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Economics for Business The Euro is the common currency of the European Monetary Union (EMU). The national currencies of the participating countries were replaced with Euro coins and bills on January 1, 2002. The countries that participate in the Euro Monetary Union (EMU) are Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, and Finland (http://europa.eu.int/eoro/entry.html). These countries irrevocably established the conversion rates

Due to the high volume of participants, either a central bank or a single individual cannot interfere with the current price against market speculation and therefore they are “price taker”. There are many theories developed by economist trying to explain how exchange rate move, but none of them has so far proved to be

of time every country or civilization has used a form of currency for trade. Mostly anything could be made into currency; weather it be a rock, printed-paper or something virtual. For instance, the bitcoin is a form of virtual currency. As a business major, looking to pursue a career in banking, I would like to point out a few points that throw red flags and concern me in regards to the bitcoin. Bitcoin is a form of decentralized currency; it is an independent online monetary system that combines

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)

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is an optimal currency area. To give an opinion on whether or not the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is an optimal currency area, first an optimal currency area must be defined. An optimal currency area was defined by Pilbeam (2013) as “A region for which it is optimal to have a common currency and a common monetary policy”. For the ECOWAS to qualify as an optimal currency area it must fulfil certain criteria, it is unlikely to fulfil

Demonetization is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. It occurs whenever there is a change of national currency: The current form or forms of money is pulled from circulation and retired, often to be replaced with new notes or coins. Demonetization refers to an economic policy where a certain currency unit ceases to be recognized or used as a form of legal tender. In other words, a currency unit still loses its legal tender status as a new one

The fundamental logic of this citation can be used to explain many events happening around us, in XXI century, the century of globalization, even the events which greatly concern an economy of a whole country, or several countries together. It is some kind of illusion to establish a strong economy with soft institutions without entering unions under modern economic circumstances. Nevertheless there are several exceptions, such as World Trade Organization, NATO, European Union, etc. and certainly

for the formation of a global currency. Then this paper looks at the issue of devaluation, and by comparing successful and unsuccessful devaluations tries to determine

A question reviewed on numerous occasions, weather the UK should join the Eurozone, considering what a currency union intakes, the benefits and costs, a judgment can be entailed weather the Eurozone would be a valid investment for an economy such as the UK. Exchange rate, capital risk, interest rates or any monetary policy and fiscal policies, shall be taken in to account when formation a judgment to weather the UK should become a member of the Eurozone. The heart of this case is revolved around

exchange rate. What did this promise imply about a country’s money supply? Money supply was limited to the amount of gold held by a country’s central bank. Any change in its holdings of gold needed to be matched by a change in the number of local currency units outstanding. 2. (ESM14, ch2-q5) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the fixed exchange rate regime? Advantages: • It provides stability in international prices for trading which reduces risk.