| Session 4: Economics: Economics for Valuation Reading 17: The Exchange Rate and Balance of Payments
 
 
 LOS a: Define an exchange rate and differentiate between the nominal exchange rate and the real exchange rate.       Assuming no changes in the prices of a representative consumption basket in two currency areas over the measurement period, the nominal exchange rate: 
 
 
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| A) | can be extrapolated to calculate interest rates. |  |  
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| B) | is equal to the real exchange rate. |  |  
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| C) | can be converted to the real exchange rate using interest rates. |  |  |