2. Agenda
History
IS-LM
Balance of Payments
The Impossible Trinity
Applications
Further points of investigation
3. Assumptions
History
Mundells & Flemings Expansion
1960s
Robert Mundell
Marcus Fleming
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Independently expanded
on the Keynesian model of
macroeconomic policy
Small open economy, short run
Impact of macroeconomic policy under
Floating exchange rates
Fixed exchange rates
4. IS-LM
Investment Savings Curve
Liquidity Preference
Money Supply Curve
IV: Interest Rate
DV: Level of Y
IV: Level of Y
DV: Interest Rate
Y = C + I + G + NX M/P = L(i,Y)
i
I
= Y
MD
= i
Y
5. Balance of Payments
Current + Capital Accounts:
A countrys transactions with the rest of the world
BoP = CA + KA
Current Account
Capital Account
Imports & exports
Investment income
Foreign aid - transfers
賊 Foreign holdings of
countrys assets
賊 Countrys holdings of
foreign assets
7. Under a Flexible Exchange Rate
Global interest
rates increase:
i
Y
IS
LM
BoP
BoP1
IS1
Capital 鍖ows out
Depreciates currency
Boosts exports
IS curve shifts to the right
(Marshall-Lerner condition)}
iW
iW1
Y1Y
8. Under a Fixed Exchange Rate
Expansionary
Monetary Policy:
i
Y
IS
LM
BoP
Gov. buys bonds: money supply
i decreases, Y increases = capital out鍖ow
Y = Imports increase: NX<0: currency depreciates
iW
iW1 BoP1
LM1
Y1Y
9. Under a Fixed Exchange Rate
Expansionary
Fiscal Policy:
Government expenditure , IS shifts right
i increases, Y increases = capital in鍖ow
Current account , BoP shifts up
Sell currency, money supply = new Y
i
Y
IS
LM
BoP
BoP1
IS1
iW
iW1
Y1Y
LM1
11. Applications
Croatia: only monetary or only 鍖scal
policy will have no effect on economy
because of capital 鍖ows (LC!)
German reuni鍖cation: i increased
with strong growth, caused France
and Belgium to lose demand & output
due to EMS ties
Poland? (Too big?)
Other suggestions?
Aim: to investigate the effectiveness of different
policies under the Mundell-Fleming model
Transition of
socialist
planning to
open capitalism}