dominance and the Credibility Theory of the EMS Market Integration Initiatives European Economic and Monetary Union The Euro and Economic Policy in the Euro Zone The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact The European Central Bank and the Eurosystem The Revised Exchange Rate Mechanism The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas Economic Integration and the Benefits of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area: The GG Schedule Economic Integration and the Costs of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area: The LL Schedule The Decision to Join a Currency Area: Putting the GG and LL Schedules Together What Is an Optimum Currency Area? Other Important Considerations Case Study: Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? The Euro Crisis and the Future of EMU Origins of the Crisis Self-Fulfilling Government Default and the “Doom Loop” A Broader Crisis and Policy Responses ECB Outright Monetary Transactions Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic The Future of EMU Summary Chapter 22. Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform Income, Wealth, and Growth in the World Economy The Gap between Rich and Poor Has the World Income Gap Narrowed Over Time? The Importance of Developing Countries for Global Growth Structural Features of Developing Countries Box: The Commodity Super Cycle Developing-Country Borrowing and Debt The Economics of Financial Inflows to Developing Countries The Problem of Default Alternative Forms of Financial Inflow The Problem of “Original Sin” The Debt Crisis of the 1980s Reforms, Capital Inflows, and the Return of Crisis East Asia: Success and Crisis The East Asian Economic Miracle Box: Why Have Developing Countries Accumulated High Levels of International Reserves? Asian Weaknesses Box: What Did East Asia Do Right? The Asian Financial Crisis Lessons of Developing-Country Crises Reforming the World’s Financial “Architecture” Capital Mobility and the Trilemma of the Exchange Rate Regime “Prophylactic” Measures Coping with Crisis Box: Emerging Markets and Global Financial Cycles Understanding Global Capital Flows and the Global Distribution of Income: Is Geography Destiny? Box: Capital Paradoxes Summary Mathematical Postscripts Postscript to Chapter 5: The Factor-Proportions Model Factor Prices and Costs Goods Prices and Factor Prices Factor Supplies and Outputs Postscript to Chapter 6: The Trading World Economy Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium Supply, Demand, and the Stability of Equilibrium Effects of Changes in Supply and Demand Economic Growth A Transfer of Income A Tariff Postscript to Chapter 8: The Monopolistic Competition Model Postscript to Chapter 20: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification An Analytical Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio A Diagrammatic Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio The Effects of Changing Rates of Return Merchandise Trade Flows with the United States (in 2018 U.S. dollars) Gross National Product per Capita (in 2019 U.S. dollars) Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z