1 Question One (a) What do you understand by the term Foreign Exchange Market? (b) Does Tanzania need to have a foreign exchange market? Explain. (c) Identify and explain the role of each agent who is participating in the foreign exchange market. Question Two (a) Define and give an example of (i) Direct quote between Tanzanian shilling (TZS) and Kenyan shilling (KES)‚where Tanzania is designated as a home country. (ii) Indirect quote between Tanzanian shilling (TZS) and Rwandese Franc (RWF)
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2012824256 Question: Examine data from the website www.oanda.com‚ USD‚ pound‚ and euro for one month of April 2013 until May 20th 2013(obtained from historical exchange rate) and discuss comment the fund for the period. What is your forecast for these currencies for the month of June 2013 and why? 1) RM/USD (Direct Quotation) The following graph shows the historical trend of ask price for the selected currency pair and time period. Note the ask price is selling price of the bank offered. According
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATE SENSITIVITY AND STOCK PRICE : ESTIMATING ECONOMIC EXPOSURE OF TURKISH COMPANIES INTRODUCTION Variability in exchange rate is a major source of macroeconomic uncertainity affecting firms. After the 1970 ’s‚ the rapid expansion in international trade and adoption of floating exchange rate regimes by many countries led to increase exchange rate volatility. The firm ’s exposure to exchange rate risk increased. In the literature three types of exposure under floating exchange rate
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to join the Single European Currency? The single European Currency is the currency used by the institution of the EU and it’s the official currency of the Eurozone consisting 18 of the 28 member states. On 1 January 1999‚ the Euro was introduced as the single European currency‚ but today‚ the UK is still using the Sterling Pounds‚ and if the UK join the single European Currency‚ there may be some advantages and disadvantages for the UK firms. If we share a currency with the rest of Europe‚ there
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Exchange rates are the value of one currency with respect to another‚ for the purpose of conversion. They affect investment levels‚ via the cash rate and values of domestic assets; trades‚ via prices and the terms of trade (TOT); liabilities‚ via currency appreciation or depreciation and the valuation effect‚ and trades. Exchange rates are influenced by government policies in the short term and market forces in the long term. Since the Australian dollar (AUD) was floated in 1983 it has experienced
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number of developing countries have witnessed chronic inflation‚ a period of persistent hyperinflation that could last for years. Several attempts to reduce inflation were sought and a nominal anchor was used namely‚ the exchange rate. Such stabilization programs were known as Exchange-Rate Based Stabilizations (ERBS). “A nominal anchor is a constraint on the value of domestic money‚ and in some form it is a necessary element in successful policy regimes” (Mishkin 1999). So a nominal anchor is needed to
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government to accept whatever volatility of prices may occur in a free market? “Monopolistic competition is the worst of all possible worlds‚ failing to achieve either the pricing efficiency created by the intensity of perfect competition or the scale economies and innovation of oligopoly and monopoly.” Explain what is meant by monopolistic competition‚ and why the majority of firms in Singapore are operating in such a market. (10) Does the existence of so many monopolistically competitive firms
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Currency Wars When we think of war‚ it is easy to imagine soldiers‚ guns‚ tanks and perhaps a bloody chaotic war zone. Then‚ when we think of trade‚ exchange rates‚ foreign exchange‚ currency and its policies what comes to mind--War? Probably not. We are however‚ “in the midst of an international currency war…this threatens us because it takes away our competitiveness” (Mantega). A currency war can be defined as a “competitive devaluation‚ [a] condition in international affairs where countries
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Analyze the impact of the fixed exchange rate regime on the Barbados economy in the following context: • Foreign/ External Debt Management • Political Stability • Domestic Interest Rates The Barbadian Central Bank has maintained a fixed exchange rate regime since the 1970’s as a core foundation of its macroeconomic policy. A fixed exchange rate provides stability in international prices but restricts a country from pursuing policies to guide the economy to full employment or stimulate growth
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Exchange rates‚ Pakistan’s GDP and KSE’s prices: A relationship analysis I. Introduction Exchange rates‚ GDP and KSE index 2.1 Exchange rates (ER) are not autonomous in nature‚ these are determined by the forces of demand for and supply of major medium of currency (mostly US dollar in Pakistan) used in imports and exports trade. Whereas the volumes of imports and changes therein seem to be the major source to determine demand for US dollar in Pakistan‚ the value and changes in exports
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