Given the following information, answer this and the following 2 questions. You have just rented a villa in Paris for a vacation of 12 months later. Your French landlord wants to preserve real income in euros, so the present monthly rent of €2,000/month will be adjusted upward or downward for any change in the French cost of living between now and then. You expect French inflation to be 3% and US inflation to be 8% over the coming year. You believe implicitly in the theory of purchasing power parity, and you note from the Financial Times that the current spot rate is € 0.8/$.
a. According to Purchasing Power Parity, what should be the spot-rate 1 year later?
b. What should be the total monthly rent in euros a year from now?
c. How many US dollars will you need one year from now to pay your first month’s rent?