Veritas Emerging Market Fund specializes in investing in emerging stock markets of the world. Mr. Henry Smith, an experienced hand in international investment and your boss, is currently interested in Turkish stock markets. He thinks that Turkey will eventually be invited to negotiate its membership in the European Union. If this happens, it will boost the stock prices in Turkey. But, at the same time, he is quite concerned with the volatile exchange rates of the Turkish currency. He would like to understand what drives the Turkish exchange rates. Since the inflation rate is much higher in Turkey than in the U.S., he thinks that the purchasing power parity may be holding at least to some extent. As a research assistant for him, you were assigned to check this out. In other words, you have to study and prepare a report on the following question: Does the purchasing power parity hold for the Turkish lira-U.S. dollar exchange rate? Among other things, Mr. Smith would like you to do the following: 1. Plot past annual exchange rate changes against the differential inflation rates between Turkey and the U.S. for the last 20 years. (From the year 2000 to 2020) 2. Regress the annual rate of exchange rate changes on the annual inflation rate differential to estimate the intercept and the slope coefficient, and interpret the regression results. Data source: You may download the annual inflation rates for Turkey and the U.S., as well as the exchange rate between the Turkish lira and US dollar from the following source: http://data.un.org. For the exchange rate, you are advised to use the variable code 186 AE ZF.