How is exchange rate determined. How important is the expected future exchange rate for exports and imports? 1. Introduction Exchange rate is the price of a currency expressed in another currency‚ it is one of the most important determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. Exchange rate directly affects the prices of goods in foreign trade and foreign assets prices in the internal market‚ and indirectly the price of goods for the domestic market. A higher currency makes
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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance FINS 3635 OPTIONS‚ FUTURES AND RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES Course Outline Semester 1‚ 2012 Part A: Course-Specific Information Part B: Key Policies‚ Student Responsibilities andSupport Table of Contents PART A: COURSE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS COURSE DETAILS Teaching Times and Locations Units of Credit Summary of Course Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses Student Learning Outcomes
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Characteristics of Options r Definitions and Positions: - A Call Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to purchase an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise price or strike price) - A Put Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to sell an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise/strike price) - An American Option permits the owner to exercise (=buy/sell the underlying) at any time before or at expiration. A European Option can be exercised
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CHAPTER 5 Determination of Forward and Futures Prices Practice Questions Problem 5.8. Is the futures price of a stock index greater than or less than the expected future value of the index? Explain your answer. The futures price of a stock index is always less than the expected future value of the index. This follows from Section 5.14 and the fact that the index has positive systematic risk. For an alternative argument‚ let µ be the expected return required by investors on the index so that E (
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[this book may be available as an e-book for students] MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications 4th Edition (2010) or earlier Editions‚ Amos Gilat (AG) Software: Matlab‚ student version (provided by Carey) Optional Reference Book: Options‚ Futures and Other
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Was the British Industrial Revolution good or bad for the society and the currency of the country? Was it worth all of it? This could go both ways. It could be good for making steam engines‚ and factories to produce objects more quickly. It could be bad for the pollution that was put of the factories and the waste that was dumped in rivers and landfills. It has good and bad but mostly good. The industrial revolution was a time in the 18th and 19th century where machines and all sorts of technology
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European call option with strike price of K and maturity T and buys a put with the same strike price and maturity. Describe the investor’s position. The payoff to the investor is - max (ST - K ‚ 0) + max(K - ST‚ 0) This is K- ST in all circumstances. The investor’s position is the same as a short position in a forward contract with delivery price K. 8 .4.)Explain why brokers require margins when clients write options but not when they buy options? When an investor buys an option‚ cash must
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Currency war between China and USA and its global impacts on economy. Currency War: Currency war‚ also known as competitive devaluation‚ is a condition in international affairs where countries compete against each other to achieve a relatively low exchange rate for their own currency. As the price to buy a particular currency falls so too does the real price of exports from the country. Imports become more expensive too‚ so domestic industry‚ and thus employment‚ receives a boost in demand
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Chapter 15 Quiz 15.1) A portfolio is currently worth $10 million and has a beta of 1.0. An index is currently standing at 800. Explain how a put option with a strike price of 700 can be used to provide portfolio insurance. Index goes down to 700 10*(800/700)= 8.75 million Buying put options= 10‚000‚000/800= 12‚500 If you buy the options at 800‚ the value will be 12‚500 times the index with a strike price of 700 therefore providing protection against a drop in the value of the portfolio below
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