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AP Intermediate 2nd Year Open Economy Macroeconomics — practice questions

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The balance of payments records a country's transactions with whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Trade in goods and services plus transfer payments are recorded in which account?Read the answer and worked solution →Receipts that residents get for free, without supplying goods or services, are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a transfer payment in the current account?Read the answer and worked solution →The balance of trade is the difference between exports and imports of what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the balance of trade, how is the export of goods entered?Read the answer and worked solution →A trade deficit arises when a country does what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group of flows is covered by invisibles in the current account?Read the answer and worked solution →A surplus on the current account means the nation is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a non-factor service within invisibles?Read the answer and worked solution →Net international earnings on labour, land and capital are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →On the capital account, buying a foreign asset is entered as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Shares of an Indian firm sold to a Chinese buyer are entered how in the capital account?Read the answer and worked solution →Capital account surplus arises when capital inflows are greater than what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a capital inflow?Read the answer and worked solution →A current account deficit must be financed by what, in an equilibrium BoP?Read the answer and worked solution →Without reserve movements, current account plus capital account equals what?Read the answer and worked solution →In a BoP deficit, what does the reserve bank do with foreign exchange?Read the answer and worked solution →A decrease in official reserves is called an overall BoP what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who are the ultimate financiers of any deficit in the balance of payments?Read the answer and worked solution →Which BoP item reflects the difficulty of recording every international transaction?Read the answer and worked solution →Official reserve transactions matter more under which exchange rate regime?Read the answer and worked solution →Transactions made for profit, independent of the BoP position, are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which transactions are determined by the gap in the balance of payments?Read the answer and worked solution →Which BoP item is treated as the accommodating item?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the IMF's BPM6 format, the BoP has which three accounts?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the new classification, trade in bonds and equity shares is placed in which account?Read the answer and worked solution →India exports goods worth 150 and imports goods worth 240 (million USD). The trade balance is what?Read the answer and worked solution →A trade balance of -90 and net invisibles of +52 give a current account balance of what?Read the answer and worked solution →The price of one currency in terms of another is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The balance of payments records a country's transactions with whom?

  1. The rest of the world
  2. Only its own central bank
  3. Only its state governments
  4. Only its domestic firms
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Correct answer: A. The rest of the world

BoP is a record of dealings between residents of a country and the rest of the world over a set period, usually a year.

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Trade in goods and services plus transfer payments are recorded in which account?

  1. Capital account
  2. Current account
  3. Reserve account
  4. Fiscal account
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Correct answer: B. Current account

The current account holds trade in goods, services and transfers, while asset deals go to the capital account.

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Receipts that residents get for free, without supplying goods or services, are called what?

  1. Factor incomes
  2. Export earnings
  3. Transfer payments
  4. Capital gains
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Correct answer: C. Transfer payments

Transfers such as gifts, remittances and grants involve no goods or services in return.

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