Predicted Actual Price of a Exchange Rate Exchange Country Big Mac Rate Chile 2,100 pesos pesos/$ 715 pesos/$ Hungary 900 forints forints/$ 293 forints/$ Czech 75 korunas korunas/$ 25.1 korunas/$ Republic Brazil 13.5 real real/$ 4.02 real/$ Canada 5.84 C$ C$$$ 1.41 C$/$
Predicted Actual Price of a Exchange Rate Exchange Country Big Mac Rate Chile 2,100 pesos pesos/$ 715 pesos/$ Hungary 900 forints forints/$ 293 forints/$ Czech 75 korunas korunas/$ 25.1 korunas/$ Republic Brazil 13.5 real real/$ 4.02 real/$ Canada 5.84 C$ C$$$ 1.41 C$/$
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A case study in the chapter analyzed purchasingpower parity for several countries using the pricc of
Big Macs. Here arc data for a few more countries:
a. For each country, compute the predicted exchange
rate of the local currency per U.S. dollar. (Recall
that the U.S.
b. According to purchasing-power parity, what is the
predicted exchange rate between the Hungarian
forint and the Canadian dollar? What is the actual
exchange rate?
c. How well docs the theory of purchasing-power
parity explain exchange rates?
![Predicted
Actual
Price of a
Exchange
Rate
Exchange
Country
Big Mac
Rate
Chile
2,100 pesos
pesos/$ 715 pesos/$
Hungary
900 forints
forints/$ 293 forints/$
Czech
75 korunas
korunas/$ 25.1 korunas/$
Republic
Brazil
13.5 real
real/$
4.02 real/$
Canada
5.84 C$
C$$$
1.41 C$/$](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F1e765204-523d-486c-a076-d6733ba0ad5d%2Ff6309251-975b-4695-82b4-bf73494ea183%2F0xwn44n_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Predicted
Actual
Price of a
Exchange
Rate
Exchange
Country
Big Mac
Rate
Chile
2,100 pesos
pesos/$ 715 pesos/$
Hungary
900 forints
forints/$ 293 forints/$
Czech
75 korunas
korunas/$ 25.1 korunas/$
Republic
Brazil
13.5 real
real/$
4.02 real/$
Canada
5.84 C$
C$$$
1.41 C$/$
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