Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The IS Curve for an Open economy

The IS Curve for an Open economy

In introduction to Economics, we covered the open economy.
We saw that in an open economy, planned expenditure is now
C + I + G + X –M. (X-M) or net exports (NX) is affected by the
domestic country’s income (Y), income in the foreign country (Y*)
as well as the real exchange rate (EP*/P).

When plotted against income, the NX curve is negatively sloped. Why?

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