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In a free market, what factors underlie currency exchange values? Which factors best apply to long-run exchange rates and to short-run exchange rates?
Identify the factors that account for changes in a currency's value over the long run. 6. What factors underlie changes in a currency's value in the short run?
What is meant by exchange-rate overshooting? Why does it occur? What methods do currency forecasters use to predict future changes in exchange rates?
According to the purchasing-power-parity theory, what will happen to the dollar's exchange value under each of the following circumstances?
What is the real interest rate in each nation? In which direction would international investment flow in response to these real interest rates?
What is meant by the term economic integration? What are the various stages that economic integration can take?
What is meant by the term balance-of-payments adjustment? Why does a deficit nation have an incentive to undergo adjustment? What about a surplus nation?
Under a fixed exchange-rate system, what automatic adjustments promote payments equilibrium? What is meant by the quantity theory of money?
In the gold-standard era, there existed the so called rules of the game. What were these rules? Were they followed in practice?
What are some major disadvantages of the automatic adjustment mechanism under a system of fixed exchange rates?
Why is it that the rate of return on u.s. direct investments in the developing nations often exceeds the rate of return on its investments in industrial nation?
What are the most important motives behind enterprise's decision to undertake foreign direct investment? What is meant by the term multinational enterprise?
What effects does labor migration have on the country of immigration? The country of emigration? The world as a whole?
What is meant by Marshall-Lerner condition? Do recent empirical study suggest that elasticity condition are sufficiently high to permit successful depreciation?
How does J-curve effect relate to time path of currency depreciation? What implications does currency passthrough have for a nation whose currency depreciates?
What impact does the dollar appreciation have on the firm's international competitiveness? What about a dollar depreciation?
In terms of volume, which component of world reserves is currently most important? Which is currently least important?
What is the current role of gold in the international monetary system? What advantages does a gold exchange standard have over a pure gold standard?
What is a eurocurrency? How did the eurocurrency market develop? What risks do bankers assume when making loans to foreign borrowers?
What factors influence the rate of growth in the volume of world trade? What are some of the major arguments for and against an open trading system?
What problems does terrorism pose for globalization? Identify some of the major challenges confronting the international trading system.
What is meant by voluntary export restraints, and how do they differ from other protective barriers?
A subsidy may provide import-competing producers the same degree of protection as tariffs or quotas but at a lower cost in terms of national welfare. Explain.
In 1980, the u.s. auto industry proposed that import quotas be imposed on foreign-produced cars. What would be the likely benefits and costs of such a policy?
What would be the likely effects of export restraints imposed by Japan on its auto shipments to the United States?