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ECON 7520 SEMESTER 1, 2023 Tutorial 1
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ECON 7520
SEMESTER 1, 2023
Tutorial 1
Problem 1 (Current Account Deinition)
Review the following concepts.
(a) Current Account Balance = Trade Balance
+ Income Balance
+ Net Unilateral Transfers.
Trade Balance = Merchandise Trade Balance
+ Services Balance.
Income Balance = Net Investment Income
+ Net International Compensation to Employees.
(b) Financial Account = Increase in Foreign-Owned Assets in Home Country — Increase in Home-Owned Assets Abroad.
Problem 2 (Balance of Payments Accounting)
Describe how each of the following transactions affects the Australian Balance of Payments. (Recall that each transaction gives rise to two entries in the Balance- of-Payments Accounts.)
(a) An Australian university buys several park benches from Spain and pays with a $120,000 check.
(b) An Australian resident buys $5,000 worth of British Airlines stock, paying with Australian dollars.
(c) A French consumer imports an Australian wool jacket for $200 and pays with a check drawn on an Australian bank in Melbourne.
(d) An Australian company sells a subsidiary in Australia to another Australian company and with the proceeds (1 million dollars) buys a French company.
(e) A group of Australian friends travels to Fiji and rents a vacation home for $2,500. They pay with a Australian credit card.
(f) Australia sends medicine, blankets, tents, and nonperishable food worth 400 million dollars to victims of an earthquake in a foreign country.