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International trade, capital flows, and currency exchange rates

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International trade, capital flows, and currency exchange rates

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Explain the benefits of international trade using comparative advantage and identify how differences in resource endowments, technology, and opportunity costs support specialization.
Evaluate the effects of tariffs, quotas, export subsidies, and other trade restrictions on domestic producers, consumers, and overall welfare.

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Calculate and interpret spot exchange rates, cross-rates, and percentage changes in currency values, using correct base and price currency conventions.

Explain the market forces that affect exchange rates, including inflation, interest rates, income growth, trade balances, and capital flows under different exchange-rate regimes.

Explain covered interest rate parity at a basic level and evaluate whether forward premiums or discounts are consistent with observed interest rate differentials and arbitrage conditions.

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