1、国际金融复习提纲Outline for Reviewing International Finance (2013)The Structure of Examination Paper1. Multiple Choice (301, 30 points)2. Definition of Terms(54, 20 points)3. Short Answer (310, 30 points)4. Calculation (210, 20 points)Outline for ReviewingMultiple ChoiceCover all ChaptersDefinition of TermC
2、hapter 12: balance of payments accounting, current account balance,official settlements balance,national savingbalance of payments accounting: 国际收支会计 accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of the worldCurrent account balance (exports minus imports): 经常项目差额net e
3、xpenditure by foreigners on domestic goods and services.The official settlements balance :官方结算差额 is the negative value of official international reserve assets, and it shows a central banks holdings of foreign assets relative to foreign central banks holdings of domestic assets.The bookkeeping offse
4、t to the balance of official reserve transaction .National saving = national income (Y) that is not spent on consumption (C) or government purchases (G).Chapter 13: appreciation, exchange rate, real rate of return, forward exchange rate, spot exchange rate, interest parity condition, vehicle currenc
5、yAppreciation is an increase in the value of a currency relative to another currency. Exchange rate: The price of one currency in terms of another is called an exchange rate.The real rate of return : The expected rate of return that savers consider in deciding which assets to hold is the expected re
6、al rate of return, that is, the rate of return computed by measuring asset values in terms of some broad representative of products that savers regularly purchase.forward exchange rates: Foreign exchange deals sometimes specify a value date farther away than two days30 days, 90 days, 180 days, or ev
7、en several years. The exchange rates quoted in such trans-actions are called forward exchange rates.The foreign exchange transactions we have been discussing take place on the spot: two par-ties agree to an exchange of bank deposits and execute the deal immediately. Exchange rates governing such on-
8、the-spot trading are called spot exchange rates, and the deal is called a spot transaction.Interest parity condition: Interest parity implies that deposits in all currencies are equally desirable assets.Interest parity implies that arbitrage in the foreign exchange market is not possible.vehicle cur
9、rency: 周转货币 Because of its pivotal role in so many foreign exchange deals, the dollar is sometimes called a vehicle currencyChapter 14: aggregate money demand, money supply, exchange rate overshooting,Aggregate money demand:货币总和需求 aggregate money demand is the total demand for money by all household
10、s and firms in the economy.is just the sum of all the economys individual money demands.Money supply: the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks Exchange rate overshooting: the exchange rate is said to overshoot when its immediate response to
11、 a disturbance is greater than its long-run response.Chapter 15: Fisher effect, law of one price, nominal interest rate, purchasing power parity (PPP), real exchange rate, relative PPPFisher effect: describes the relationship between nominal interest rates and inflation.Law of one price: the low of
12、one price states that in competitive markets free of transportation costs and official barriers to trade(such as tariffs),identical goods sold in different countries must sell for the same price when their prices are expressed in terms of the same currency.Nominal interest rate: 名义利率 An interest rat
13、e is called nominal if the frequency of compounding (e.g. a month) is not identical to the basic time unit (normally a year).Purchasing power parity(PPP): the theory of purchasing power parity states that the exchange rate between two countries currencies equals the ratio of the countries price leve
14、ls.Real exchange rate: the rate of exchange for goods and services across countriesRelative PPP: states that the percentage change in the exchange rate between two currencies over any period equals the difference between the percentage changes in national price levels.Chapter 16: AA schedule, inflat
15、ion bias, aggregate demand, J-curve, DD schedule, pass-throughAA schedule: The schedule of exchange rate and output combinations that are consistent with equilibrium in the domestic money market and the foreign exchange market is called the AA schedule.inflation bias: Refers to the difference betwee
16、n the mean value and the target value of inflation according to the circulation by the basic model.DD schedule: The curve shows all combinations of output and the exchange rate for which the output market is in short run equilibrium.pass-through: The percentage from the exchange rate to import price
17、s by which import prices rise when the home currency depreciates by 1 percent.Chapter 17: balance of payments crisis, bimetallic standard, capital flight, devaluation, gold exchange standard, gold standard, imperfect asset substitutability, managed floating exchange rates, perfect asset substitutabi
18、lity, reserve currency, revaluation, risk premium, self-fulfilling currency crises, sterilized foreign exchange intervention,balance of payments crisis: When a central bank does not have enough official international reserve assets to maintain a fixed exchange rate, a balance of payments crisis resu
19、lts.bimetallic standard: the value of currency is based on both silver and gold.capital flight: financial capital is quickly moved from domestic assets to foreign assetsdevaluation: a devaluation occurs when the central bank raises the domestic currency price of foreign currencygold exchange standar
20、d: halfway between the gold standard and a pure reserve currency standard is the gold exchange standardgold standard: gold acts as official international reserves that all countries use to make official international payments.imperfect asset substitutability: In general, foreign and domestic assets
21、may differ in the amount of risk that they carry: they may be imperfect substitutes.managed floating exchange rates: system in which governments may attempt to moderate exchange rate movements without keeping exchange rates rigidly fixed .perfect asset substitutability: the key feature of our model
22、that leads to these results is the assumption that the foreign exchange market is in equilibrium only when the expected returns on domestic and foreign currency bonds are the same.reserve currency: one currency acts as official international reserves.Revaluation: a revaluation occurs when the centra
23、l bank lower the domestic currency price of foreign currencyrisk premium: default risk and exchange rate riskself-fulfilling currency crises: Expectations of a balance of payments crisis only worsen the crisis and hasten devaluation that occur in such circumstances often are called self-fulfilling c
24、urrency crises .sterilized foreign exchange intervention: central banks sometimes carry our equal foreign and domestic asset transactions in opposite directions to nullify the impact of their foreign exchange operations on the domestic money supply . this type of policy is called sterilized foreign
25、exchange interventionChapter 18: external balance, internal balance, expenditure-changing policy, price-specie-flow mechanism, expenditure-switching policyexternal balance: A countrys current account is neither so deeply in deficit that the country may be unable to repay its foreign debts in the fut
26、ure nor so strongly in surplus that foreigners are put in that position.Internal balance: The full employment of a countrys resources and domestic price level stability.expenditure-changing policy: Changing social needs or total expenditure level of the national economy policy, whose purpose is to c
27、hange aggregate demand to change the demand for foreign goods, services and financial assets, and achieve the balance of payments adjustment. price-specie-flow mechanism: Under the internationally common practice of the gold standard, a countrys international balance of payments can keep equilibrium
28、 automatically by the fluctuations of commodity price and the output or input of gold.expenditure-switching policy: The policies which can affect the international competitiveness of commodities and to increase their income relative to spending by changing the spending structure.Chapter 19:destabili
29、zing speculationdestabilizing speculation: it means that if foreign exchange traders saw that a currency was depreciating, it was argued, they might sell the currency in the expectation of future depreciation regardless of the currency s longer-term prospects; and as more traders jumped on the bandw
30、agon by selling the currency, the expectations of depreciation would be realized.Chapter 20:monetary efficiency gain, economic stability loss, optimum currency areasmonetary efficiency gain: the monetary efficiency gain from joining the fixed exchange rate system equals the joiners saving from avoid
31、ing the uncertainty, confusion, and calculation and transaction costs that arise when exchange rates float.economic stability loss: the extra instability caused by the fixed exchange rate is the economic stability loss fixed exchange rates are most appropriate for areas closely integrated through in
32、ternational trade and factor movements.Short AnswerChapter 131.The Effect of Changing Interest Rates on the Current Exchange RateAn increase in the interest paid on deposit of a currency causes that currency to appreciate against foreign currencies.A rise in dollar interest rates causes the dollar to appreciate against the euro.A rise in euro interest rates causes the dollar to depreciate against the euro.2.The Effect of Changing Expectations on the Current Exchange RateA rise in the expecte