Given: interest rates are 8% in the U.S. and 5% in the U.K. The spot exchange rate for British pounds is 123 $/£ and the 1-year forward rate is F1-yr = 125 $/£. You wish to borrow dollars. How can you effectively (synthetically) borrow $1,000,000 for one year without using the U.S. money market? (List each transaction you would make including the amounts of each currency involved.) What is the implied interest rate on your synthetic yen loan? Should you

what are the changes in deposits, currency holdings and money stock for an open market sale of $1,00,000? Given that required reserve ratio is 10%, the desired excess reserve ratio is 5% and desired currency to deposit ratio is 25%.

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7, If the interest rate is 8% in the US and 5% in Europe, then according to the interest rate parity theory, in the long run: (a) Will the dollar appreciate or depreciate with respect to the euro? (b) By what percent?

Assume you are managing a bank in a country that is holding $34 million in assets and $75 million in liabilities denominated in dollars. a. Determine the net exposure in dollars. b. Calculate the gain or loss for each currency below given last year’s spot rate and the current spot rate respectively     for the U.S. $.               Euro: 0.78717;    0.9048               Krone: 5.7538;    6.755               Columbian Peso: 2,535.253;     3,384.9               Mexican Peso: 16.9566;      19.3533               Dinar: .2689;      .30466   Dong: 17,476.5;      23,201.52     c. Convert each of your answers in part b to current dollar equivalents.

Explain partially convertible currency

In Brazil in M1 is $23,500 and post office saving deposit is $15,000 Calculate M2

The ECU as a basket of currencies. What is the percentage/weight of the ECU's total value accounted by the Spanish peseta? Refer to Exhibit 3.4 in the text. Would you get a different result if you valued the ECU in Japanese yen instead of the U.S. dollar? Would you expect this weight to change if the ECU depreciates by 10 percent against the U.S. dollar? For reference (image included)

5) Because capital flows were an important element in the currency crises, it has been advocated that emerging markets countries avoid the financial instability by restricting capital mobility. Assess the extent to which you agree with this statement 6) If a country's par exchange rate is overvalued, what kind of intervention would that country's central bank be forced to undertake, and what kind of effect would it have on its international reserves? What must happen if this country's central bank decides not to intervene anymore?

Explain this function of Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas: -Liquidity management -Currency issue -financial supervision -Management of foreign currency reserves