In the United Kingdom, the inflation rate is 1.8 per cent per year and that T-bills currently yield 2.1 per cent annually. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Australia if short-term Australian government securities yield 4 per cent per year?
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In the United Kingdom, the inflation rate is 1.8 per cent per year and that T-bills currently yield 2.1 per cent annually. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Australia if short-term Australian government securities yield 4 per cent per year?
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- You observe that the inflation rate in the United States is 1.3 percent per year and that T- bills currently yield 1.8 percent annually. Use the approximate international Fisher effect to answer the following questions. a. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Australia, if short-term Australian government securities yield 8 percent per year? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e.g., 32.1.) b. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Canada, if short-term Canadian government securities yield 11 percent per year? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e.g., 32.1.) c. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Taiwan, if short-term Taiwanese government securities yield 13 percent per year? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e.g., 32.1.) X Answer is complete but not entirely correct. a. Australian inflation rate b. Canadian inflation rate c. Taiwanese inflation rate 0.5 X % 5.5 X % 7.5 X %Suppose the U.S. T-bills is 4.76% annually and the U.S. inflation rate is 3.52% annually. If the shor-term Australian government securities is 6.98% per year, what is the inflation rate in Australia. Please use the approximate (not exact form) international Fisher effect for this question ?The dollar-per-euro spot rate is 1.4457 and the 1-yr forward rate is 1.4194. If inflation in Germany is forecasted at 4.5% this year, what is the forecasted inflation rate in the United States?
- Suppose the year 1, year 2 and year 3 forecasts for the rate of inflation in Denmark are 3%, 4% and 5% respectively. Suppose also that the year 1, year 2 and year 3 forecasts for the rate of inflation in France are 11%, 9% and 8% respectively. If the expected spot rate between the Danish Krone (DKK) and the EUR is EUR0.1344/DKK at the end of year 3, what is the current spot rate? a.EUR0.119024/DKK b.EUR0.151762/DKK c.EUR0.111027/DKK d.EUR0.128269/DKK e. Not enough information to answer this question.Suppose the year 1, year 2 and year 3 forecasts for the rate of inflation in Denmark are 3%, 4% and 5% respectively. Suppose also that the year 1, year 2 and year 3 forecasts for the rate of inflation in France are 11%, 9% and 8% respectively. If the expected spot rate between the Danish Krone (DKK) and the EUR is EUR0.1344/DKK at the end of year 3, what is the current spot rate? a. EUR0.119024/DKK b. EUR0.151762/DKK c. EUR0.128269/DKK d. EUR0.111027/DKK e. Not enough information to answer this question.The interest rate on Indian government securities with one-year maturity is 8%, and the expected inflation rate for the coming year is 7%. The interest rate on US government securities with one-year maturity is 0.18% and the expected rate of inflation is 1.5%. The current spot exchange rate for Indian Rupee is $1=R56. Forecast the spot exchange rate one year from today. Explain the logic of your answer.
- Suppose that the real interest rate in Japan and the U.S. is 2.00%. Furthermore, assume that the nominal (1-year) interest rate in Japan is 11.00% while the nominal interest rate over the same time period in the United States is 8.00%. According to the international Fisher effect theory, the expected inflation rate in Japan is % is % while the expected inflation rate in the U.S.Suppose that the U.S. interest rate on one year Treasury notes was 4.7%. We will use this as the annual interest rate in the U.S. And suppose that the interest rate on the one-year German Treasury note was 4.2%. The spot rate is 1.0162 EUR/USD. And the 3-month forward rate is 1.0188 Eur/USD. Is there an opportunity for covered interest arbitrage? If so, what would be the total profit if we borrowed $25 million? OA YES-$27,395.21 would be the profit OB. YES-$33,385.41 would be the profit OC. YES-$37,342.89 would be the profit OD. NO- there is no opportunity for a profitExpected inflation in Argentina for next year is 64%. Expected inflation in Europe, for the same period, is 7.0%. Spot rate today is EUR/ARS=158.70. Using PPP, can you estimate the future spot rate in a year from now? (additional information: 1g of gold today=EUR54.94)
- According to the international Fisher effect, if U.S. investors a 3% rate of inflation in European countries that use the euro and expect a 4% rate of domestic inflation over one year, and, and require a 2% real return on investments over one year, the nominal interest rate on one-year U.S. Treasury securities would be: -2% 6% 8% 3% 4%1.A research institution has just published projected inflation rates for the United States andGermany for the next year. U.S. inflation is expected to be at 10% per year while German inflationis expected to be at 4% per year. If the current exchange rate is $0.95/€, what should be theexchange rate for the next years? 4. Suppose exchange rate for the British pound, Euro, and Australia dollar were $1.400, $1.225, and$0.875, respectively. At the time, the associated 90-day interest rates (annualized) were 12%, 6%,and 4%, while the U.S. 90-day interest rate (annualized) was 8%. What was the 90-day forwardrate on a Dollar Currency portfolio (DCP) (DCP 1 = £1 + €1 + AU$1) if interest parity were tohold?Malaysia’s inflation is expected to be 1.25% and Thailand’s inflation is expected to be 0.95% next year.Given the spot value of Thai baht (THB) is MYR0.1320, compute the real value of THB for next year.
