Suppose a Japanese car costs 150,000 yen, a similar American car costs $25,000, and a dollar can buy 80 yen. (a) What is the nominal exchange rate? (b) What is the real exchange rate? (c) Based on your answers above, does the purchasing-power-parity hold? Explain why or why not.
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Suppose a Japanese car costs 150,000 yen, a similar American car costs $25,000, and a dollar can buy 80 yen.
(a) What is the nominal exchange rate?
(b) What is the real exchange rate?
(c) Based on your answers above, does the purchasing-power-parity hold? Explain why or why not.
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- (a) Suppose a computer sells for US$1,200 in the U.S. and for £855 in London. If the exchange rate is £0.65 per dollar, is there any arbitrage (profit opportunity)? Explain (b). (not connected to part a). If the Euro price of one Canadian dollar was 0.770 in 2003 and the exchange rate adjusted to 1.176 Canadian dollar per Euro in 2004, did the Euro appreciate or depreciate against the Canadian dollar. Explain and show your computation.(a) If the exchange rate changes from $1.75 = £1 to $1.72 to £1; What does this mean for the dollar? For the pound? What if the exchange rate changes from $1.80 £1 to $1.84 £1? (b) How will a depreciation of the dollar affect the US net export?a) Suppose a computer sells for US$1,200 in the U.S. and for £855 in London. If the exchange rate is £65 per dollar, is there any arbitrage (profit opportunity)? Explain (b) If the Canadian dollar price of one Euro was C$1.30 in 2003 and the exchange rate adjusted to 0.85 Euro per C$ in 2004, did the Canadian dollar appreciate or depreciate against the Euro. Explain.
- Please assist with D & E: What is the impact of each of the following changes (other variables remaining unchanged) on the real exchange rate. (a) The Consumer Price Index (which measures the price level) in the United States rises by 4 percent. (b) The Consumer Price Index in Jamaica rises by 9 percent. (c) The two Consumer Price Index changes above occur at the same time. (d) The nominal exchange rate moves from 86 to 90 for a U.S. dollar. (e) The nominal exchange rate depreciates by 10 percent at the same time that local inflation is 10 percent and the U.S. price level is stable. Please assist with D & E:Assume that the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition holds. Also assume that the US interest rate is less than the UK interest rate. Given this information, we know that investors would expect (a) the pound to depreciate. (b) the pound to appreciate. (c) the dollar-pound exchange rate to remain fixed. (d) the U.S. interest rate to fall. (e) none of the above.State the impact of each of the following changes (other variables remaining unchanged) on the real exchange rate. (a) The Consumer Price Index (which measures the price level) in the United States rises by 4 percent. (b) The Consumer Price Index in Jamaica rises by 9 percent. (c) The two Consumer Price Index changes above occur at the same time. (d) The nominal exchange rate moves from 86 to 90 for a U.S. dollar. (e) The nominal exchange rate depreciates by 10 percent at the same time that local inflation is 10 percent and the U.S. price level is stable
- Question 5 (a) Can you identify any implications of purchasing power parity? (b) Examine the exchange rate in your country compared to the Caribbean region. Do you see any large differentials or variations in the exchange rates? (c) Do you think LOOP really works? Give a reason for your answer? (d) If a can of spam costs $2 in the US and 6 pesos in Mexico, what would be the peso/dollar exchange rate if PPP holds? 5. If inflation is 3.5% in US and 7% in Mexico. What will happen to the peso/dollar exchange rate?(b) Suppose the interest parity condition holds. Also assume that the one-year interest rate in the United States is 6% and that the one-year interest rate in Canada is 6%. What does this imply about the current versus future expected exchange rate (for the U.S. and Canadian dollars)?For each prompt below, carefully and thoroughly follow the directions. For the graphs, be certain to accurately label all axes, curves, and points as appropriate. Show your work for any calculations. (a) Draw the foreign exchange market for euros in terms of pounds. Label the equilibrium exchange rate (e1), the equilibrium quantity (Q1), and the current exchange rate (ec). Assume that there is a shortage of the euro at the current rate. (b) Assume the current exchange rate for the Chinese yuan in terms of the U.S. dollar is $0.20 per yuan. Based on this information, draw the foreign exchange market for dollars. Assume the market is in equilibrium. The United States and Mexico are trading partners. (c) Using side-by-side graphs of the exchange market for the U.S. dollar and the Mexican peso, show the impact of an increase in the demand for pesos. (d) Based on the change indicated in part (c), is the U.S. dollar appreciating or depreciating? (e) If the United States began…
- If the exchange rate between the US Dollar ($) and the Euro (E) goes from being $7/E to $6/E, we say that the US Dollar has __________ relative to the Euro. a) appreciated b) arbitraged c) stagnated d) depreciatedSuppose that the US interest rate is 5.4% per annum and the interest rate in Japan is 2.8% per annum. The value of the US dollar in the spot market is ¥74 what must the forward exchange rate be (yen per US dollar) for There to be no risk less profit? (Enter the numerical value only rounding to one decimal place) The forward rate you calculate above will be different and different from the spot rate explain why it cannot be the sameSuppose the nominal exchange rate (given as foreign currency per unit of U.S. currency as in class) rises. If purchasing power parity holds, this could mean that domestic prices __________________ or foreign prices ________________ with all else unchanged. Group of answer choices A) increased, decreased B) decreased, decreased C) increased, increased D) decreased, increased