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Ch. 17-18
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
12/09/2011

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Term
open economy
Definition
an economy that has interactions in trade or finance with other countries
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closed economy
Definition
an economy that has no interactions in trade or finance with other countries
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balance of payments
Definition
the record of a country's trade with other countries in goods, services and assets
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current account
Definition
the part of the balance of payments that records a country's net exports, net income on investments, and net transfers
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balance of trade
Definition
the difference between the value of the goods a country exports and the value of the goods a country imports
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financial account
Definition
the part of the balance of payments that records purchases of assets a country has made abroad and foreign purchases of assets in the country
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net foreign investment
Definition
the difference between capital outflows from a country and capital inflows, also equal to net foreign direct investment plus net foreign portfolio investment
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capital account
Definition
the part of the balance of payments that records relatively minor transactions, such as migrants' transfers and sales and purchases of nonproduced, nonfinancial assets
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nominal exchange rate
Definition
the value of one country's currency in terms of another country's currency
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