《国际经济学》教师手册及课后习题答案(克鲁格曼,第六版)imch12.docVIP

HAPTER 12 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments Chapter Organization The National Income Accounts National Product and National Income Capital Depreciation, International Transfers, and Indirect Business Taxes Gross Domestic Product National Income Accounting in a Closed 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 Savings Case Study: Government Budget Deficit Reduction May Not Increase the Current Account Surplus The Balance of Payments Accounts Examples of Paired Transactions The Fundamental Balance of Payments Identity The Current Account, Once Again The Financial Account The Capital Account The Statistical Discrepancy Official Reserve Transactions Box: The Mystery of the Missing Surplus Case Study: Is the United States the Worlds Biggest Debtor? Summary Chapter Overview This chapter introduces the international macroeconomics section of the text. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of the focus of international macroeconomics. You may want to contrast the type of topics studied in international trade, such as the determinants of the patterns of trade and the gains from trade, with the issues studied in international finance, which include unemployment, savings, trade imbalances, and money and the price level. You can then preview the manner in which the theory taught in this section of the course will enable students to better understand important and timely issues such as the U.S. trade deficit, the experience with international economic coordination, European Economic and Monetary Union, and the financial crises in Asia and other developing countries. The core of this chapter is a presentation of national income accounting theory and balance of payments accounting theory. A solid understanding of these topics proves useful in other p