In the chapter we analyzed purchasing-power parity for several countries using the price of Big Macs....
8. Purchasing-power parity Using data from The Economist's Big Mac Index for 2016, the following table shows the local currency price of a Big Mac in several countries as well as the actual exchange rate between each country and the United States. At the time of the data collection, a Big Mac would have cost you $4.93 in the United States and GBP 2.89 in the United Kingdom. The actual exchange rate between the British pound and the U.S. dollar was...
8. Purchasing-power parity Using data from The Economist's Big Mac Index for 2016, the following table shows the local currency price of a Big Mac in several countries as well as the actual exchange rate between each country and the United States. At the time of the data collection, a Big Mac would have cost you $4.93 in the United States and GBP 2.89 in the United Kingdom. The actual exchange rate between the British pound and the U.S. dollar...
8. Purchasing-power parity Using data from The Economist's Big Mac Index for 2016, the following table shows the local currency price of a Big Mac in several countries as well as the actual exchange rate between each country and the United States. At the time of the data collection, a Big Mac would have cost you $4.93 in the United States and GBP 2.89 in the United Kingdom. The actual exchange rate between the British pound and the U.S. dollar...
6. Purchasing power parity Using data from The Economist's Big Mac Index for 2011, the following table shows the local currency price of a Big Mac in several countries as well as the actual exchange rate between each country and the United States. At the time of the data collection, a Big Mac would have cost you $4.07 in the United States and GBP 2.39 in the United Kingdom. The actual exchange rate between the British pound and the U.S. dollar...
1. Use the information in the following table to calculate: a. the adult population b. the labor force c. the labor-force participation rate d. the unemployment rate Employed Unemployed Not in the labor force 142,263,000 10,112,000 82,932,000 2. Assume that the reserve requirement is 3 percent. All other equal, will the money supply expand more if the Federal Reserve buys $3,000 worth of bonds or if someone deposits in a bank $3,000 that he had been hiding in his cookie...
Problem 4 The Economist magazine uses the price of Big Macs in different countries to calculate PPP (or LOOP) exchange rates. It is called the Big Mac Index. The following data are from the January 2018 copy of the Economist. I Big Mac Price (local currency) USD 5.28 Country United States Australia New Zealan AUD 5.90 NZD 6.2 Calculate the implied LOOP values for the US-Australian dollar exchange rate and the NZ-Australian dollar exchange rate. . Answer: On January 30,...