Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Shield Against Appreciation Winds?

July 1, 2011

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Gustavo Adler, and Camilo E Tovar Mora. Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Shield Against Appreciation Winds?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines foreign exchange intervention practices and their effectiveness using a new qualitative and quantitative database for a panel of 15 economies covering 2004 - 10, with special focus on Latin America. Qualitatively, it examines institutional aspects such as declared motives, instruments employed, the use of rules versus discretion, and the degree of transparency. Quantitatively, it assesses the effectiveness of sterilized interventions in influencing the exchange rate using a two-stage IV-panel data approach to overcome endogeneity bias. Results suggest that interventions slow the pace of appreciation, but the effects decrease rapidly with the degree of capital account openness. At the same time, interventions are more effective in the context of already ?overvalued' exchange rates.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Currency markets, Exchange rate assessments, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Money

Keywords: Appreciation rate, Appreciation rate., Asia and Pacific, Currencies, Currency appreciation, Currency markets, Exchange rate assessments, Exchange rate volatility, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange intervention, FX intervention, FX market, Global, IMF staff calculation, Intervention data, Reaction function, Sterilization, U.S. dollar, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

29
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2011/165
Stock No:

WPIEA2011165
ISBN:

9781462301218
ISSN:

1018-5941

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