Showing posts with label exchange rates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exchange rates. Show all posts

Friday, 13 March 2009

Switzerland set to depreciate their currency to reduce the economic slowdown



The Financial Times reports today that the Swiss Central Bank has started to intervene in the currency markets to lower the value of the Swiss Franc because they fear that a rapidly appreciating currency will worsen their economic slowdown

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/currency-wars/#extended

Essay bank on Exchange rates


http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/images/uploads/OCR_2887_Essay_Bank_ER.pdf

Friday, 6 March 2009

Marshall-Lerner condition

This looks at the effect on the Balance of Payments when the £ depreciates (in the short and longer term).
http://s-cool.co.uk/alevel/economics/exchange-rates/the-exchange-rate-and-the-balance-of-payments.html