Discuss in brief the various exchange rate systems. DEFINITION OF EXCHANGE RATE Exchange rate is defined as the rate at which one currency may be converted into another. The exchange rate is used when simply converting one currency to another (such as for the purposes of travel to another country), or for engaging in speculation or trading in the foreign exchange market. There are a wide variety of factors which influence the exchange rate, such as interest rates,inflation, and the state of politics
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EVOLUTION OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIME: IMPACT ON MACRO ECONOMY OF BANGLADESH by Liza Fahmida A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Banking and Finance Examination Committee: Dr. Sundar Venkatesh (Chairperson) Dr. Juthathip Jongwanich Dr. Yuosre Badir Nationality: Bangladeshi Previous Degree: Master in Finance and Banking University of Dhaka Bangladesh Scholarship Donor: Bangladesh Bank Asian Institute of Technology School
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SGD. 2. What is a real exchange rate? What determines real exchange rates in the long-run? Real Exchange Rate = Nominal Exchange Rate - Inflation It’s the ratio at which any country’s own currency is equivalent to other currencies in terms of purchasing power. It discounts inflation from the nominal interest rate. It also provides a better measurement of countries exchange rates. The Monetary Authority of Singapore focused mainly on inflation and didn’t use exchange rate as a competitive tool
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foreign exchange market does not have a physical market place called the foreign exchange market. It is a mechanism through which one country's currency can be exchange i.e. bought or sold for the currency of another country. The foreign exchange market does not have any geographic location. The market comprises of all foreign exchange traders who are connected to each other through out the world. They deal with each other through telephones, telexes and electronic systems. The foreign exchange market
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chapter describes how exchange rates are determined under four different mechanisms--free float, managed float, fixed-rate system, and target-zone system. Under the latter three systems, governments intervene in the currency markets in one form or another to affect the exchange rate. Key Points 1. Under the latter three systems, which involve varying degrees of central bank intervention, the real exchange rate is liable to change, with important implications for exchange risk management (as
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Questions: 1. How did the fixed exchange rate against the dollar that Argentina adopted in the 1990s benefit the economy? By adopting a fixed exchange rate, the government reduced uncertainties for all economic agents in the country. As businesses had the perfect knowledge that prices are fixed and therefore not going to change, hence they could plan ahead in their productions. This also helps the government maintain low inflation, which in the long run should keep interest rates down and stimulate increased
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Business Economics GM545 December 7, 2010 Exercise 1 Economists break unemployment down into three distinct varieties - Structural, Frictional, and Seasonal. Structural unemployment is unemployment that comes from there being an absence of demand for the workers that are available. The two major reasons that cause an absence of demand for workers in a particular industry are: 1) Changes in technology, as personal computers replaced typewriters, typewriter factories shut down. Workers in typewriter
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Q1: Balance of payment: When a country trade with another countries, there are records of all that transaction known as payment of balance, the benefit of having such a record is to know how much money is spent on import and export in goods and services. BOP consist in: 1- Capital account: monitoring of the short term and long term transaction among the UK and the whole world in (saving and investment) with a surplus of 100 million in 2012 and it contains: * Direct investment: when an
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interest rates by decreasing the Thai money supply. 2. Did the intervention by the Thai government constitute sterilized or nonsterilized intervention? What is the difference between the two types of intervention? Which type do you think would be more effective in increasing the value of the baht? Why? The intervention by the Thai government constituted nonsterilized intervention. In using a nonsterilized intervention, a central bank intervenes in the foreign exchange market without
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along your route (i.e. Bretton Woods, Smithsonian, Jamaica, Plaza, and the Louvre Accords, etc), trace this evolution from its origins in the gold standard, through the fixed and the floating exchange rate systems to the managed float (target zone) system we are living in today. Answer: Since known history of mankind exchange of goods and services of value had been going on between individuals, groups and tribes/nations. By the passage of time it developed through barter system to gold coins etc
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