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International Economics: Theory and Policy, Global Edition

International Economics: Theory and Policy, Global Edition

Paul R. Krugman | Maurice Obstfeld | Marc Melitz

(2017)

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Abstract

For courses in International Economics, International Finance, and International Trade.

 

A balanced approach to theory and policy applications

International Economics: Theory and Policy provides engaging, balanced coverage of the key concepts and practical applications of the two main topic areas of the discipline. For both international trade and international finance, an intuitive introduction to theory is followed by detailed coverage of policy applications. With this new Eleventh Edition, Global Edition, the author team of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, renowned researcher Maurice Obstfeld, and Marc Melitz of Harvard University, continues to set the standard for International Economics courses.

 

Pearson MyLabTM Economics not included. Students, if Pearson MyLab Economics is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyLab Economics should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
The Pearson Series in Economics 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Brief Contents 5
Contents 7
Preface 19
Chapter 1 Introduction 29
What Is International Economics About? 31
The Gains from Trade 32
The Pattern of Trade 33
How Much Trade? 33
Balance of Payments 34
Exchange Rate Determination 35
International Policy Coordination 35
The International Capital Market 36
International Economics: Trade and Money 37
PART 1 International Trade Theory 38
Chapter 2 World Trade: An Overview 38
Who Trades with Whom? 38
Size Matters: The Gravity Model 39
Using the Gravity Model: Looking for Anomalies 41
Impediments to Trade: Distance, Barriers, and Borders 42
The Changing Pattern of World Trade 44
Has the World Gotten Smaller? 44
What Do We Trade? 46
Service Offshoring 47
Do Old Rules Still Apply? 49
Summary 50
Chapter 3 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 52
The Concept of Comparative Advantage 53
A One-Factor Economy\r 54
Relative Prices and Supply 56
Trade in a One-Factor World\r 57
Determining the Relative Price after Trade 58
BOX: Comparative Advantage in Practice: The Case of Usain Bolt\r 61
The Gains from Trade 62
A Note on Relative Wages 63
BOX: Economic Isolation and Autarky over Time and Space\r 64
Misconceptions about Comparative Advantage 65
Productivity and Competitiveness 65
BOX: Do Wages Reflect Productivity? \r 66
The Pauper Labor Argument 67
Exploitation 67
Comparative Advantage with Many Goods 68
Setting Up the Model 68
Relative Wages and Specialization 68
Determining the Relative Wage in the Multigood Model 70
Adding Transport Costs and Nontraded Goods 72
Empirical Evidence on the Ricardian Model 73
Summary 76
Chapter 4 Specific Factors and Income Distribution 79
The Specific Factors Model 80
BOX: What Is a Specific Factor? \r 81
Assumptions of the Model 81
Production Possibilities 82
Prices, Wages, and Labor Allocation 85
Relative Prices and the Distribution of Income 89
International Trade in the Specific Factors Model 91
Income Distribution and the Gains from Trade 92
The Political Economy of Trade: A Preliminary View 95
Income Distribution and Trade Politics 96
CASE STUDY: Trade and Unemployment\r 96
International Labor Mobility 100
CASE STUDY: Wage Convergence in the European Union\r 102
CASE STUDY: Immigration and the U.S. Economy: Future Prospects\r 104
Summary 107
Chapter 5 Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model\r 115
Model of a Two-Factor Economy\r 116
Prices and Production 116
Choosing the Mix of Inputs 119
Factor Prices and Goods Prices 121
Resources and Output 124
Effects of International Trade\rbetween Two-Factor Economies\r 125
CASE STUDY: North-South Trade \rand Income Inequality 128
Skill-Biased Technological Change and Income Inequality\r 130
Relative Prices and the Pattern of Trade 126
Trade and the Distribution of Income 127
BOX: The Declining Labor Share of Income and Capital-Skill Complementarity 134
Factor-Price Equalization\r 135
Empirical Evidence on the Heckscher-Ohlin Model\r 136
Trade in Goods as a Substitute for Trade in Factors: Factor Content of Trade 137
Patterns of Exports between Developed and Developing Countries 140
Implications of the Tests 142
Summary 143
Chapter 6 The Standard Trade Model 151
A Standard Model of a Trading Economy 152
Production Possibilities and Relative Supply 152
Relative Prices and Demand 153
The Welfare Effect of Changes in the Terms of Trade 156
Determining Relative Prices 157
CASE STUDY: Unequal Gains from Trade across the Income Distribution\r 157
Economic Growth: A Shift of the RS Curve 160
Growth and the Production Possibility Frontier 160
World Relative Supply and the Terms of Trade 162
International Effects of Growth 163
CASE STUDY: Has the Growth of Newly Industrialized Economies Hurt Advanced Nations?\r 164
Tariffs and Export Subsidies: Simultaneous Shifts in RS and RD 166
Relative Demand and Supply Effects of a Tariff 166
Effects of an Export Subsidy 167
Implications of Terms of Trade Effects: Who Gains and Who Loses? 168
International Borrowing and Lending 169
Intertemporal Production Possibilities and Trade 169
The Real Interest Rate 170
Intertemporal Comparative Advantage 172
Summary 172
Chapter 7 External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production 179
Economies of Scale and International Trade: An Overview 180
Economies of Scale and Market Structure 181
The Theory of External Economies 182
Specialized Suppliers 182
Labor Market Pooling 183
Knowledge Spillovers 184
External Economies and Market Equilibrium 185
External Economies and International Trade 186
External Economies, Output, and Prices 186
External Economies and the Pattern of Trade 187
BOX: Holding the World Together\r 189
Trade and Welfare with External Economies 190
Dynamic Increasing Returns 191
Interregional Trade and Economic Geography 192
BOX: Soccer and the English Premiere League\r 194
Summary 195
Chapter 8 Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises 198
The Theory of Imperfect Competition 199
Monopoly: A Brief Review 200
Monopolistic Competition 202
Monopolistic Competition and Trade 207
The Effects of Increased Market Size 207
Gains from an Integrated Market: A Numerical Example 208
The Significance of Intra-Industry Trade\r 212
CASE STUDY: Automobile Intra-Industry Trade within ASEAN-4: 1998–2002 214
Firm Responses to Trade: Winners, Losers, and Industry Performance 215
Performance Differences across Producers 216
The Effects of Increased Market Size 218
Trade Costs and Export Decisions 220
Dumping 222
CASE STUDY: Antidumping as Protectionism 223
Multinationals and Outsourcing 225
CASE STUDY: Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment Flows around the World 225
The Firm’s Decision Regarding Foreign Direct Investment 229
Outsourcing 230
BOX: Whose Trade Is It? 231
CASE STUDY: Shipping Jobs Overseas? Offshoring and Labor Market Outcomes in Germany\r 233
Consequences of Multinationals and Foreign Outsourcing 236
Summary 237
Part 2 International Trade Policy 243
Chapter 9 The Instruments of Trade Policy 243
Basic Tariff Analysis 243
Supply, Demand, and Trade in a Single Industry 244
Effects of a Tariff 246
Measuring the Amount of Protection 247
Costs and Benefits of a Tariff 249
Consumer and Producer Surplus 249
Measuring the Costs and Benefits 251
BOX: Tariffs and Retaliation 253
Other Instruments of Trade Policy 255
Export Subsidies: Theory 255
CASE STUDY: Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy\r 256
Import Quotas: Theory 257
CASE STUDY: Tariff-Rate Quota Origin and its Application in Practice with Oilseeds\r 258
Voluntary Export Restraints 262
CASE STUDY: A Voluntary Export Restraint in Practice\r 262
Local Content Requirements 263
BOX: Healthcare Protection with Local Content Requirements\r 264
Other Trade Policy Instruments 265
The Effects of Trade Policy: A Summary 265
Summary 266
Chapter 10 The Political Economy of Trade Policy 274
The Case for Free Trade 275
Free Trade and Efficiency 275
Additional Gains from Free Trade 276
Rent Seeking 277
Political Argument for Free Trade 277
National Welfare Arguments against Free Trade 278
The Terms of Trade Argument for a Tariff 278
The Domestic Market Failure Argument against Free Trade 279
How Convincing Is the Market Failure Argument? 281
Income Distribution and Trade Policy 282
Electoral Competition 283
Collective Action 284
BOX: Politicians for Sale: Evidence from the 1990s\r 285
Modeling the Political Process 286
Who Gets Protected? 286
International Negotiations and Trade Policy 288
The Advantages of Negotiation 289
International Trade Agreements: A Brief History 290
The Uruguay Round 292
Trade Liberalization 292
Administrative Reforms: From the GATT to the WTO 293
Benefits and Costs 294
BOX: Settling a Dispute—And Creating One\r 295
CASE STUDY: Testing the WTO’s Metal \r 296
The End of Trade Agreements? 297
BOX: Do Agricultural Subsidies Hurt the Third World?\r 298
Preferential Trading Agreements 299
BOX: Free Trade Area Versus Customs Union\r 300
BOX: Brexit\r 301
CASE STUDY: Trade Diversion in South America 302
The Trans-Pacific Partnership\r 303
Summary 304
Chapter 11 Trade Policy in Developing Countries 311
Import-Substituting Industrialization\r 312
The Infant Industry Argument 312
Promoting Manufacturing through Protection 314
CASE STUDY: Export-Led Strategy 316
Results of Favoring Manufacturing:\rProblems of Import-Substituting Industrialization\r 317
Trade Liberalization since 1985 319
Trade and Growth: Takeoff in Asia 321
BOX: India’s Boom\r 323
Summary 324
Chapter 12 Controversies in Trade Policy 326
Sophisticated Arguments for Activist Trade Policy 327
Technology and Externalities 327
Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Policy 330
BOX: A Warning from Intel’s Founder\r 332
CASE STUDY: When the Chips Were Up 333
Globalization and Low-Wage Labor\r 335
The Anti-Globalization Movement\r 335
Trade and Wages Revisited 336
Labor Standards and Trade Negotiations 338
Environmental and Cultural Issues 338
The WTO and National Independence 339
CASE STUDY: A Tragedy in Bangladesh\r 340
Globalization and the Environment 341
Globalization, Growth, and Pollution 341
The Problem of “Pollution Havens” 343
The Carbon Tariff Dispute 344
Trade Shocks and Their Impact on Communities 345
Summary 346
Part 3 Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics\r 349
Chapter 13 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments 349
The National Income Accounts 351
National Product and National Income 352
Capital Depreciation and International Transfers 353
Gross Domestic Product 353
National Income Accounting for an Open Economy 354
Consumption 354
Investment 354
Government Purchases 355
The National Income Identity for an Open Economy 355
An Imaginary Open Economy 356
The Current Account and Foreign Indebtedness 356
Saving and the Current Account 358
Private and Government Saving 359
BOX: The Mystery of the Missing Deficit\r 360
The Balance of Payments Accounts 362
Examples of Paired Transactions 363
The Fundamental Balance of Payments Identity 364
The Current Account, Once Again 365
The Capital Account 366
The Financial Account 366
Statistical Discrepancy 367
Official Reserve Transactions 368
CASE STUDY: The Assets and Liabilities of the World’s Biggest Debtor\r 369
Summary 373
Chapter 14 Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach 378
Exchange Rates and International Transactions 379
Domestic and Foreign Prices 379
Exchange Rates and Relative Prices 381
The Foreign Exchange Market 382
The Actors 382
BOX: Exchange Rates, Auto Prices, and Currency Wars\r 383
Characteristics of the Market 384
Spot Rates and Forward Rates 386
Foreign Exchange Swaps 387
Futures and Options 387
The Demand for Foreign Currency Assets 388
Assets and Asset Returns 388
BOX: Offshore Currency Markets: The Case of the Chinese Yuan\r 389
Risk and Liquidity 391
Interest Rates 392
Exchange Rates and Asset Returns 392
A Simple Rule 394
Return, Risk, and Liquidity in the Foreign Exchange Market 395
Equilibrium in the Foreign Exchange Market 396
Interest Parity: The Basic Equilibrium Condition 396
How Changes in the Current Exchange Rate Affect Expected Returns 397
The Equilibrium Exchange Rate 399
Interest Rates, Expectations, and Equilibrium 401
The Effect of Changing Interest Rates on the Current Exchange Rate 401
The Effect of Changing Expectations on the Current Exchange Rate 403
CASE STUDY: What Explains the Carry Trade?\r 403
Summary 406
Chapter 15 Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates 414
Money Defined: A Brief Review 415
Money as a Medium of Exchange 415
Money as a Unit of Account 415
Money as a Store of Value 416
What Is Money? 416
How the Money Supply Is Determined 416
The Demand for Money by Individuals 417
Expected Return 417
Risk 418
Liquidity 418
Aggregate Money Demand 418
The Equilibrium Interest Rate: The Interaction of Money Supply and Demand 420
Equilibrium in the Money Market 421
Interest Rates and the Money Supply 422
Output and the Interest Rate 423
The Money Supply and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run 424
Linking Money, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate 424
U.S. Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate 427
Europe’s Money Supply and the Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate 427
Money, the Price Level, and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 430
Money and Money Prices 430
The Long-Run Effects of Money Supply Changes\r 431
Empirical Evidence on Money Supplies and Price Levels 432
Money and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 433
Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics 434
Short-Run Price Rigidity versus Long-Run Price Flexibility\r 434
BOX: Money Supply Growth and Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe\r 436
Permanent Money Supply Changes and the Exchange Rate 438
Exchange Rate Overshooting 441
CASE STUDY: Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate in Emerging Countries\r 441
Summary 444
Chapter 16 Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run 449
The Law of One Price 450
Purchasing Power Parity 451
The Relationship between PPP and the Law of One Price 451
Absolute PPP and Relative PPP 452
A Long-Run Exchange Rate Model Based on PPP\r 453
The Fundamental Equation of the Monetary Approach 453
Ongoing Inflation, Interest Parity, and PPP 455
The Fisher Effect 456
Empirical Evidence on PPP and the Law of One Price 459
Explaining the Problems with PPP 461
Trade Barriers and Nontradables 461
Departures from Free Competition 462
Differences in Consumption Patterns and Price Level Measurement 463
BOX: Measuring and Comparing Countries’ Wealth Worldwide: The International Comparison Program (ICP) 463
PPP in the Short Run and in the Long Run 466
CASE STUDY: Why Price Levels Are Lower in Poorer Countries\r 467
Beyond Purchasing Power Parity:\rA General Model of Long-Run Exchange Rates\r 469
The Real Exchange Rate 469
Demand, Supply, and the Long-Run Real Exchange Rate\r 471
BOX: Sticky Prices and the Law of One Price:\rEvidence from Scandinavian Duty-Free Shops\r 472
Nominal and Real Exchange Rates in Long-Run Equilibrium\r 474
International Interest Rate Differences and the Real Exchange Rate 476
Real Interest Parity 477
Summary 479
Chapter 17 Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run 487
Determinants of Aggregate Demand in an Open Economy 488
Determinants of Consumption Demand 488
Determinants of the Current Account 489
How Real Exchange Rate Changes Affect the Current Account 490
How Disposable Income Changes Affect the Current Account 491
The Equation of Aggregate Demand 491
The Real Exchange Rate and Aggregate Demand 491
Real Income and Aggregate Demand 492
How Output Is Determined in the Short Run 493
Output Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The DD Schedule 494
Output, the Exchange Rate, and Output Market Equilibrium 494
Deriving the DD Schedule 495
Factors That Shift the DD Schedule 496
Asset Market Equilibrium in the Short Run: The AA Schedule 499
Output, the Exchange Rate, and Asset Market Equilibrium 499
Deriving the AA Schedule 501
Factors That Shift the AA Schedule 501
Short-Run Equilibrium for an Open Economy:\rPutting the DD and AA Schedules Together\r 502
Temporary Changes in Monetary and Fiscal Policy 504
Monetary Policy 505
Fiscal Policy 505
Policies to Maintain Full Employment 506
Inflation Bias and Other Problems of Policy Formulation 508
Permanent Shifts in Monetary and Fiscal Policy 509
A Permanent Increase in the Money Supply 509
Adjustment to a Permanent Increase in the Money Supply 510
A Permanent Fiscal Expansion 512
Macroeconomic Policies and the Current Account 513
Gradual Trade Flow Adjustment and Current Account Dynamics 515
The J-Curve\r 515
Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Inflation\r 516
The Current Account, Wealth, and Exchange Rate Dynamics 517
BOX: Understanding Pass-Through to Import and Export Prices 518
The Liquidity Trap 519
CASE STUDY: How Big Is the Government Spending Multiplier?\r 522
Summary 524
Chapter 18 Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention 534
Why Study Fixed Exchange Rates? 535
Central Bank Intervention and the Money Supply 536
The Central Bank Balance Sheet and the Money Supply 536
Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Money Supply 538
Sterilization 539
The Balance of Payments and the Money Supply 539
How the Central Bank Fixes the Exchange Rate 540
Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate 541
Money Market Equilibrium under a Fixed Exchange Rate 541
A Diagrammatic Analysis 542
Stabilization Policies with a Fixed Exchange Rate 543
Monetary Policy 544
Fiscal Policy 545
Changes in the Exchange Rate 546
Adjustment to Fiscal Policy and Exchange Rate Changes 547
Balance of Payments Crises and Capital Flight 548
Managed Floating and Sterilized Intervention 551
Perfect Asset Substitutability and the Ineffectiveness of Sterilized Intervention 551
CASE STUDY: Can Markets Attack a Strong Currency? The Case of Switzerland\r 552
Foreign Exchange Market Equilibrium under Imperfect Asset Substitutability 555
The Effects of Sterilized Intervention with Imperfect Asset Substitutability 555
Evidence on the Effects of Sterilized Intervention 557
Reserve Currencies in the World Monetary System 558
The Mechanics of a Reserve Currency Standard 558
The Asymmetric Position of the Reserve Center 559
The Gold Standard 560
The Mechanics of a Gold Standard 560
Symmetric Monetary Adjustment under a Gold Standard 560
Benefits and Drawbacks of the Gold Standard 561
The Bimetallic Standard 562
The Gold Exchange Standard 562
CASE STUDY: The Cost to Become an International Currency: The Renminbi Case\r 563
Summary 567
Part 4 International Macroeconomic Policy 579
Chapter 19 International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview 579
Macroeconomic Policy Goals in an Open Economy 580
Internal Balance: Full Employment and Price Level Stability 581
External Balance: The Optimal Level of the Current Account 582
BOX: Can a Country Borrow Forever? The Case of New Zealand\r 584
Classifying Monetary Systems:\rThe Open-Economy Monetary Trilemma\r 588
International Macroeconomic Policy under the Gold Standard, 1870–1914 589
Origins of the Gold Standard 590
External Balance under the Gold Standard 590
The Price-Specie-Flow Mechanism\r 591
The Gold Standard “Rules of the Game”: Myth and Reality 592
Internal Balance under the Gold Standard 592
CASE STUDY: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes: Conflict over America’s Monetary Standard during the 1890s\r 593
The Interwar Years, 1918–1939 595
The Fleeting Return to Gold 595
International Economic Disintegration 596
CASE STUDY: The International Gold Standard and the Great Depression\r 597
The Bretton Woods System and the International Monetary Fund 598
Goals and Structure of the IMF 598
Convertibility and the Expansion of Private Financial Flows 599
Speculative Capital Flows and Crises 600
Analyzing Policy Options for Reaching Internal and External Balance 601
Maintaining Internal Balance 602
Maintaining External Balance 603
Expenditure-Changing and Expenditure-Switching Policies\r 604
The External Balance Problem of the United States under Bretton Woods 605
CASE STUDY: The End of Bretton Woods, Worldwide Inflation, and the Transition to Floating Rates\r 606
The Mechanics of Imported Inflation 608
Assessment 609
The Case for Floating Exchange Rates 610
Monetary Policy Autonomy 610
Symmetry 611
Exchange Rates as Automatic Stabilizers 612
Exchange Rates and External Balance 614
CASE STUDY: The First Years of Floating Rates, 1973–1990\r 614
Macroeconomic Interdependence under a Floating Rate 619
CASE STUDY: Transformation and Crisis in the World Economy\r 620
CASE STUDY: The Dangers of Deflation\r 626
What Has Been Learned Since 1973? 628
Monetary Policy Autonomy 628
Symmetry 630
The Exchange Rate as an Automatic Stabilizer 630
External Balance 631
The Problem of Policy Coordination 631
Are Fixed Exchange Rates Even an Option for Most Countries? 632
Summary 633
Chapter 20 Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis 642
The International Capital Market and the Gains from Trade 643
Three Types of Gain from Trade 643
Risk Aversion 644
Portfolio Diversification as a Motive for International Asset Trade 645
The Menu of International Assets: Debt versus Equity 646
International Banking and the International Capital Market 647
The Structure of the International Capital Market 647
Offshore Banking and Offshore Currency Trading 648
The Shadow Banking System 649
Banking and Financial Fragility 650
The Problem of Bank Failure 650
Government Safeguards against Financial Instability 652
Moral Hazard and the Problem of “Too Big to Fail” 655
BOX: Does the IMF Cause Moral Hazard?\r 656
The Challenge of Regulating International Banking 657
The Financial Trilemma 658
International Regulatory Cooperation through 2007 659
CASE STUDY: \rThe Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 660
BOX: Foreign Exchange Instability and Central Bank Swap Lines\r 663
International Regulatory Initiatives after the Global Financial Crisis 665
How Well Have International Financial Markets Allocated Capital and Risk? 667
The Extent of International Portfolio Diversification 668
The Extent of Intertemporal Trade 670
Onshore-Offshore Interest Differentials\r 671
The Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market 671
Summary 676
Chapter 21 Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro 681
How the European Single Currency Evolved 683
What Has Driven European Monetary Cooperation? 683
BOX:\rBrexit 684
The European Monetary System, 1979–1998 686
German Monetary Dominance and the Credibility Theory of the EMS 687
Market Integration Initiatives 689
European Economic and Monetary Union 689
The Euro and Economic Policy in the Euro Zone 690
The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact 691
The European Central Bank and the Eurosystem 692
The Revised Exchange Rate Mechanism 692
The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas 693
Economic Integration and the Benefits of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area: The GG Schedule 693
Economic Integration and the Costs of a Fixed Exchange Rate Area: The LL Schedule 695
The Decision to Join a Currency Area: Putting the GG and LL Schedules Together 698
What Is an Optimum Currency Area? 699
Other Important Considerations 699
CASE STUDY: \rIs Europe an Optimum Currency Area? 701
The Euro Crisis and the Future of EMU 704
Origins of the Crisis 704
Self-Fulfilling Government Default and the “Doom Loop”\r 710
A Broader Crisis and Policy Responses 712
ECB Outright Monetary Transactions 713
The Future of EMU 714
Summary 715
Chapter 22 Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform 720
Income, Wealth, and Growth in the World Economy 721
The Gap between Rich and Poor 721
Has the World Income Gap Narrowed Over Time? 722
The Importance of Developing Countries for Global Growth 724
Structural Features of Developing Countries 725
BOX: The Commodity Supercycle\r 727
Developing-Country Borrowing and Debt\r 730
The Economics of Financial Inflows to Developing Countries 731
The Problem of Default 732
Alternative Forms of Financial Inflow 734
The Problem of “Original Sin” 735
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s 737
Reforms, Capital Inflows, and the Return of Crisis 738
East Asia: Success and Crisis 741
The East Asian Economic Miracle 742
BOX:\rWhy Have Developing Countries Accumulated Such High Levels of International Reserves? 742
Asian Weaknesses 744
BOX:\rWhat Did East Asia Do Right? 746
The Asian Financial Crisis 747
Lessons of Developing-Country Crises\r 748
Reforming the World’s Financial “Architecture” 749
Capital Mobility and the Trilemma of the Exchange Rate Regime 750
“Prophylactic” Measures 752
Coping with Crisis 753
Understanding Global Capital Flows and the Global Distribution of Income: Is Geography Destiny? 754
BOX:\rCapital Paradoxes 755
Summary 759
Mathematical Postscripts 764
Postscript to Chapter 5: The Factor-Proportion Model \r 764
Factor Prices and Costs 764
Goods Prices and Factor Prices 766
Factor Supplies and Outputs 767
Postscript to Chapter 6: The Trading World Economy 768
Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium 768
Supply, Demand, and the Stability of Equilibrium 770
Effects of Changes in Supply and Demand 772
Economic Growth 772
A Transfer of Income 773
A Tariff 774
Postscript to Chapter 8: The Monopolistic Competition Model 776
Postscript to Chapter 20: Risk Aversion and International Portfolio Diversification 778
An Analytical Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio 778
A Diagrammatic Derivation of the Optimal Portfolio 779
The Effects of Changing Rates of Return 781
Index 785
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