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ECN 438 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Exchange rates are expressed as: - answerthe price of one unit of foreign currency expressed in terms of the domestic currency. A term that categorizes patterns of exchange rate behavior is known as: - answerexchange rate regimes The interest...

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ECN 438 Final Exam Questions and Answers
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Exchange rates are expressed as: - answer✔the price of one unit of foreign currency expressed in

terms of the domestic currency.


A term that categorizes patterns of exchange rate behavior is known as: - answer✔exchange rate

regimes


The interest parity condition requires that: - answer✔the home interest rate minus its expected

rate of currency depreciation (against the foreign currency) will equal the foreign interest rate


A flexible floating exchange rate system is one in which the: - answer✔government makes no

attempt to fix it against any base currency.

As the expected future spot rate moves closer to the spot rate, uncovered interest parity indicates

that: - answer✔interest rates should converge.


When a nation's currency appreciates, it purchases _______ units of a foreign currency and its

currency is said to _________. - answer✔more, strengthen

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When we look at exchange rates between two countries, what is the relationship between the

exchange rate expressed in units of the domestic currency and the exchange rate expressed in

units of the foreign currency? - answer✔One is always the reciprocal of the other.


If the U.S. interest rate is 4% per year and the UK interest rate is 9% per year, what will happen?

- answer✔The UK Pound depreciates 5% in one year.


The situation in which the difference in interest rates between two currencies is equal to the

expected change in the spot rate over the same period is known as: - answer✔uncovered interest

parity


In equilibrium, the expected future spot rate equals - answer✔current forward rate


Suppose China pegs its currency, the yuan, against the US dollar at a level that leaves the yuan

undervalues on a PPP basis. Suppose also that the US Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy

so as to keep the general price level in the US stable. Then, according to PPP theory, which of

the following adjustments would occur to restore PPP equilibrium? - answer✔China would go

through a period of inflation.

Suppose a Big Mac sells for $6.50 in the US and 5.75GBP in Britain. If the market exchange rate

is .80 pounds per dollar, what is true? - answer✔The dollar is undervalued against the pound on

the basis of Big Mac purchasing power parity.

Since 1995, the avg annual rate of inflation across the entire Mexican economy has been 8% but,

because of improvement in labor productivity within the manufacturing sector, the rate of

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inflation within the sector of the Mexican economy that produces traded goods has been only 3%

per year. In the US, there has been a uniform rate of inflation throughout the economy of 2% per

year. Given this information, which of the following statements is most consistent with PPP

theory? - answer✔Nominal peso per dollar rate = increase by 1%, real peso per dollar rate =

decrease by 5%.

E: nominal exchange rate between the S. Korean won and Japanese yen (won per yen). q:

represents the real exchange rate, measure as the price of Japanese goods relative to S. Korean

goods. According to PPP, which of the following would happen if the only difference between

the economies of the two countries was that S. Korea had more general price inflation than did

Japan? - answer✔E would increase and q would not change.


From 1950-1970, Germany pegged or fixed its currency (the mark) against the US dollar. Over

this period, the average annual rate of inflation in the US was 3%. Because of the rapid

improvements in labor productivity within the German manufacturing sector, the real mark per

dollar exchange rate fell at an average rate of 2% per year. Given all of this information, what

must have been the average inflation rate in Germany over this period? - answer✔=2-3 = 5%

inflation rate in Germany.

E represents the nominal exchange rate between the S. Korean won and the Japanese yen,

measured as won per yen. The symbol q represents the real exchange rate, measured as the price

of Japanese goods relative to (divided by) the price of S. Korean goods. According to PPP,

which of the following would happen if the two countries had the same overall inflation rate, but

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