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What can we learn about economic development and political risk from the contrasting experiences of East and West Germany.
For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it.
What is the net impact of this sale on the U.S. current account, financial account, and overall balance of payments for 2010?
What proposals have been made by the IMF to reduce the incidence and severity of international financial crises?
What is the value to the United States of the seignorage associated with these overseas dollars? Assume that dollar interest rates are about 6%.
Panama adopted the U.S. dollar as its official paper money in 1904. Currently, $400 million to $500 million in U.S. dollars is circulating in Panama.
What was the original U.S. dollar value of the Zim dollar? What is the new U.S. dollar value of the Zim dollar?
What is the likely consequence of a large capital inflow for the rate of inflation in Hong Kong? For the competitiveness of Hong Kong business? Explain.
What was the likely impact of these factors on the value of the Colombian peso and the competitiveness of Colombia’s legal exports? Explain.
What is the likely impact of this policy on Asian foreign exchange reserves? On Asian inflation? On Asian export competitiveness? On Asian living standards?
On November 28, 1990, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told the House Banking Committee that despite possible benefits to the U.S. trade balance.
The Fed adopts an easier monetary policy. How is this likely to affect the value of the dollar and U.S. interest rates?
What might the monetary authorities do to a currency that would cause its value to drop?
Currently, the yuan is not a convertible currency, meaning that Chinese individuals are not permitted to exchange their yuan.
Suppose the Chinese government were to cease its foreign exchange market intervention and the yuan climbed to five to the dollar.
Why is pattern bargaining so important for labor unions? What do they hope to accomplish with it?
A memorandum by Labor Secretary Robert Reich to President Bill Clinton suggested that the government penalize U.S. companies that invest overseas.
Are the unions and their members right to be concerned about the effects of free-trade policies? What are these effects that they are concerned about?
How does foreign competition limit the prices that domestic companies can charge and the wages and benefits that workers can demand?
Which countries are the top five exporters to the United States? Which countries are the top five importers of U.S. goods?
Are multinational firms riskier than purely domestic firms? What data would you need to address this question?
Go to the websites of companies such as the ones listed here and examine their international business activity.
Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics website at www.bls.gov. What are the sectors that have added the most jobs in the period 1990 to 2005?
Do Japanese automakers prefer a tariff or a quota on their U.S. auto exports? Why? Is there likely to be consensus.
What is the link between currency intervention and China and Japan buying U.S. Treasury bonds?