Interest rates exchange rates relationship
The Difference Between Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates. In economic theory, if the interest rates in one country increase, then the currency value of that country will increase as a reaction. If the interest rates decrease, then the opposite effect of depreciating currency value will take place. For this purpose we examine the relationship between interest rates and exchange rates. Interest rates are the return to holding interest-bearing financial assets. In the previous lecture we have pointed out that as being a financial asset exchange rates tend to adjust more quickly to new information that goods prices. The connection between rates of interest and exchange rates with a simple model that integrates the function of exchange rate reverted into national rates and distinguishes between instances of expansionary and contractionary depreciation.