Questions tagged [exchange]
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If the BOP is always equal to 0 then why would a trade imbalance cause currencies to fluctuate?
I am a bit confused in interpreting the correlation between a trade deficit/surplus & currency depreciation/appreciation. Considering BOP always equals 0 and a outflow in the current account is ...
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Price setting for a pure exchange economy, with two goods and two agents, with possible different utility functions that depends on total consumption
Consider a pure exchange economy comprised of two agents with differentiable utility functions that are strictly increasing and strictly concave. There are only two goods in this economy (x,y) and ...
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Is there an alternative to currency to facilitate exchange of goods and services?
Say I have collected a bunch of seashells. Tom wants to have my seashells. Therefore the seashells have value and I have just created wealth. And so Tom buys my seashells for \$10. But even though I ...
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Is there any pressure to keep currency exchange rates around 1?
I notice that for any pair of currencies, the exchange rates seem to stay around 1 (as opposed to, say, 1,000,000). This is no longer the case if one country experiences an economic crisis that ...
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Can stock exchange workers go on strike?
Today, trade in the stock exchange of my country Israel (TASE) was cancelled due to a union dispute. So clearly, in Israel the answer to the question in the title is "yes". I can't say this comes as a ...
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How did the Exchange Rate Mechanism work?
The Exchange Rate Mechanism was introduced by the European Economic Community in 1979.
It fixes the Exchange rates between currencies to a specific margin.
But how does it do this?
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How to calculate the intercept of an indifference curve in an Edgeworth box?
Consider an exchange economy with two goods (Good 1 and 2) and two individuals ($A$ and $B$):
$A$'s utility function is $u_A(x_{A_1}, x_{A_2}) = 2x_{A_1} + 5x_{A_2}$
$B$'s utility function is $u_B(...
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Empty edgeworth box [closed]
Can a empty edgeworth box be a pareto set? What kind of economy would be describe in this situation?
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How is sending money out of a country draining its economy?
From this article:
Every year, Mexicans working in the U.S. send at least $20 billion back to Mexico in the form of remittances, placing a huge drain on our economy.
But I don't see what negative ...
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REER ULC vs. REER PPP
Can someone give an example and an exponation of how a currency may be undervalued when considering its REER (real exchange rate) in PPP terms, but overvalued when looking at the REER based on ULC (...
