Interest Rates and Exchange Rates, James Tompkins

This is the ninth lecture in the "International Finance" series. How do interest rates affect exchange rates? Are there situations when an interest rate increase, for example, can sometimes either weaken or strengthen an exchange rate? The goal of this lecture is to add to our understanding of why the dollar and other currencies go up and down in value. Our focus includes interest rate parity which "real world data" strongly supports.