What is an advantage of using options instead of forward contracts when hedging against exchange-rate risk?
What will be an ideal response?
Options contracts have the advantage to hedgers that if the price moves in the opposite direction to the one being hedged against, the hedger can decline to exercise the option and instead can gain from the favorable price movement.
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Burger King is paying $9 an hour to its workers. If the expected inflation rate equals the actual inflation rate and both are 10 percent a year, then to keep the real wage rate constant in a year the money wage rate must
A) fall to $8.10 an hour. B) rise to $9.45 an hour. C) rise to $10.00 an hour. D) rise to $9.90 an hour. E) stay at $9.00 an hour.
Refer to Table 11-3. Use the table above to calculate the annual growth rate in GDP. Also calculate the total percentage change in the growth from 2013 through 2016
Explain the difference between the average annual growth rate in real per capita GDP from 2013 through 2016 and the total percentage change in growth from 2013 and 2016.