Interest rates of most industrialized countries are similar to the U.S. interest rate. In the last few months, the currencies of all industrialized countries weakened substantially against the U.S. dollar. If non-U.S. firms based in these foreign countries financed with U.S. dollars during this period (even when they had no receivables in dollars), their effective financing rate would have been:

none of the options listed

negative

higher than the interest rate of their respective countries

positive, but lower than the interest raate of their respective countries

zero