Date of Award
6-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
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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Recommended Citation
Chen, Chen, "Imbalances in Balance of Payments with the U.S.: Japan and China Compared" (2018). Restricted Access ETDs. 28.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/restrictedetd/28
Provenance
Received from author
Rights holder
Chen Chen
File size
102 pgs
Copyright date
2018
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Economics