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Using data from The Economist's Big Mac Index for 2016, the following table shows the local currency price of a Big Mac in several countries as well as the actual exchange rate between each country and the United States. At the time of the data collection, a Big Mac would have cost you $4.93 in the United States and GBP 2.89 in the United Kingdom. The actual exchange rate between the British pound and the U.s. dollar was $1.63 per pound. The dollar price of a Big Mac purchased in the United Kingdom was, therefore, computed as follows: Dollar priceofo Big Mor i.thr Unand Kingdom.GBP 239× $4.7 For the price you paid for a Big Mac in the United States, you could have purchased a Big Mac in the United Kingdom and had some change left over for fries! Complete the final column of the table by computing the dollar price of a Big Mac for the countries where this amount is not given Note: Round your answers to the nearest cent Big Mac tadesi January 20 Local Price Actual Exchange Rate United Kingeam Source: "Currency Comparison, To Go," The Economist, last modified January 7, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016, http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/01/daily-chart-7. Purchasing-power parity (PPP) theory states that exchange rates would need to equalize the prices of goods in any two countries. For the dollar price of a Big Mac to be the same in both countries, a U.S. citizen would need to be able to convert $4.93 into exactly GBP 2.89. To find the exchange rate at which hamburger purchasing power is the same in both countries, divide the price in the United States by the price in the United Kingdom: PPP Exchonge Roar (U.S. Dollars per British powd . ·S1.71 per pound The exchange rate that would have equalized the dollar price of a Big Mac in the United States and the Eurozone (that is, the PPP exchange rate for Big Macs) is This change would mean that the euro had against the dollar.

Explanation / Answer

Dollar price = price in foreign country * exchange rate/1.

a. Dollar price in the eurozone = 3.72 * (1.10/1) = $4.10

b. Dollar price of Norway = 46.80 * (0.12/1) = $5.62.

c. PPP = price in US/price in norway

PPP = 4.93/3.72

PPP = $1.32

d. Over-valued.

The actual exhange rate is $1.10 per euro and the PPP exchange rate is $1.32 per euro, implying over-valuation of the currency.

e. Option B.

The price in eurozone is $4.10 and that in US is $4.93, so exporting from lower price country to a higher price country.

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