Please answer the following questions

1. Foreign Exchange Market

a. How is the Foreign Exchange Rate for a country Determined?

b. Is the Foreign Exchange Market Efficient? What are its implications for Finance manager?

2. Currency Swaps

a.Illustrate using a specific example the advantages and challenges for participants engaged in a Cross Currency Swap.

3.Interest Rates and Exchange Rates; Interest Rate Parity

a. Illustrate the concept of Interest Rate Parity [IRP] and Covered Interest Arbitrage with a numerical example of your own.

b. What is Currency Carry-Trade? Explain using your own example. What are the popular global carry-trade strategies? What are its inherent risks?

c. What are the implications of IRP and Carry-Trade, for Foreign Exchange Market.?