Interest and Exchange Rates
Key Terms
Currency Convertibility
Basic Foreign Exchange Market Knowledge
100

What is the Fisher Effect formula?

What is i = r + pi


100

The trade of goods and services for other goods and services

What is Countertrade?

100

A country's currency is said to be freely convertible when the country's government allows both residents and non-residents to ___

What is to purchase unlimited amount of a foreign currency?

100

The two functions Foreign Exchange Market

What is the act of converting one currency to another and providing some insurance against foreign risk?

200

What does the r stand for in the fisher effect formula?

what is "real rate of interest"

200

A market where prices reflect all available information

What is Efficient Market?
200

Free convertibility is universal?

What is false?

200

What does PPP stand for?

What is purchasing power parity?

300

What are the benefits of the International Fisher Effect?

What is allows investors and traders to analyze the impact of interest rate differentials on currency exchange rates

300

The exchange rate at which a foreign exchange dealer will convert one currency into another that particular day

What is Spot Exchange?

300

Why do goverments limit convertibility?

What is to preserve their foreign exchange reserves?

300

What are the 3 types of exposures?

What is transaction, translation, and economic exposure?

400

If the real interest rate in Japan is 10% and is only 6% in the United States which country smarter to invest in?

What is Japan

400

The purchase of securities in one market for immediate resale in another to profit from a price discrepancy

What is Arbitrage?

400

When is capital flights most likely to occur?

What is when the value of the domestic currency is depreciated rapidly?

400

True or false? In countries where inflation rates are expected to be high, interest rates also will be high.

What is True?

500

What does the economic theory tell us about interest rates?

What is that interest rates reflect expectations about likely future inflation rates.

500

What is movement of traders like a herd, all in the same direction and at the same time, in response to each other's perceived actions

What is Bandwagon Effect?

500

How can companies deal with the non-convertibility problem?

What is by engaging in counter-trade?

500

Why are some currencies not convertible?

What is because of government restrictions?