The long-run purchasing power parity theory suggests that
currency rates will track the real exchange rate over time. Suggest
a strategy where you could use this to predict the movement of
currencies:
explain the difference between the real exchange rate
and the purchasing power parity(PPP) exchange rate, and discuss a
situation in which you would use each of these different exchange
rates.
a) Under purchasing power parity, what’s the correlation between
the inflation rate and the exchange rate?
b) What’s the difference between a European option and an
American option?
c) What’s a foreign currency futures contract?
d) How can forward rate agreements be used to hedge against
interest rate risk?
e) What happens to the option price in case the option expires
worthless and in case the investor chooses to exercise it?
Purchasing Power Parity and Monetary Models of Exchange
Rates
How does the Dornbusch overshooting model indicate exchange rate
volatility and large exchange rate movements? What problems may
this create based on the role of expectations on current exchange
rate movements due to monetary policy, and the role of exchange
rate movements in asset prices?
Purchasing power parity is a neoclassical economic theory that
states that the exchange rate between two countries is equal to the
ratio of the currencies' respective purchasing power.
The OECD defines GNP as "an aggregate measure of production
equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and
institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and
minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their
outputs).”
The gross national income (GNI) is the...