During the Chinese experience with pegging the yuan to the dollar, the yuan was ________. As a result, there was a ________ of dollars on the market, and the Chinese government had to purchase dollars to maintain the peg

A) undervalued; shortage B) undervalued; surplus
C) overvalued; shortage D) overvalued; surplus


B

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A) tariff imposed on goods that are dumped in the country. B) law that prevents ecologically damaging goods from being imported into a country. C) market-imposed balancing factor that keeps prices of imports and exports in equilibrium. D) government-imposed restriction on the quantity of a specific good that can be imported.

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Other things the same, as the price level falls, a country's exchange rate

a. and interest rates rise. b. and interest rates fall. c. falls and interest rates rise. d. rises and interest rates fall.

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Unanticipated inflation arbitrarily:

A. "penalizes" those who borrow money. B. "taxes" those who receive fixed money incomes. C. "benefits" those who save money. D. "subsidizes" those who receive fixed money incomes.

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Explain why the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM) ran into problems in the 1990s

What will be an ideal response?

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