The country’s currency is expected to appreciate. This would cause its currency to:

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Expectations about future exchange rates change current demand and supply for a currency: if appreciation is expected, investors buy the currency now, raising its current value.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Spot exchange rate responds to current demand and supply for a currency.
- Expectations are forward-looking and alter current asset demand: an expected appreciation raises expected return from holding the currency today.
- Capital flows and portfolio adjustments translate expectations into immediate spot market pressure.
- Short-run vs long-run: short-run exchange-rate movements are driven by financial flows and expectations; long-run values reflect fundamentals (inflation, interest rates, trade balances).

2) Step-by-step reasoning
Step 1: Market participants expect the currency to be worth more in the future.  
Step 2: To profit or avoid loss, agents buy the currency now (increase demand) or reduce holdings of foreign currency.  
Step 3: Higher demand for the currency at the current spot market moves the spot exchange rate in the direction of appreciation (the domestic currency strengthens).  
Step 4: This adjustment occurs immediately in the short run because trading and capital flows react quickly to expectations.

3) Intermediate "calculation" / conceptual change
- Let S0 be the initial spot price (units of foreign currency per domestic or vice versa depending on convention). Demand curve shifts from D0 to D1.  
- New equilibrium spot S1 results where supply meets D1; because demand increased, S1 indicates a stronger domestic currency (appreciation relative to S0). (No numeric values required; the comparative-static result is S1 > S0 or S1 < S0 depending on quote convention, but the direction is appreciation.)

4) Why the correct answer is correct
Expectations of appreciation cause immediate buying pressure, so the currency appreciates in the short run. The spot market moves quickly as traders act on the expectation, producing a short-run appreciation.

5) Why other choices are incorrect
- "Depreciate in long run" and "depreciate in short run": these contradict the effect of expected appreciation, which increases current demand and leads to strengthening, not weakening.  
- "Appreciate in long run": long-run outcomes depend on fundamentals; expectation alone causes a short-run move—long-run appreciation is not guaranteed by an expectation (fundamentals and policy must support it).

6) Conclusion confirming the answer
Therefore, the correct outcome is that the currency will appreciate in the short run, matching the provided answer: "appreciate in short run."

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