2019, Set 2, Question 2 · 5 points
US income growth, EU rates and the euro
Explain how higher US real income affects the current account, graph the euro market result, and work out what higher EU interest rates do to demand for and the value of the dollar.
This exam had three free-response questions in a 60 minute section (a 10 minute reading period and 50 minutes of writing), worth 10, 5 and 5 points, with students told to spend about half the time on Question 1 and split the rest between Questions 2 and 3. The current exam has 3 free-response questions in 60 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
1 Read the question
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2 Write your answer
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3 Score it
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Scoring guidelines (PDF, page 5) What the exam readers saw (Chief Reader report)
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