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Global Business Today 8th Edition by Charles Hill
Edition 8ISBN: 978-0077801922Global Business Today 8th Edition by Charles Hill
Edition 8ISBN: 978-0077801922 Exercise 23
Two countries, Great Britain and the United States, produce just one good: beef. Suppose the price of beef in the United States is $2.80 per pound and in Britain it is ?3.70 per pound.
a. According to PPP theory, what should the dollar/pound spot exchange rate be?
b. Suppose the price of beef is expected to rise to $3.10 in the United States and to £4.65 in Britain. What should the one-year forward dollar/pound exchange rate be?
c. Given your answers to parts a and b , and given that the current interest rate in the United States is 10 percent, what would you expect the current interest rate to be in Britain?
a. According to PPP theory, what should the dollar/pound spot exchange rate be?
b. Suppose the price of beef is expected to rise to $3.10 in the United States and to £4.65 in Britain. What should the one-year forward dollar/pound exchange rate be?
c. Given your answers to parts a and b , and given that the current interest rate in the United States is 10 percent, what would you expect the current interest rate to be in Britain?
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a) The exchange rate is $2.80=3.70 pound...
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