Meanings
- uncountableAn informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the price of a Big Mac in various countries.
Burgernomics hints that their currencies are a little overcooked.
2008, Glen Arnold, Corporate Financial Management4 more examples
Burgernomics is based upon the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)...
1995, James W Eaton, Frederic S Mishkin, 1995 readings to accompany Mishkin, The economics of money, banking, and financial marketsBoth The Economist's and Smart's study move at the intersection between burgernomics and burgerology. But they also move across each other and thereby point to a more general contrast.
1998, Nick Perry, Hyperreality and global cultureLight-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong (2003) of the International Monetary Fund.
2004, Adrian Buckley, Multinational FinanceCuriously, however, burgernomics has an impressive record in predicting exchange rates: currencies that show up as overvalued often tend to weaken in later years.
2009, Theo S Eicher, John H Mutti, Michelle H Turnovsky, Robert M Dunn, International Economics
Origin
Blend of burger + economics, equivalent to burger + -nomics, coined in The Economist in 1986 by Pam Woodall with the introduction of the Big Mac Index.
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