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If you were an exporter form an emerging country to the United States would you prefer a strong or weak dollar? Explain
If I were an exporter from an emerging country to the US, I would have preferred STRONG dollar. First let us understand what would a strong dollar mean. For simplicity, assume I am from India (currency - Indian Rupee, INR).
Suppose, the xchange rate is 1USD = 50 INR.
A strong dollar compared to INR would mean, INR is depreciating against US dollar or in other words, US dollar is appreciating against INR.
Suppose I sold my product to a company in US for 100 USD. When I converted this amount for INR, it would have given me at current exchange rate (assumed above) = 50 * 100 INR = 5000 INR. This was what I expected.
However, just became I converted the USD to INR, USD appreciated (or became stronger) say to 1 USD = 55INR. Now the amount that I would receive would still be 100 in USD terms. But, in terms of INR, new amount to be recived on converting this USD to INR would be = $100 * 55 = $5500.
This implies weakening of INR has helped me earn $5500 or a profit of $500 for 100 USD. Hence, I would like to have INR weaker or rather would prefer a stronger USD.