Questions tagged [currency-exchange]
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What does 'currency convertibility' mean?
As a student with almost zero background in economics, I've been struggling to comprehend the notion of the currency convertibility. Most of the definitons I've found online talk about the ease with ...
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Relation between foreign currency reserve and exchange rate and others
What is the relationship between foreign currency reserve(USD) of a country with it's exchange rate (against USD), and also with export and import strength ?
And if it's too complicated to explain, ...
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Are foreign currency exchange rate transitive?
For a given period, if USD strengthened against EUR by 5%, and EUR strengthened against GBP by 3%, does that imply that USD must have strengthened against GBP by ~8%?
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Why is the Australian dollar, often viewed by traders as a proxy for the Chinese economy?
The Australian dollar, often viewed by traders as a proxy for the
Chinese economy, gained 0.3 per cent against its US counterpart.
From: https://www.ft.com/content/b18d1c56-cf75-11e9-b018-...
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Local vs. foreign currency denomination for Emerging Market Bonds
For emerging market governments, why is it safer to issue bonds in local currencies than in foreign currencies to raise money? Given that both are invested in by foreign investors, couldn't both ...
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Effect of interest rates on currencies
I always understood that high interest rates in country A attract investors and cause the currency to appreciate. However, the interest rate parity theory suggests that high interest rates weaken a ...
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Currency board, why the fluctuation in local currency
I have very basic question about currency boards:
Assume that a country floats a new local currency "N" with the currency board model. It uses USD as the reserve currency. To begin with 1 N = 1 USD. ...
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Purchasing power of currency abroad
Say you have two countries A and B. Suppose we have a situation where country A's currency can purchase much more in country B than the other way round. What causes this phenomenen?
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Are currencies equilibrating?
I was travelling recently and realised that dollars, euros, British pounds and Swiss francs all have more or less the same worth (i.e. 1 dollar $\cong $1 pound $\cong$ 1 euro $\cong $ 1 chf). This was ...
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Currencies fixed to gold
Based on the quoted section & example below:
Why would the Franc or USD fall in price vs the other if they are both fixed to gold; why would having less gold cause paper money to contract?
Why ...
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Can increase of NEER cause higher inflation?
I´m trying to find siutable econometrics model for explaining inflation during financial crisis and after. My final model shows that if NEERnominal effective exchange rate) increases, the inflation ...
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Why would a common currency such as the Euro that can't be devalued be incentive for banks to lend money to a country?
I'm reading an article that is claiming that when the Euro was created, banks began lending more money to countries than before because as the Euro is a common currency across many countries one ...
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How is it possible that all currency exchange rates are fixed w.r.t. to each other?
I wondered if it would be beneficial to exchange a currency through one or more "in-between" currencies.
For example: instead of trading Russian Ruble (RUB) to Euro's (EUR), one would trade from RUB ...
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Why Yen grew stronger after North Korea's H-bomb threat? [duplicate]
Financial markets have had only a muted reaction to the dispute in
recent months, but on Friday assets regarded as havens for investors
jumped immediately after the news of North Korea’s latest H-...
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What are some benefits of local currencies?
Lets say that we have in my country Greece there is an Island Crete that it has big production (agriculture,small banks etc.) and produces big surplus compared with other parts of Greece and the ...
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exchange rate and domestic money supply part II
This question is related to the answer to the question
exchange rate and domestic money supply
It is said that the 'CB purchases foreign currency on currency market'.
Is it possible that some of ...
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Exchange rate and domestic money supply
It seems an obvious fact (not explained by authors but stated) that when a Central Bank purchases foreign currency (to stabilise its own), the domestic money supply goes up.
It seems to me that the ...
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Balance of Trade - Currency devaluation in a price taker economy
How will a real exchange rate devaluation affect Balance of Trade, if an economy is a price taker in world markets for both export and import?
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what in real terms causes one nations currency to be more valuable than another?
I would like to understand in atomic terms what makes the value of one nation's currency change with regard to another. Read that, without citing complex terminology but in basic terms.
Obviously, ...
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Is there a difference between buying a currency and selling the currency to be converted to?
I'm not an economist. I'm looking to exchange my CAD to EUR. I watched the rates on a exchange office, and I found something strange:
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What's the equation of currency fluctuation?
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Today the rate of EUR is 82.09 in BDT ( Bangladeshi Currency) and two hours later it's 82.50 ( I hope, it's increasing). But why does this fluctuation just keeps happening? Looks like the ...
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How do currency traders resolve imbalances in the demand for different currencies?
Countries trade different amounts of goods that are inherently imbalanced. How do currency traders resolve these imbalances in the demand for different currencies? For example....
Imagine we have two ...
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How does Egypt prevent people from arbitraging their currency?
Apparently Egypt uses a fixed exchange rate so there is a substantial difference between the government rate for the Egyptian pound and the price on the street. What prevents someone from just buying ...
