Introduction : book in brief / Marcos Chamon, David Hofman, Nicolás E. Magud, and Alejandro Werner. Why intervene? / Marcos Chamon and NIcolás E. Magud -- A taxonomy of intervention / Oscar A. Hendrick, Nicolás E. Magud, and Asad Qureshi -- The effectiveness of intervention / Marcos Chamon,...

We investigate the motives inflation-targeting central banks in emerging markets may have for intervening in foreign exchange markets and evaluate the case for such interventions based on the existing literature. Our findings suggest that the rationale for interventions depends on initial...

This paper examines the duration of capital account crises. We develop a new index to identify both the start and the end of these crises. Applying the index to a sample of 18 crisis episodes, we derive stylized facts on crisis duration and review the economic and financial circumstances that...