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The forward exchange rate is the price agreed to today for exchanges that will take place in the future. An exchange rate is confusing because there is no natural way to quote the price. The currency that is being priced or valued by the rate is the currency that is in the denominator.", "At the center of the foreign exchange market are a group of banks that use computers and telecommunications to conduct trades with their customers (the retail part of the market) and with each other (the interbank part of the market). Most foreign exchange trades are conducted by exchanging ownership of demand deposits denominated in different currencies. The box “Foreign Exchange Trading” notes the immense size and some of the characteristics of the foreign exchange market.", "We can picture the foreign exchange market by using demand and supply curves. Exports of goods and services and capital outflows (as well as income payments to foreigners) create a demand for foreign currency, as payments for these items typically require that at some point in the payment process the home currency is exchanged for the foreign currency to pay for the items that the home residents are buying. Imports of goods and services and capital inflows (as well as income received from foreign sources) create a supply of foreign currency, as payments for these items typically require that at some point in the payment process the foreign currency is exchanged for the home currency to pay for the items that the foreign residents are buying.", "The text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for foreign currency through changes in the dollar price of products that the home country might buy from the foreign country, as the going spot exchange rate would be one or another value. (The text assumes that the supply curve slopes upward, without much discussion at this point. The details of how values of exports and imports respond to changes in the exchange rate are deferred until the last part of Chapter 23.)" ], "slideOutline": [ "The Basics of Currency Trading", "Using the Foreign Exchange Market", "Interbank Foreign Exchange Trading", "Demand and Supply for Foreign Exchange", "Floating Exchange Rates", "Fixed Exchange Rates", "The Spot Exchange Market: Floating and Fixed Exchange Rates", "A Shift in Demand for Pounds in the Spot Exchange Market", "Exchange Rate Changes", "Arbitrage Within the Spot Exchange Market" ], "stats": { "manualChars": 16479, "slideCount": 13, "exerciseCount": 60, "knowledgePoints": 7, "caseStudies": 4 }, "knowledgePoints": [ { "id": "ch17-kp-01", "title": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "summary": "The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. 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The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange.", "supportingBullets": [ "The Foreign Exchange Market" ], "sourceType": "manual" }, { "id": "ch17-kp-05", "title": "Interbank Foreign Exchange Trading", "summary": "At the center of the foreign exchange market are a group of banks that use computers and telecommunications to conduct trades with their customers (the retail part of the market) and with each other (the interbank part of the market). Most foreign exchange trades are conducted by exchanging ownership of demand deposits denominated in different currencies.", "supportingBullets": [ "Participation in the interbank (or interdealer) part of the market provides a bank with a continuous stream of information on conditions in the foreign exchange market through communications with traders at other banks and through observing quoted prices.", "Interbank trading allows a bank to readjust its own position quickly and at a low cost.", "It also permits a bank to take on a position in a foreign currency quickly if the bank and its traders want to speculate on exchange-rate movements in the near future." ], "sourceType": "manual" }, { "id": "ch17-kp-06", "title": "Floating Exchange Rates", "summary": "The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. 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If the rate is acceptable, the firm instructs its bank that it wants to use dollars from its dollar checking account to buy 1 million yen at this spot exchange rate. It also instructs its bank to send the yen to the bank account of the Japanese firm. To carry out this instruction, the U.S. bank instructs its correspondent bank in Japan to take 1 million yen from its account at the correspondent bank and transfer the yen to the bank account of the Japanese firm. (The U.S. bank could also use yen at its own branch if it has a branch in Japan.)" }, { "id": "ch17-case-02", "title": "The text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for ...", "summary": "The text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for foreign currency through changes in the dollar price of products that the home country might buy from the foreign country, as the going spot exchange rate would be one or another value. (The text assumes that the supply curve slopes upward, without much discussion at this point.", "sourceExcerpt": "The text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for foreign currency through changes in the dollar price of products that the home country might buy from the foreign country, as the going spot exchange rate would be one or another value. (The text assumes that the supply curve slopes upward, without much discussion at this point. The details of how values of exports and imports respond to changes in the exchange rate are deferred until the last part of Chapter 23.)" }, { "id": "ch17-case-03", "title": "Suggested answers to case study discussion question Foreign Exchange Tra ...", "summary": "Suggested answers to case study discussion question Foreign Exchange Trading: In Europe there is one major location for foreign exchange trading, London. In North America (really, the Americas, or the Western Hemisphere) there is one major location, New York. Asia is different, it has three locations that are all about equal in size—Tokyo (Japan), Singapore, and Hong Kong.", "sourceExcerpt": "Suggested answers to case study discussion question\nForeign Exchange Trading: In Europe there is one major location for foreign exchange trading, London. In North America (really, the Americas, or the Western Hemisphere) there is one major location, New York. Asia is different, it has three locations that are all about equal in size—Tokyo (Japan), Singapore, and Hong Kong. Foreign exchange trading is a business that seems to benefit from external scale economies (discussed in Chapter 6), as shown by the clustering of trading in banks in each of London and New York. London dominates foreign exchange trading in Europe, with its time zones of overlapping banking hours, and New York dominates foreign exchange trading in the Western Hemisphere, with its time zones of overlapping banking hours. Because external scale economies seem to be important in this industry, it is surprising that no one" }, { "id": "ch17-case-04", "title": "b.Demand for yen. The U.S. import company probably begins with dollars ...", "summary": "b.Demand for yen. The U.S. import company probably begins with dollars, and the Japanese producer probably wants to receive payments in yen. Dollars must be sold to obtain yen.", "sourceExcerpt": "b.Demand for yen. The U.S. import company probably begins with dollars, and the Japanese producer probably wants to receive payments in yen. Dollars must be sold to obtain yen." } ], "exercises": [ { "number": 1, "question": "Which of the following refers to foreign exchange?", "options": { "A": "The act of trading different nations' moneys", "B": "The holdings of foreign assets", "C": "The act of exchanging goods and services internationally", "D": "The adoption of foreign trade policies" }, "answer": "A", "answerText": "The act of trading different nations' moneys", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 2, "question": "If the price of British pounds in terms of U.S. dollars is $1.80 per pound, then the price of U.S. dollars in terms of British pounds is", "options": { "A": "£1.80 per dollar.", "B": "£0.556 per dollar.", "C": "£0.90 per dollar.", "D": "£3.60 per dollar." }, "answer": "B", "answerText": "£0.556 per dollar.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 3, "question": "The exchange rate set for an immediate trade is often referred to as a", "options": { "A": "managed exchange rate.", "B": "pegged exchange rate.", "C": "forward exchange rate.", "D": "spot exchange rate." }, "answer": "D", "answerText": "spot exchange rate.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 4, "question": "The exchange rate that is set now for a currency trade that will take place sometime more than a few days in the future is often referred to as a", "options": { "A": "spot exchange rate.", "B": "forward exchange rate.", "C": "pegged exchange rate.", "D": "managed exchange rate." }, "answer": "B", "answerText": "forward exchange rate.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 5, "question": "The retail part of the foreign exchange market does not include traders at banks trading with", "options": { "A": "national governments.", "B": "stock brokers who trade in the assets of the firms in different nations.", "C": "traders at other banks.", "D": "nonfinancial companies that sometimes want to buy and sell different currencies." }, "answer": "C", "answerText": "traders at other banks.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 6, "question": "Which of the following is true of foreign exchange markets?", "options": { "A": "The foreign exchange market is a single gathering place where traders shout buy-and-sell orders at each other.", "B": "Individuals' exchanges of currencies comprise the largest portion of overall foreign exchange trading.", "C": "The laws of demand and supply are not applicable in a foreign exchange market.", "D": "Most foreign exchange trading involves the exchange of U.S. dollars for other currencies." }, "answer": "D", "answerText": "Most foreign exchange trading involves the exchange of U.S. dollars for other currencies.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "2 Medium", "bloom": "Understand" }, { "number": 7, "question": "The U.S. dollar is called a ________ because it is often used as an intermediary to accomplish trading between two other currencies.", "options": { "A": "vehicle currency", "B": "main currency", "C": "common currency", "D": "primary currency" }, "answer": "A", "answerText": "vehicle currency", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 8, "question": "Suppose the dollar per pound exchange rate is $2 per pound while the dollar per Swiss franc exchange rate is 50 cents per franc. From the given information we can conclude that the Swiss franc per pound exchange rate is", "options": { "A": "1 franc per pound.", "B": "too low.", "C": "too high.", "D": "4 francs per pound." }, "answer": "D", "answerText": "4 francs per pound.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "2 Medium", "bloom": "Understand" }, { "number": 9, "question": "Which of the following is NOT a function of the interbank part of the foreign exchange market?", "options": { "A": "Provides a bank with a continuous stream of information on conditions in the foreign exchange market", "B": "Provides a bank the means to readjust its own position quickly and at low cost when it separately conducts a large trade with a customer", "C": "Permits a bank to take on a position in a foreign currency quickly if the bank and its traders want to speculate on exchange-rate movements in the near future", "D": "Provides clearing services for organizations that prefer to use different currencies" }, "answer": "D", "answerText": "Provides clearing services for organizations that prefer to use different currencies", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "2 Medium", "bloom": "Understand" }, { "number": 10, "question": "The 2004-2013 rapid growth in global foreign exchange trading can be explained by", "options": { "A": "large increases in trading by hedge funds, pension funds, and other financial institutions.", "B": "increases in the volume of global trade in the recent years.", "C": "volatility in U.S. long-term government bond yields.", "D": "an increase in the number of nations adopting the floating exchange rate system." }, "answer": "A", "answerText": "large increases in trading by hedge funds, pension funds, and other financial institutions.", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 11, "question": "Interbank trading is conducted directly between ________ or through the use of ________ that provide anonymity until the trade is complete.", "options": { "A": "traders; brokers", "B": "brokers; traders", "C": "individual consumers; the government", "D": "individual consumers; brokers" }, "answer": "A", "answerText": "traders; brokers", "topic": "The Basics of Currency Trading", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" }, { "number": 12, "question": "A country's demand for foreign currency is derived from", "options": { "A": "international transactions entering the debit side of its balance-of-payments accounts.", "B": "international transactions entering the credit column of its balance-of-payments accounts.", "C": "the government's attempt to revalue domestic currency.", "D": "an increase in foreign capital inflows into the domestic country." }, "answer": "A", "answerText": "international transactions entering the debit side of its balance-of-payments accounts.", "topic": "Demand and Supply for Foreign Exchange", "difficulty": "1 Easy", "bloom": "Remember" } ], "handoutMarkdown": "# 第17章 The Foreign Exchange Market\n\n## 章节概览\nThe purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. An exchange rate is the price of one money in terms of another. The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange. The forward exchange rate is the price agreed to today for exchanges that will take place in the future.\n\n## 知识点\n### 1. The Basics of Currency Trading\n- 教学说明：The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. An exchange rate is the price of one money in terms of another. The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange.\n- 支撑要点：Foreign exchange\n- 支撑要点：is the act of trading different nations’ moneys.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 2. Demand and Supply for Foreign Exchange\n- 教学说明：We can picture the foreign exchange market by using demand and supply curves. Exports of goods and services and capital outflows (as well as income payments to foreigners) create a demand for foreign currency, as payments for these items typically require that at some point in the payment process the home currency is exchanged for the foreign currency to pay for the items that the home residents are buying.\n- 支撑要点：Within the foreign exchange market, people want to trade moneys by trading in goods, services, and financial assets.\n- 支撑要点：A nation’s export of goods, services, and financial assets typically causes foreign moneys to be sold to buy that nation’s money.\n- 支撑要点：Thus, U.S. exports of goods, services, and financial assets create a supply of foreign currency and a demand for U.S. dollars.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 3. Arbitrage Within the Spot Exchange Market\n- 教学说明：The chapter concludes by introducing the two different kinds of arbitrage that can occur using the spot foreign exchange market. The simpler form is arbitrage of the same exchange rate between two locations. This arbitrage assures that, at a particular time, the same exchange rate is essentially the same value in different locations (at least within a small range that reflects transactions costs).\n- 支撑要点：Arbitrage:\n- 支撑要点：The process of buying and selling to make a (nearly) riskless pure profit\n- 支撑要点：Ensures that exchange rate values in different locations are essentially the same.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 4. Using the Foreign Exchange Market\n- 教学说明：The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. An exchange rate is the price of one money in terms of another. The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange.\n- 支撑要点：The Foreign Exchange Market\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 5. Interbank Foreign Exchange Trading\n- 教学说明：At the center of the foreign exchange market are a group of banks that use computers and telecommunications to conduct trades with their customers (the retail part of the market) and with each other (the interbank part of the market). Most foreign exchange trades are conducted by exchanging ownership of demand deposits denominated in different currencies.\n- 支撑要点：Participation in the interbank (or interdealer) part of the market provides a bank with a continuous stream of information on conditions in the foreign exchange market through communications with traders at other banks and through observing quoted prices.\n- 支撑要点：Interbank trading allows a bank to readjust its own position quickly and at a low cost.\n- 支撑要点：It also permits a bank to take on a position in a foreign currency quickly if the bank and its traders want to speculate on exchange-rate movements in the near future.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 6. Floating Exchange Rates\n- 教学说明：The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. An exchange rate is the price of one money in terms of another. The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange.\n- 支撑要点：Under a\n- 支撑要点：floating exchange-rate\n- 支撑要点：system, the spot price of foreign currency is market-determined by the interaction of private demand and supply for that currency. The market clears itself through the price mechanism.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n### 7. Fixed Exchange Rates\n- 教学说明：The purpose of this chapter is to present the foreign exchange market and exchange rates, with an emphasis on spot exchange rates. Foreign exchange is the act of trading different countries' moneys. An exchange rate is the price of one money in terms of another. The spot exchange rate is the price for \"immediate\" exchange.\n- 支撑要点：Under a\n- 支撑要点：fixed exchange-rate system\n- 支撑要点：government monetary authorities keep the exchange-rate value fixed (or pegged), even if the rate they choose differs from the current market equilibrium rate.\n- 来源类型：manual\n\n## 案例\n### 案例 1: 4.The U.S. firm obtains a quotation from its bank on the ...\n4.The U.S. firm obtains a quotation from its bank on the spot exchange rate for buying yen with dollars. If the rate is acceptable, the firm instructs its bank that it wants to use dollars from its dollar checking account to buy 1 million yen at this spot exchange rate. It also instructs its bank to send the yen to the bank account of the Japanese firm.\n\n### 案例 2: The text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for ...\nThe text explains the downward slope of the demand curve for foreign currency through changes in the dollar price of products that the home country might buy from the foreign country, as the going spot exchange rate would be one or another value. (The text assumes that the supply curve slopes upward, without much discussion at this point.\n\n### 案例 3: Suggested answers to case study discussion question Foreign Exchange Tra ...\nSuggested answers to case study discussion question Foreign Exchange Trading: In Europe there is one major location for foreign exchange trading, London. In North America (really, the Americas, or the Western Hemisphere) there is one major location, New York. Asia is different, it has three locations that are all about equal in size—Tokyo (Japan), Singapore, and Hong Kong.\n\n### 案例 4: b.Demand for yen. The U.S. import company probably begins with dollars ...\nb.Demand for yen. The U.S. import company probably begins with dollars, and the Japanese producer probably wants to receive payments in yen. Dollars must be sold to obtain yen.\n\n## 习题\n### 题目 1\nWhich of the following refers to foreign exchange?\n- A) The act of trading different nations' moneys\n- B) The holdings of foreign assets\n- C) The act of exchanging goods and services internationally\n- D) The adoption of foreign trade policies\n\n### 题目 2\nIf the price of British pounds in terms of U.S. dollars is $1.80 per pound, then the price of U.S. dollars in terms of British pounds is\n- A) £1.80 per dollar.\n- B) £0.556 per dollar.\n- C) £0.90 per dollar.\n- D) £3.60 per dollar.\n\n### 题目 3\nThe exchange rate set for an immediate trade is often referred to as a\n- A) managed exchange rate.\n- B) pegged exchange rate.\n- C) forward exchange rate.\n- D) spot exchange rate.\n\n### 题目 4\nThe exchange rate that is set now for a currency trade that will take place sometime more than a few days in the future is often referred to as a\n- A) spot exchange rate.\n- B) forward exchange rate.\n- C) pegged exchange rate.\n- D) managed exchange rate.\n\n### 题目 5\nThe retail part of the foreign exchange market does not include traders at banks trading with\n- A) national governments.\n- B) stock brokers who trade in the assets of the firms in different nations.\n- C) traders at other banks.\n- D) nonfinancial companies that sometimes want to buy and sell different currencies.\n\n### 题目 6\nWhich of the following is true of foreign exchange markets?\n- A) The foreign exchange market is a single gathering place where traders shout buy-and-sell orders at each other.\n- B) Individuals' exchanges of currencies comprise the largest portion of overall foreign exchange trading.\n- C) The laws of demand and supply are not applicable in a foreign exchange market.\n- D) Most foreign exchange trading involves the exchange of U.S. dollars for other currencies.\n\n### 题目 7\nThe U.S. dollar is called a ________ because it is often used as an intermediary to accomplish trading between two other currencies.\n- A) vehicle currency\n- B) main currency\n- C) common currency\n- D) primary currency\n\n### 题目 8\nSuppose the dollar per pound exchange rate is $2 per pound while the dollar per Swiss franc exchange rate is 50 cents per franc. From the given information we can conclude that the Swiss franc per pound exchange rate is\n- A) 1 franc per pound.\n- B) too low.\n- C) too high.\n- D) 4 francs per pound.\n\n## 参考答案\n- 题目 1: 答案：A | 选项内容：The act of trading different nations' moneys | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 2: 答案：B | 选项内容：£0.556 per dollar. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 3: 答案：D | 选项内容：spot exchange rate. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 4: 答案：B | 选项内容：forward exchange rate. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 5: 答案：C | 选项内容：traders at other banks. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 6: 答案：D | 选项内容：Most foreign exchange trading involves the exchange of U.S. dollars for other currencies. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：2 Medium\n- 题目 7: 答案：A | 选项内容：vehicle currency | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：1 Easy\n- 题目 8: 答案：D | 选项内容：4 francs per pound. | Topic：The Basics of Currency Trading | Difficulty：2 Medium\n\n## AI / NextLab 使用建议\n- Mundell Trilemma Lab：将《The Foreign Exchange Market》对应的理论或政策机制放到贸易分析实验室中做交互式验证。 https://digitconnection.ai/nextlab/\n", "handoutDownload": "/ai-course/downloads/chapter-17-the-foreign-exchange-market-handout.md", "chapterJsonDownload": "/ai-course/downloads/chapter-17-the-foreign-exchange-market.json", "nextlabRecommendations": [ { "label": "Mundell Trilemma Lab", "description": "将《The Foreign Exchange Market》对应的理论或政策机制放到贸易分析实验室中做交互式验证。", "href": "https://digitconnection.ai/nextlab/" } ], "rawDownloads": [ { "label": "章节讲义 Markdown", "href": "/ai-course/downloads/chapter-17-the-foreign-exchange-market-handout.md" }, { "label": "章节结构化 JSON", "href": "/ai-course/downloads/chapter-17-the-foreign-exchange-market.json" } ] }