Under PPP (And by the Fisher Effect), All Else Equal

question 26

Multiple Choice

Under PPP (and by the Fisher Effect) , all else equal

• A) a rise in a country's expected inflation rate will eventually cause a more-than proportional rise in the interest rate that deposits of its currency offer in order to accommodate for the higher inflation.
• B) a fall in a country's expected inflation rate will eventually cause an equal rise in the interest rate that deposits of its currency offer.
• C) a rise in a country's expected inflation rate will eventually cause an equal rise in the interest rate that deposits of its currency offer.
• D) a rise in a country's expected inflation rate will eventually cause a less than proportional rise in the interest rate that deposits of its currency offer to accommodate the rise in expected inflation.
• E) a fall in a country's expected inflation rate will eventually cause an inversely proportional rise in the interest rate that deposits of its currency offer to accommodate the rise in expected inflation.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A statistic that quantifies the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the numbers are.

Covariance

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Coefficient of Correlation

A statistical measure that calculates the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables, ranging from -1 to 1.

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability based on dividing a data set into quartiles; it represents the range between the first and third quartile, excluding outliers.