Arbeitspapier

A structural break in the effects of Japanese foreign exchange intervention on yen/dollar exchange rate volatility

While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized intervention has a higher probability of success than sterilized intervention. Based on a GARCH framework and change point detection, we test for a structural break in the effectiveness of Japanese foreign exchange intervention. We find a changing impact of Japanese foreign exchange intervention on exchange rate volatility at the turn of the millennium when Japanese foreign exchange intervention started to remain unsterilized.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 650

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Central Banks and Their Policies
Foreign Exchange
International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
International Financial Markets
Thema
Change Point Detection
Exchange rate volatility
foreign exchange intervention
GARCH
Japan
Structural Breaks
Wechselkurspolitik
Wechselkurs
Volatilität
ARCH-Modell
Strukturbruch
Yen
US-Dollar
Japan

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hillebrand, Eric
Schnabl, Gunther
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2006

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hillebrand, Eric
  • Schnabl, Gunther
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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