Assume that business investment spending rises, and the increase is funded by greater borrowing in the capital markets. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the real GDP and current international transactions balance in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?
a. Real GDP falls and current international transactions balance
becomes more negative (or less positive).
b. Real GDP rises and current international transactions balance becomes more negative (or less positive).
c. Real GDP and current international transactions balance remain the same.
d. Real GDP rises and current international transactions balance remains the same.
e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
.B
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