Foreign exchange intervention: A new database

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We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text classification approach that extracts information about interventions from news articles and calibrate our procedure to data about actual interventions. Our new dataset allows us to document stylized facts about the use of foreign exchange interventions for countries that neither publish their data nor make them available to researchers. Moreover, we show that foreign exchange interventions are used in a complementary way with capital controls and macroprudential regulation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2171

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Exchange ; International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions ; Central Banks and Their Policies
• Subject: foreign exchange intervention ; capital controls ; macroprudential regulation ; international capital flows

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fratzscher, Marcel ; Heidland, Tobias ; Menkhoff, Lukas ; Sarno, Lucio ; Schmeling, Maik
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/226365
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET