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Financial Markets and Institution: The Foreign Exchange Market
Financial Markets and Institution: The Foreign Exchange Market
Financial Markets and Institution: The Foreign Exchange Market
Markets and
Institution
LECTURE 9
THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE
MARKET
Learning Outcomes
Differentiate
quotation.
Discuss
Discuss
The
Forward
transactions
involve
exchanges at some future date,
completed at the forward rate.
Interpreting Foreign
Exchange Quotations
The
Indirect quotation =
1
Direct quotation
Exchange
Rates
19902010
domestic
competitive
Benefits
Import
businesses
> export
less
Dollar
Note:
We
Foreign
Exchange
Market:
Exchange
Rates
1.
2.
3.
An
Example:
PPP
Application
Real
Works
All
Many
The
The
price levels:
Tariffs
and quotas:
increasing
goods:
increased
Productivity:
if
The
Here,
The
Lets
= Demand at E*
If
If
Explaining Changes in
Exchange Rates
To
Explaining Changes in
Exchange Rates: Increase
in iD
Demand
curve shifts
right when
iD : because
people want
to hold more
dollars
This causes
domestic
currency to
appreciate.
Explaining Changes in
Exchange Rates: Increase
in iF
Demand
curve shifts
left when iF
: because
people
want to
hold fewer
dollars
This causes
domestic
currency to
depreciate.
Demand
curve shifts
left when :
because
people want
to hold more
dollars
This causes
domestic
currency to
appreciate.
Explaining Changes in
Exchanges Rates
Similar
Explaining Changes in
Exchanges Rates (b)
References
Mishkin