Macroeconomics
21st Edition
ISBN: 9781259915673
Author: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean Masaki Flynn Dr.
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Chapter 21, Problem 10RQ
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The impact of the continuous trade deficit of the US.
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Under a gold standard in which France defined one franc to be worth 1/50th of an ounce of gold and the U.S. defined one dollar to be worth 1/10th of an ounce of gold, then
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Assume a U.S. firm buys (imports) $5 million (in U.S. dollars) of foreign goods. That transaction by itself increasesthe trade deficit by $5 million. But, the $5 million will flow back to the United States to purchase either (i) U.S. goodsand services or (ii) U.S. assets.• How does the way the $5 million comes back to the United States determine whether there will be balancedtrade or a trade deficit?• How does the U.S. economy benefit from either transaction (the foreign purchase of U.S. goods and services[exports] or the purchase of U.S. assets)?
7. Previously metals are used as trading purposes. Both gold and silver
are used as international means of payment and the exchange rates
among currencies are determined by either their gold or silver
contents. Suppose that the dollar was pegged to gold at S20 per
ounce, the Japanese yen is pegged to gold at 120,000 yen per ounce
and to silver at 8,000 yen per ounce of silver, and the Canadian
dollar is pegged to silver at S$5 per ounce of silver. What would the
exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and Canadian dollar be under
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