this paper is to discuss and critically evaluate the theory and empirical evidence relating to the ‘law of one price’ and the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP). Section I explains the concept underpinning the PPP and the law of one price. Section II involves a critical evaluation of the theory and empirical evidence relating to Section I. Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price PPP doctrine has a long history in economics and was propounded in 1918 by the Swedish economist‚ Gustav Cassel
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FACULTY OF ECONOMICAL SCIENCE Big Mac Currencies (The 2002 Big Mac Index) Foundation of Economics Economics Efficiency International Investments Presentation Paper October 19‚ 2012 Chisinau 2012 Foundation of Economics THE BIG MAC index The Big Mac is the world’s most popular sandwich‚ was created in 1968 by a McDonald’s franchise in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. While most people see the Big Mac as a sandwich‚ economists also see that as a consumer good
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Purchasing Power Parity‚ and How it Determines the Value of the Dollar Course: BBUS 452‚ International Trade Finance Professor: Giuseppe Liberatore Group Members: Pamella De Lima Ishy Carlos Guerrero Ricardo Iraheta Reyes Ann-Marie Mlinac Literature Review “Is Purchasing Power Parity a Useful Guide to the dollar?” This article was our starting article which gave us the idea of researching the Purchasing Power Parity. It identifies that the Purchasing Power Parity should work in
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BIG MAC INDEX WHAT IS A BIG MAC INDEX? The big Mac index is a theory dealing with PPP purchase power parity. The big Mac index was created by the Economist based on the Purchase Power theory‚ the first step understands what the Purchase power theory is. Here is a brief example to better understand the purchase power theory; suppose that one US dollar is currently in the market for ten Argentinean pesos. In the United States a soccer ball costs $40 while in Argentina they sell the same soccer
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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look at the theory behind Purchasing Power Parity PPP‚ and the potential reasons why PPP may not hold. I will then be looking at the value of a can of Coca-Cola in several different countries and demonstrating the variance in price and whether PPP holds‚ therefore giving an indication on whether or not a currency is over or undervalued in relation to a can of coke. I will also be assessing reasons for this variance and relating this back to the theory. Purchasing Power Parity is based on the “law of
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Running Head: Purchasing Power Parity Testing the Evidence of Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange Rates Abstract Investment banks and foreign exchange dealers play important roles in the foreign currency markets. For purchasing power parity to hold in the long run‚ real exchange rates must be stationary. At the heart of the movement of foreign exchange rates is the change in a country’s balance of payments. If purchasing power parity held‚ then the real exchange rate would always equal
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There has been a long standing controversy among the economist about the validity of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) in the long run. The parity reveals that prices in two different economies should be identical to each other when they expressed in terms of the same currency. It is a central building block in the monetary models of exchange rate determination. One of the most common practices‚ to test the validity of PPP is through unit root test of real exchange rate. In this paper
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relationship affect Blades’ Thai revenue and costs given that the baht is freely floating? What is the net effect of this relationship on Blades? ANSWER: The relationship between exchange rates and relative inflation rates can be explained by the purchasing power parity (PPP) theory. When one country’s inflation rate is high as compared to another country‚ then the demand for country’s currency with high inflation rate declines. Due to high inflation rates‚ the goods of the country become more expensive and
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Purchasing Power Parity Analysis Paul Streeten defying Purchasing Power as: “The amount of goods and services bought by a unit of currency. It is therefore the reciprocal of a price index: when prices go up‚ purchasing power falls”. In addition‚ he establishes that Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is the theory that exchange rates between currencies are determined‚ in equilibrium or in the long run‚ by the amount of goods and services that a currency can buy. If £1 in Britain buys what $1.50 buys in
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