Date of Award

6-2018

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Economics

First Advisor

Peter Sai-Wing Ho

Keywords

Economics, Japan, China, United States

Abstract

Japan, China, and the United States have been the major players in the global balance of payments imbalances. The U.S. has experienced sizeable current account deficits for a long time. For a couple of decades before the 2000s, Japan was the major current account surplus country with the U.S. and thus targeted in many trade disputes. China has replaced Japan to become the targeted country after the 2000s. Some may easily assume that the balance of payments imbalances were caused by similar export promotion and import restriction development strategies adopted by these two countries. Through both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the causes of the imbalances were found to be quite different. Japan’s imbalances in balance of payments with the U.S. in the 1980s were caused by limited access to its market and the weakening competitiveness in the U.S. manufacturing sector. However, China’s imbalances with the U.S. in the 2000s were caused by the large amount of FDI and a relatively high level of market openness.

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Rights Holder

Chen Chen

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

102 pgs

Discipline

Economics

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