Brief Principles of Macroeconomics...
Brief Principles of Macroeconomics...
A case study in the chapter analyzed purchasing-power parity for several countries using the price of Big Macs. Here are data for a few more countries:
a. For each country, compute the predicted exchange rate of the local currency per U.S. dollar. (Recall that the U.S. price of a Big Mac was $4.93.)
b. According to purchasing-power parity, what is the predicted exchange rate between the Hungarian forint and the Canadian dollar? What is the actual exchange rate?
c. How well does the theory of purchasing-power parity explain exchange rates?
(a):
Computation of predicted exchange rate.
If X is the unit of foreign currency per Big Mac and dollar per Big Mac is 3.57, the predicted exchange rate can be found out by dividing 3.57 from unit of foreign currency per Bog Mac (X). This means, it got
Predicted exchange rate can be calculated by using the following formula:
Substitute the respective values in Equation (1) to calculate the predicted exchange rate in Chili.
(b)
Computation of predicted exchange rate.
(c)
Relevance of exchange rate.
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