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Solutions Manual For Essentials of International Economics 2 nd Edition By Robert Feenstra Alan Taylor (All Chapters, 100% Original V erified, A+ Grade) 1 / 4

The Global Economy 1.Figures 1-1 and 1-3 rely on data from the year 2006, and Figure 1-6 relies on data from 2005, to map worldwide trade, migration, and foreign direct investment. Up- dated data for migration and foreign direct investment were not available at the time of writing this chapter, but are available for worldwide trade. In this question you are asked to update the numbers for world trade.a.Go to the World Trade Organization Web site at www.wto.org and look for their trade data under “resourced” and “statistics.” 1 Look for the most recent edition of their International Trade Statistics publication, then go to “Trade by Region” and find the Excel spreadsheet with “Intra- and Inter-regional Merchandise Trade.” Print out this table. If you cannot find the Web site or spreadsheet, use the 2008 table for “In-

tra- and Inter-regional Merchandise Trade,” which is printed below:

b.From this table, what is the total amount of trade within Europe? What percent- age is this of total world trade?

Answer: $4,695 billion, which is 29.9% of the world total

S-3 1 Destination North South & Middle Origin America Central America Europe CIS Africa East Asia World Value World $2,708 $583 $6,736 $517 $458 $618 $3,903 $15,717 North America 1,015 165 369 16 34 60 376 2,036 South & Central America 169 159 121 9 17 12 101 600 Europe

475 964,695 240 186 189 487

6,447 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 36 10 406 135 11 25 77 703 Africa

122 19218 2 53 14 114

558 Middle East 117 7 126 7 37 122 569 1,021 Asia

775 128801.0 108 121 196 2,181

4,353

Source: WTO, International Trade Statistics 2009

Intra- and Inter-regional Merchandise Trade, 2008 (Billions of U.S. dollars) 1 The trade statistics are at http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e/its2009_e/its09_world_trade_dev_e.htm. 2 / 4

c.What is the total amount of trade (in either direction) between Europe and North America? Add that to the total trade within Europe, and calculate the per- centage of this to the world total.Answer:North America → Europe: $369

Europe → North America: $475

Adding that to intra-European trade, we obtain 35.2% of the world total.d.What is the total amount of trade within the Americas (i.e., between North America, Central America, South America, and within each of these regions)?What percentage is this of total world trade?Answer: $(1,015→ 165→ 169→ 159) $1,508 billion, which is 9.6% of the world total e.What is the total value of exports from Europe and the Americas and what per- centage is this of the world total?Answer: $(2,036 + 600 + 6,447) = $9,083 billion, which is 57.8% of the world total S-4Solutions ■Chapter 1 The Global Economy Europe →Europe/World 29.87% $4,695 North America →Europe$369 Europe →North America$475 Europe - North America total$844 (Europe + North America)/World35.24% $5,539 North America →North America$1,015 North America →Central and South America $165 Central & South America →North America$169 Central & South America →Central & South America $844 Central & South America - North America Total $1,508 Americas/World9.59% North America$2,036 Central & South America$600 Europe$6,447 Total$9,083 Total/World57.79% 3 / 4

f.What is the total value of exports from Asia, and what percentage is this of the world total?

Answer: $4,353 billion, which is 27.7% of the world total

g.What is the total value of exports from the Middle East and the Commonwealth of Independent States 2 and what percentage is this of the world total?Answer: $(1,021 + 703) = $1,724 billion, which is 11% of the world total h.What is the total value of exports from Africa, and what percentage is this of the world total?

Answer: $558 billion, which is 3.6% of the world total

2.Visit the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis at bea.gov to find information for the lat- est full calendar year (or for the last four quarters). What is the latest estimate of the size of the annual U.S. current account deficit in billions of dollars?

Answer: Answers will vary.

3.Visit oanda.com and download data on the same exchange rates (yuan per dollar and dollar per euro) for the past 12 months. What are the rates today? What were they a year ago? By what percentage amount did the rates change? At the OANDA Web site, click on “Currency Tools” and then “Currency Graph” and use the tool to plot the last year of data for each exchange rate. Do you think the rates are floating or fixed? Why?Answer: Answers will vary. The yuan-per-dollar exchange rate is fixed (with oc- casional changes in value) and the euro-dollar exchange rate is floating.

4.The data in Figure 1-6 end in the year 2008. Find the IMF’s World Economic Out- look Databases. (Hint: Google “World Economic Outlook Databases.”) Use this in- teractive tool to obtain the latest data on current accounts in U.S. dollars for all coun- tries (actual data or IMF estimates). Which countries had the 10 largest deficits last year? Which countries had the 10 largest surpluses last year?

Answer: Answers will vary.

5.Visit one of the many Web sites that lists all of the current exchange rates between different currencies around the world. Try a financial newspaper site such as ft.com (follow the links to “Market Data,” and then “Currencies”), or try Web sites devoted to foreign exchange market data such as oanda.com or xe.com (dig down; don’t just look at the major currency tables). According to these lists, how many distinct cur- rencies exist around the world today? Are some currencies used in more than one country?Answer: As of October 4, 2010, according to xe.com, “We support 180+ cur- rencies from over 250 geographical locations—that’s every world currency that we know of.” And several currencies are used in more than one country. The euro is, of course, best known. But some countries have adopted the U.S. dollar as their de factocurrency. Zimbabwe is perhaps the most recent, having recently cured their hyperinflation by giving up their own domestic currency.Solutions ■Chapter 1 The Global Economy S-5 Asia27.70% $4,353 Middle East and CIS10.97% $1,724 Africa3.55% $475 2 The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) consists of: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyr- gyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. 

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