Consider the bilateral exchange rate between Australia and the US. Suppose the demand for Australian dollars in the foreign exchange market is given by where denotes the quantity of AUD and denotes the nominal exchange rate expressed in USD per AUD. The supply of Australian dollars is given by . Now suppose the Reserve Bank of Australia pegs the exchange rate at . Which of the following is TRUE?

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Consider the bilateral exchange rate between Australia and the US. Suppose the demand for Australian dollars in the foreign exchange market is given by   where  denotes the quantity of AUD and  denotes the nominal exchange rate expressed in USD per AUD.  The supply of Australian dollars is given by  . Now suppose the Reserve Bank of Australia pegs the exchange rate at . Which of the following is TRUE?

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The provided data for this question is incomplete, which prevents a precise evaluation of which statement is true.
First, the question claims a bilateral exchange rate between Australia and the US and references demand and supply functions for Australian dollars, but the actual functional forms are missing. Without explicit demand D(P, e) and supply S(P, e) equations (or their specific dependencies on the exchange rate e and price level P), we cannot solve for the market-clearing condition or describe how a pegged rate would interact with those curves.
Second, the pegging action by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would involve the central bank intervening in the foreign exchange market to hold e fixed at the target level e*, which typically requires changing the monetary base or reserves to offset excess demand or supply. However, to determine the specific implications (e.g., how reserves change, whether the peg is sustainable given the slope of the curves, or whether different scenarios would cause exhaustion of reserves), we need the exact mathematical forms and parameter values.
Because the answer options are missing (the prompt shows an empty list for answer_options) and the stated correct option is “All of the other options,” we cannot assess which of the missing options would be true or false. In a standard setup, evaluating such a question would require: (1) the explicit demand and supply equations for AUD in terms of e and other variables, (2) the pegged rate target e*, and (3) the analysis of how a fixed rate affects the balance of payments, reserves, and monetary conditions under those curves.
Until those details are provided, any conclusion about which statement is true would be speculative. If you can supply the missing demand and supply equations and the list of possible statements, I can walk through each option and determine which ones are correct and which are incorrect with clear reasoning.

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