Chapter 17 – Purchasing Power Parity A paper submitted to Webber International University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the bachelors of Science degree in Finance. By: Fabricio dos Santos‚ Ruta Skinulyte and Leticia Tomb Date: 12/5/2011 FIN 400-1 Professor: Ms. Eberle Introduction Purchasing power parity is an economic technique used when attempting to determine the relative values of two currencies. It is helpful because many times the amount of goods a currency can buy
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look at the theory behind Purchasing Power Parity PPP‚ and the potential reasons why PPP may not hold. I will then be looking at the value of a can of Coca-Cola in several different countries and demonstrating the variance in price and whether PPP holds‚ therefore giving an indication on whether or not a currency is over or undervalued in relation to a can of coke. I will also be assessing reasons for this variance and relating this back to the theory. Purchasing Power Parity is based on the “law of
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Running Head: Purchasing Power Parity Testing the Evidence of Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange Rates Abstract Investment banks and foreign exchange dealers play important roles in the foreign currency markets. For purchasing power parity to hold in the long run‚ real exchange rates must be stationary. At the heart of the movement of foreign exchange rates is the change in a country’s balance of payments. If purchasing power parity held‚ then the real exchange rate would always equal
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Purchasing Power Parity‚ and How it Determines the Value of the Dollar Course: BBUS 452‚ International Trade Finance Professor: Giuseppe Liberatore Group Members: Pamella De Lima Ishy Carlos Guerrero Ricardo Iraheta Reyes Ann-Marie Mlinac Literature Review “Is Purchasing Power Parity a Useful Guide to the dollar?” This article was our starting article which gave us the idea of researching the Purchasing Power Parity. It identifies that the Purchasing Power Parity should work in
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critically evaluate the theory and empirical evidence relating to the ‘law of one price’ and the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP). Section I explains the concept underpinning the PPP and the law of one price. Section II involves a critical evaluation of the theory and empirical evidence relating to Section I. Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price PPP doctrine has a long history in economics and was propounded in 1918 by the Swedish economist‚ Gustav Cassel during the international policy
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relationship affect Blades’ Thai revenue and costs given that the baht is freely floating? What is the net effect of this relationship on Blades? ANSWER: The relationship between exchange rates and relative inflation rates can be explained by the purchasing power parity (PPP) theory. When one country’s inflation rate is high as compared to another country‚ then the demand for country’s currency with high inflation rate declines. Due to high inflation rates‚ the goods of the country become more expensive and
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PURCHASING POWER PARITY DEBATE Alan M. Taylor Mark P. Taylor Working Paper 10607 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10607 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 June 2004 Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Perspectives. For their helpful comments we thank‚ without implicating‚ Menzie Chinn‚ Richard Clarida‚ Bradford DeLong‚ Charles Engel‚ James Hines‚ James Lothian‚ Bennett McCallum‚ Michael Melvin‚ Peter Neary‚ Maurice Obstfeld
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There has been a long standing controversy among the economist about the validity of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) in the long run. The parity reveals that prices in two different economies should be identical to each other when they expressed in terms of the same currency. It is a central building block in the monetary models of exchange rate determination. One of the most common practices‚ to test the validity of PPP is through unit root test of real exchange rate. In this paper
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The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle Kenneth Rogoff Journal of Economic Literature‚ Vol. 34‚ No. 2. (Jun.‚ 1996)‚ pp. 647-668. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0515%28199606%2934%3A2%3C647%3ATPPPP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S Journal of Economic Literature is currently published by American Economic Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of
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Purchasing Power Parity Analysis Paul Streeten defying Purchasing Power as: “The amount of goods and services bought by a unit of currency. It is therefore the reciprocal of a price index: when prices go up‚ purchasing power falls”. In addition‚ he establishes that Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is the theory that exchange rates between currencies are determined‚ in equilibrium or in the long run‚ by the amount of goods and services that a currency can buy. If £1 in Britain buys what $1.50 buys in
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