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Exercise 2

  1. In this market maintaining the exchange rate at $A1.00 = US$0.55 creates an excess demand for Australian dollars. The Reserve Bank of Australia will need to sell twenty billion Australian dollars to stop an appreciation of the currency resulting from the excess demand situation.

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