ECO 1302 Lecture 74: Lecture 74

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When governments fix exchange rates: the balance of payments. A brief historical digression: the gold standard and the bretton woods system. Issue resolved: what was behind the spectacular rise of the canadian dollar in recent. February 2002, the canadian dollar was worth a mere 61. 8 cents in u. s. funds. By early 2008 the canadian dollar has reached parity with the u. s. dollar. A 60 percent rise in the value of the canadian dollar over a five-year period is a significant jump. We will learn some of the answers to this and related questions in this chapter. Exchange rate = price, in terms of one currency, at which another currency can be bought. A currency appreciates when it becomes more expensive in terms of another; the other currency depreciates. Figure 1:the exchange rate of the canadian dollar in us $ funds (annual averages, 1913- Exchange rate of us dollar in canadian $ funds.

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