国际金融第一次作业.doc

... ... 国际金融作业 理学院陈隆 信息与计算科学 P314 3,5 Explain how each of the following transactions generates two entries —a credit and a debit—in the American balance of payments accounts, and describe how each entry would be classified: a. An American buys a share of German stock, paying by writing a check on an account with a Swiss bank. 答： 一位美国人用瑞士银行的支票购买德国的股票，这借记到了美国的金融项目， 而当美国人通过他的瑞士银行账户用支票支付时，在美国的金融项目上贷记此项。 b. An American buys a share of German stock, paying the seller with a check on an American bank. 答：一位美国人用美国银行的支票购买德国的股票时，应借记美国的金融项目， 德国的商人存支票时 进行贷记。 c.The Korean government carries out an official foreign exchange intervention in which it uses dollars held in an American bank to buy Korean currency from its citizens. 答：韩国政府施行采用由美国银行持有的美元来进行官方外汇干预， 从而从他的市民手中购 买韩国货币。需要借记美国的金融项目。 d. A tourist from Detroit buys a meal at an expensive restaurant in Lyons, France, paying with a travelers check. 答: 如果该公司需要卖出资产来支付款项， 那么该公司持有的法国资产的减少将登记美国金 融项目。该支票为法国的支票账户的话，该公司支付的款项将借记美国的经常项目。 e.A California winemaker contributes a case of cabernet sauvignon for a London wine tasting. 答：没有经过市场交易，不必在经常项目或金融项目借记或贷记。 f. A U.S.-owned factory in Britain uses local earnings to buy additional machinery. 答：这交易不发生在美国本土，不记入美国的国际收支账户内。 T he nation of Pecunia had a current account deficit of $1 billion and a non reserve financial account surplus of $500 million in 2008. a.What was the balance of payments of Pecunia in that year? What happened to the countrys net foreign assets? 答：该国的国际收支余额为 5 亿美元。该国的净国外资产就会减少 10 亿美元。 b. Assume that foreign central banks neither buy nor sell Pecunian assets. How did the Pecunian central banks foreign reserves change in 2008? How would this official intervention show up in the balance of payments accounts of Pecunia? 答：该国的中央银行没有动用私人资金流入来为该国的经常项目赤字融资。 其中央银行的储 备减少 5 亿美元，记入到国际收支账户中。 c.How would your answer to (b) change if you learned that foreign central banks had purchased $600 million of Pecunian assets in 2008? How would these official purchases enter foreign balan