Assume Australia to be home and Vietnam to be the foreign economy. If the real exchange rate q between Australia and Vietnam is 0.7 and the inflation rate differential (home inflation – foreign inflation) is -1%, given a 15% speed of convergence, what would be the expected rate of change in the nominal exchange rate (dollar per dong)?

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