Questions tagged [foreign-exchange]
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Mechanics of Sterilized Intervention?
I'm looking to see if someone can help improve my understanding of sterilized intervention in FX markets.
My intuition/understanding is:
Assume that the domestic currency is depreciating, perhaps ...
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When the country's currency is falling, does it make sense for Central Bank to intervene beyond curbing Volatity?
Consider a country who have more imports than exports. If the country's currency is falling badly with reference to the dollar (and the dollar is the main trading currency for the said country), then ...
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Effect of Import Tariff on Supply of Currency on Foreign Exchange Market
I'm struggling with this question below for my macroeconomics course.
If Argentina were to impose a tariff on its imports, how will the supply of Argentina's currency and its exchange rate be ...
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Reasons and mechanisms of Deutsch Mark revaluation in 1968
In November 1968, large inflows of foreign currency into the Bundesbank prompted Germany to enact a "pseudo - revaluation" with a special tax on exports and tax allowance on imports.
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During the Covid Pandemic why did the EURO appreciate against the USD even though during recessions the USD is supposed to rise as a safe-haven?
During recessions everyone flocks to USD as a safe-haven currency. However, during the pandemic quite the opposite happened in terms of EUR/USD and the Euro appreciated against the USD all the way ...
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How does US inflation impact dollarized nations?
For instance, would a high inflation rate on the US have any impact on countries that use the US dollar as their only legal tender, eg Ecuador or El Salvador?
I often hear that high US inflation will ...
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What are the macroeconomic options available to China for resolving the Evergrande bubble?
Partly inspired by this Noah Smith article.
I was talking with a friend and we were trying to itemize what options might be available to the Chinese government to resolve the collapse of Evergrande.
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How do currency boards maintain a 100% foreign reserve backing in the presence of fractional reserve banking?
Under a currency board system, money in circulation has to be 100% backed by foreign reserves. Suppose the domestic currency (A\$) is 100% backed by a foreign currency (B\$), with a fixed 1:1 ratio. ...
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What is the impact of money "sent" to another country?
I've been thinking about this a lot and I am not sure I have understood correctly. I was thinking about, for example, migrant workers who send a portion of their income back home, or wealthy ...
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The Crisis of Argentina
newbie here.
Q1 - What needs to be done by the Argentinian government for their currency to regain back its strength?
Q2 - Why has the Argentine Peso depreciated against the U.S Dollar for more than ...
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Exposure of two companies in a transaction involving an FX option
An American company $A$ has sold a manufactured product to a German company $B$, and they agree for the payment of 100,000 EUR in 1 year.
What type of exposure does $B$ have?
What type of exposure ...
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How would a "one-way" fixed exchange rate backed by destroying foreign currency work?
Note: This question may seem really pointless, but it's actually in the context of a cryptocurrency idea I am developing, but I posed it this way as the question is not really about cryptocurrencies ...
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Evaluating the return of a trading strategy on forex markets
Which measure should I use to evaluate the returns generated with a trading strategy based on announcements of macro-economic news on forex markets.
I thought about the Sharpe-ratio, however I do not ...
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What's the equation of currency fluctuation?
Preamble:
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 does foreign exchange settlement work?
How does the settlement of trades in foreign exchange work?
For example, if I am a large company with money in dollars and I buy another currency like Deutschmarks with my dollars, how does the money ...
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Which foreign currency has had the least amount of inflation over the last 50 years?
I found this table that lists currency exchange rates relative to the US dollar. https://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf
I noticed some currencies have increased in value relative to the dollar and ...
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How is the PBOC exchange reference rate set in China?
For instance, say the PBOC decides that they will set the rate at $1=7CNY. Is it just an announcement by the PBOC whereby now all Chinese banks/financial institutions have to follow this fixed ...
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difference between "crawling like arrangement" and "stabilized arrangement"
What is the difference between "crawling like arrangement" and "stabilized arrangement" ?
what about margins ? both less than + or -1% ?
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How does a country with lesser exports than imports get the foreign exchange to fund the excess?
Let's take a developing country.
Assume it's exports, tourism revenue, repatriation by workers working abroad all totally contribute 100$ of forex for the country per year.
And it's imports are 110$.
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Why Developing countries, especially exporters are most vulnerable to strong US Dollar?
Developing countries, especially exporters such as Argentina and
Turkey, are among the most vulnerable, says Harvard economics
professor Jeffrey Frankel.
Excerpt from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
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Inflation or CPI times CURRENCY/DOLLAR rate?
Is there a database which follows the inflation or cpi MULTIPLIED by the forex rate. In order to calculate the change in cost of living around the world relative to ONE, NORMALISED base currency, ...
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Why is the supply curve in the foreign-currency exchange market vertical?
In the book 'Economics' by Mankiw and Taylor the demand and supply curves on the foreign-currency exchange market are shown as follows:
The supply equals the Net Capital Outflow (NCO). I would have ...
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Size US Capital Account
I am not able to find the size of the capital account within the balance of payments for the US. Only "net" numbers, does anyone know the size of both sides of this account? They both seam to be ...
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Forward exchange rates and inflation
Looking at forward rates, the exchange rate for the currency with the higher interest rate gets worse over time. This makes sense or else there would be an arbitrage opportunity to borrow in the low ...
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Do changes in the interest rates affect the supply of currency?
I understand how changes in interest rates affect the demand for currency (i.e. foreign exchange), but was wondering whether there is also an effect on its supply. I am hypothesising the following: ...
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Meaning of Exchange rate
Does exchange rate of local currency relative to US dollar mean LOC/USD or USD/LOC ?
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