International Macroeconomics
This new text provides a systematic and comprehensive international treatment of the asset approach to the exchange rate and the current account of the balance of payments. It includes an analysis of macroeconomic adjustments under fixed, floating and man
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INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS Emmanuel Pikoulakis with contributions from
Frederick van der Ploeg and
Ronald MacDonald
© Emmanuel Pikoulakis 1995
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To the memory of my parents
Contents x
List o/Tables and Figures Acknowledgements
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Introduction 1
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Approaches to the Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate: The Case of Capital Immobility 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The accounting framework of the balance of payments 1.3 The elasticities approach to the balance of payments and the exchange rate 1.4 The absorption approach to the balance of payments and the exchange rate 1.5 The monetary approach to the balance of payments and the exchange rate
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The Asset Approach to the Exchange Rate: Monetary Models of the Exchange Rate 2.1 Introduction
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2.2 Monetary models of the exchange rate: the case of flexible prices 2.3 Monetary models of the exchange rate: full employment and sticky prices 2.4 Monetary models of the exchange rate: demand-determined outputs and sticky prices 2.5 Concluding remarks
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The Asset Approach to the Exchange Rate: Portfolio Balance Models of the Exchange Rate and the Current Account 3.1 Introduction 3.2 A mean-variance analysis of portfolio choice
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3.3 Monetary policy, expectations and the exchange rate 3.4 Monetary policy and the degree of asset substitution
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Contents 3.5 The exchange rate, the current account and expectations 3.6 Responses of the exchange rate and the current account to sterilised and non-sterilised, unanticipated, open-market operations 3.7 Concluding remarks
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Exchange Rates, Expectations and the Current Account 4.1 Introduction 4.2 A description of the model: setting the agenda 4.3 Short-run equilibrium responses under exogenous expectations 4.4 Impact, dynamic and steady-state adjustments under static expectations 4.5 The nominal exchange rate and the current account under perfect foresight 4.6 Concluding remarks The Cost of Disinflation in a Floating Exchange Rate Regime 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The basic Buiter-Miller model 5.3 The cost of disinflation w
