West Bubble makes ordinary soap bars that are sold for 5 guilders each. East Bubble makes deluxe

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West Bubble makes ordinary soap bars that are sold for 5 guilders each. East Bubble makes deluxe soap bars that are sold for 100 florins each. The real exchange rate between West and East Bubble is two ordinary soap bars per deluxe soap bar.
a. What is the nominal exchange rate between the two countries?
b. During the following year, West Bubble has 10% domestic inflation and East Bubble has 20% domestic inflation. Two ordinary soap bars are still traded for a deluxe soap bar. At the end of the year, what has happened to the nominal exchange rate? Which country has had a nominal appreciation? Which alias had a nominal depreciation?
Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-0321675606

6th Canadian Edition

Authors: Andrew B. Abel, Ben S. Bernanke, Dean Croushore, Ronald D. Kneebone

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