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Open Economy MacroInternal and external balance

Formulas for this chapter

Equilibrium with a government sector

I + X + G = S + M + T k = 1 / (MPS + MPM + MPT) Sequence: closed 1/0.25 = 4, open 1/0.40 = 2.5, with government 1/0.50 = 2

Any question involving fiscal policy. G is an injection, T a leakage, and the leakage rate now has three components.

G
Government expenditure, an injection alongside I and X
T
Taxes, a leakage alongside S and M
MPT
The marginal tax rate, the share of extra income taken in tax

Sizing an expenditure-changing policy, and its external cost

required change in autonomous spending = income gap / k induced change in imports = MPM x income gap external cost per unit of fiscal action = k x MPM

Every Zone II and Zone IV question. The first line hits the internal target, the second measures the damage to the external one.

income gap
Full-employment income minus current income; negative for an inflationary gap
k x MPM
Deficit opened per unit of fiscal expansion, e.g. 2 x 0.15 = 0.30

Reading the Swan diagram

Vertical axis R (exchange rate) Horizontal axis D (absorption) EE external balance, slopes UP YY internal balance, slopes DOWN Above EE surplus, below EE deficit Above YY inflation, below YY unemployment Zones anticlockwise from the left: I, II, III, IV

Any draw-and-explain question on internal and external balance. Name the axes first, then justify each slope, then the zones.

F
The intersection of EE and YY, where both balances hold
Zone I
Left of F: surplus with unemployment
Zone III
Right of F: deficit with inflation
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The real wordsTheory

The five national objectives

The deck lists five. Learn them in this order.

  1. Internal balance
  2. External balance
  3. A reasonable rate of growth
  4. An equitable distribution of income
  5. Adequate environmental protection

This chapter and the next work on the first two only, because those are the two the exchange rate and the two macro policy tools can address. Do not leave the other three out of a list question: they are on the slide.