The Australian Exchange Rate

economic literature on the relationship between interest rates and exchange rates in full, it will be useful to briefly discuss some of the important theories of exchange rate determination. There are many theories such as the theory of Purchasing Power Purchase Agreement (PPP), the Flexible Price Monetary Model (FPM), Sticky Price Monetary Model (SPM), Real Interest Rate Differential Model (RIRD), and Portfolio Balance Theory (PBT) of exchange rate determination. The PPP to maintain equality between…

Chapter 5 Exchange Rate Systems questions 1. How can you quantify currency risk in a floating exchange rate system? Answer: To characterize the risk of a currency position, you must try to characterize the conditional distribution of the future exchange rate changes. With floating exchange rates, historical information provides useful information about this distribution. For example, you can use data to measure the average historical dispersion (standard deviation or volatility)…

The Canadian dollar has significantly appreciated against the U.S. dollar since the beginning of 2000. The CAD/USD exchange rate (currency in USD) increased from 0.686 to 1.015 as of March 18, 2011. There was a trend of CAD appreciation in 2003-2008, followed by a rapid depreciation in the second half of 2008. Since the beginning of 2009, CAD has risen sharply and has been trading about at par with USD for the last two years. The recent CAD appreciation was caused by a number of factors and lead…

THE IMPACTS OF EXCHANGES RATE CHANGES ON TRADE BALANCE: THE CASE OF VIETNAM 1. Background of the study Among various subjects in the field of international trade and monetary policy, the relationship between real exchange rate and trade balance is one of the most popular topics, attracting extensive studies in last couple decades. Although a lot of efforts have been made, international trade economists have yet come up with a convergence point in theory to explain the moving direction of trade…

Exchange Rate Risk If a company or individual investor had a $90,000 (USD) portfolio, it would only be worth $69,651 in Euro because the USD is 1.00 against the Euro of 0.7739 (Historical Exchange Rates). US Dollar vs Euro 2012 Euro $90,000 value 2011 Euro $90,000 value 2010 Euro $90,000 value 14Sep 0.7739 69,651 13Sep 0.7763 69,867 12Sep 0.7811 70,299 11Sep 0.7821 70,389 10Sep 0.7802 70,218 9-Sep 0.7801 70,209 8-Sep…

Differentiation Financial Hedging International Finance in Practice: Porsche Powers Profit with Currency Plays CASE APPLICATION: Exchange Risk Management at Merck Summary MINI CASE: Economic Exposure of Albion Computers PLC How to Measure Economic Exposure 1. Suppose the U.S. dollar substantially depreciates against the Japanese yen. The change in exchange rate a) Can have a significant economic consequences for U.S. firms. b) Can have a significant economic consequences for Japanese…

INTRODUCTION An exchange rate is the price at which one country's currency must pay in order to buy one unit of another county’s currency on the foreign exchange market. The concept of exchange rate mechanism may be explained as the technique employed by the governments in order to manage and control their respective currencies in the context of the other major currencies of the world. There are 5 exchange rate mechanisms established which each of it is meant to be followed by government regarding…

Monetary Policy and Nominal Exchange Rates 1. a) Federal Open Market Committee used to maintain a steady increase of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet based on a policy of quantitative easing, which involves buying a considerable amount of assets, in order to increase the money supply…

Exchange Rates Missing Two Graphs “For many years it has been believed that if countries import more than they export and so have a deficit on the current account of the balance of payments then their currencies will tend to fall in value. Yet over the last two years the dollar has been a strong currency even though USA has had a record current account deficit. How can this fact be explained? What does it tell us about the factors, which determine exchange rates? What policy decisions with…

Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms March 07, 2009 Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms Hard currencies are a currency, usually from a highly industrialized country, that is widely accepted around the world as a form of payment for goods and services. A hard currency is expected to remain relatively stable through a short period of time, and to be highly liquid in the forex market (Investopedia, 2009). The forex market is the largest, most liquid market in the world…