《ch10 小型开放经济》.pptVIP

* * Solving this identity for NX yields the second equation, which says: A country’s net exports---its net outflow of goods---equals the difference between its output and its expenditure. Example: If we produce $500b worth of goods, and only buy $400b worth, then we export the remainder. Of course, NX can be a negative number, which would occur if our spending exceeds our income/output. * * In chapter 3, we examined a closed economy model of the loanable funds market. Savers could only lend money to domestic borrowers. Firms borrowing to finance their investment could only borrow from domestic savers. Thus, S = I. But in an open economy, S need not equal I. A country’s supply of loanable funds can be used to finance domestic investment, or to finance foreign investment (e.g. buying bonds from a foreign company that needs funding to build a new factory in its country). Similarly, domestic firms can finance their investment projects by borrowing loanable funds from domestic savers or by borrowing them from foreign savers. International borrowing and lending is called “international capital flows” even though it’s not the physical capital that is flowing abroad --- we don’t see factories uprooted and shipped to Mexico (Ross Perot’s famous remark notwithstanding). Rather, what can flow internationally is “loanable funds,” or financial capital, which of course is used to finance the purchase of physical capital. Note: foreign investment might involve the purchase of financial assets – stocks and bonds and so forth – or physical assets, such as direct ownership in office buildings or factories. In either case, a person in one country ends up owning part of the capital stock of another country. The equation NFI = S – I shows that, if a country’s savers supply more funds than its firms wish to borrow for investment, the excess of loanable funds will flow abroad in the form of net foreign investment (the purchase of foreign assets). Alternat