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天津商业大学2012-2013学年学期 课程考试试卷 课程名称： 考试时间：120分钟 年级：级 专业： An option whose exercise price is the same as the spot price of the underlying currency 2、A financial statement summarizing the flow of goods, services, and investment funds between residents of a given country and residents of the rest of the world. 3、If the law of one price were true for all goods and services, the purchasing power parity exchange rate could be found from any individual set of prices. By comparing the prices of identical products denominated in different currencies, one could determine the “real” or PPP exchange rate which should exist if markets were efficient. This is the absolute version of the theory of purchasing power parity. Absolute PPP states that the spot exchange rate is determined by the relative prices of similar baskets of goods. 4、The process whereby an investor earns a risk-free profit by (1) borrowing funds in one currency, (2) exchanging those funds in the spot market for a foreign currency, (3) investing the foreign currency at interest rates in a foreign country, (4) selling forward, at the time of original investment, the investment proceeds to be received at maturity, (5) using the proceeds of the forward sale to repay the original loan, and (6) sustaining a remaining profit balance. 5、A currency deposited in a bank located in a country other than the country issuing the currency. 二、简答题（7小题，共42分） 1、 In a currency board arrangement, the country issues its own currency but that currency is backed 100% by foreign exchange holdings of a hard foreign currency—usually the U.S. dollar. In dollarization, the country abolishes its own currency and uses a foreign currency, such as the U.S. dollar, for all domestic transactions. 2、Quite obviously the merchandise involved in the import or export of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, or other drugs is not reported to customs officials and so does not appear in the goods section of the current account. For similar reasons, the cash payments