The Influence of Actual and Unrequited Interventions /
Dominguez, Kathryn M.E.
The Influence of Actual and Unrequited Interventions / Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, Freyan Panthaki. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w12953 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12953. .
March 2007.
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports of what we term, unrequited interventions, interventions that the market expects but do not materialize. In this paper we examine the effects of various types of intervention news on intra-day exchange rate behavior. We find that unrequited interventions have a statistically significant influence on returns, volatility and order flow, suggesting that the expectation of intervention, even when governments do not intervene, can affect currency values.
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The Influence of Actual and Unrequited Interventions / Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, Freyan Panthaki. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w12953 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12953. .
March 2007.
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports of what we term, unrequited interventions, interventions that the market expects but do not materialize. In this paper we examine the effects of various types of intervention news on intra-day exchange rate behavior. We find that unrequited interventions have a statistically significant influence on returns, volatility and order flow, suggesting that the expectation of intervention, even when governments do not intervene, can affect currency values.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.