这是一个英国的国际金融Assignment代写,需要生成图表和报告
Assessment Brief:
Choose a pair of currencies to analyse. You cannot choose the Pound/Dollar combination as this will be used as an example in lectures in preparation for this assignment, but you can choose one of those and a third currency if you want.
Draw a graph of the real effective exchange rate from 1995 to the most recent data available for each of the currencies. (You can have a single graph or two separate ones)
Draw a graph of the market exchange rate and one of the real exchange rate between the two currencies for the same period (again you can have a single graph or two separate ones). You can create your real exchange rate variable using the activity available in Blackboard for the first week of teaching, or any other method. You will need to identify the raw data you used and include it in an appendix. You can create an index variable if that helps in your comparisons.
Write an 800 (max 1000) word report. The references and appendices do not count towards the word limit. In the report you should:
- Explain what motivates your choice of currencies.
- Describe the data you gathered.
- Define all the exchange rates used and how they may relate to each other.
- Has each currency appreciated or depreciated in the last 2 two years of data? Please give details of the exact change in the value of the currencies in those two last years of data. Which of the exchange rates in your graphs should you use to answer this question? Justify your answer.
- What extra information, if any, can you get by examining real exchange rates instead of nominal ones? How might that be relevant for monetary policy discussions?
- Research the economic and political events that may explain the behaviour of the rates since 1995 (for example: dates of significant crises, wars, political instability and how these may help to justify the movements of the currencies).
In your written report besides the graphs, you should also incorporate spreadsheet(s) with all the data you used (does not count towards your word count).
Advice and Guidance:
- When selecting the currencies, make sure that the data you will need is available. For this reason, check various databases to ensure data availability.
- Think about whether the currencies chosen will allow you to present an interesting story or if you have a specific interest and some pre knowledge of those currencies that will make it an interesting task to complete.
- Some databases from which you can download data are:
https://www.bis.org/statistics/
https://www.imf.org/en/Data
https://data.worldbank.org/
https://data.oecd.org/
https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/home.do
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
It is important to provide a clear description of your data as well as to properly cite the data source.
- You should also pay attention to the structure of your report, as well as to the clarity of its writing and arguments.
- Please use Harvard referencing in your report. The library has a guide to help you and you can find it also in the Readings and Sourcestab in the module’s Blackboard site for your convenience. The reference list does not count towards the word limit.
- In lectures we will go over the elements of the assignment using the Pound and Dollar as the two currencies.