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Using a set of standard success criteria, we show that Riksbank foreign-exchange interventions between 1993 and 2002 lacked forecast value; that is, the observed number of successes was not significantly greater - and usually substantially smaller - than the number one would anticipate given the...
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The Swedish referendum on the euro in September 2003 is an exceptional event for researchers of monetary unions and of … European economic integration. Voters chose between maintaining the domestic currency, the krona, and replacing it with the … the traditional optimum currency area (OCA) approach, merged with an account of the distributional effects of Swedish …
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Using a set of standard success criteria, we show that Riksbank foreign-exchange interventions between 1993 and 2002 lacked forecast value; that is, the observed number of successes was not significantly greater—and usually substantially smaller—than the number one would anticipate given the...
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Pagrindinis šio straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti vadinamojo dvigubojo kozirio sprendimų valdymo globalioje valiutų rinkoje modelio turinį ir pateikti jo praktinio naudojimo galimybes bei rezultatus. Šis modelis sudarytas remiantis vieno iš autorių anksčiau pasiūlytu adekvačiuoju...
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This comment will explain the differences and respecify some of the equations to dispel any misconceptions in Humpage's earlier article of the same title.
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We analyze the short-term price impact of Japanese foreign exchange intervention operations between 1991 and 2004, using official data from Japan's Ministry of Finance. Over the period as a whole, we find some evidence of a modest "against the wind" effect, but interventions do not have value as...
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Comments at the 10th Anniversary of CLS, New York City.
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The Federal Reserve abandoned foreign-exchange-market intervention because it conflicted with the System’s commitment to price stability. By the early 1980s, economists generally concluded that, absent a portfolio-balance channel, sterilized foreign-exchange-market intervention did not provide...
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How does a country's choice of exchange rate regime impact its ability to borrow from abroad? We build a small open economy model in which the government can potentially respond to shocks via domestic monetary policy and by international borrowing. We assume that debt repayment must be incentive...
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This article offers a survey of the literature on foreign exchange intervention, including sections on the theoretical channels through which intervention might affect exchange rates and a summary of the empirical findings. The survey emphasizes that intervention is intended to provide monetary...
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