Arbeitspapier

When is foreign exchange intervention effective? Evidence from 33 countries

This study examines foreign exchange intervention based on novel daily data covering 33 countries from 1995 to 2011. We find that intervention is widely used and an effective policy tool, with a success rate in excess of 80 percent under some criteria. The policy works well in terms of smoothing the path of exchange rates, and in stabilizing the exchange rate in countries with narrow band regimes. Moving the level of the exchange rate in flexible regimes requires that some conditions are met, including the use of large volumes and that intervention is made public and supported via communication.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1518

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
Central Banks and Their Policies
Thema
foreign exchange intervention
exchange rate regimes
effectiveness measures
communication
capital controls

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fratzscher, Marcel
Gloede, Oliver
Menkhoff, Lukas
Sarno, Lucio
Stöhr, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2017

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fratzscher, Marcel
  • Gloede, Oliver
  • Menkhoff, Lukas
  • Sarno, Lucio
  • Stöhr, Tobias
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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