4. Large-scale wars typically bring a suspension of international trading and financial activities. Exchange rates lose much

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4. Large-scale wars typically bring a suspension of international trading and financial activities. Exchange rates lose much of their relevance under these conditions, but once the war is over governments wishing to fix exchange rates face the problem of deciding what the new rates should be. The PPP theory has often been applied to this problem of postwar exchange rate realignment. Imagine that you are a British Chancellor of the Exchequer and World War I has just ended. Explain how you would figure out the dollar/pound exchange rate implied by PPP. When might it be a bad idea to use the PPP theory in this way?

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International Economics Theory And Policy

ISBN: 9780321116399

6th Edition

Authors: Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, Marc Melitz

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