Balance of Payments Adjustment within a Common Market

Peter Coffey and John R. Presley

Chapter 6 in European Monetary Integration, 1971, pp 61-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Balance of payments equilibrium has the same connotations for members of a common market as for non-members. At least during the next decade balance of payments equilibrium in the Common Market will be determined at the national level, rather than at the Community level. Individual countries should prevent a continuing recurrence of overall deficit or surplus on the balance of payments. This contrasts with the Community approach where equilibrium exists if the sum total of overall deficits of member countries is exactly balanced by the sum total of overall surpluses. The latter approach does not require the same degree of discipline from the individual member country. In seeking an overall balance of payments equilibrium it is not essential for the member country to maintain a bilateral payments balance with any other member of the Community or to maintain a payments balance with the rest of the Community taken together. Overall equilibrium is achieved when the external surplus earned by a member country is just sufficient to meet an internal deficit with other members of the Community, or when an internal surplus is sufficient to counteract an external deficit. This kind of equilibrium existed within the Benelux Union in that the external surplus of the Netherlands was sufficient to meet its internal deficit with Belgium and Luxembourg.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; Capital Mobility; Capital Account; Current Account Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1971
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01258-9_6

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