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This article first reviews methods of foreign exchange intervention and then presents evidence - focusing on survey results - on the mechanics of such intervention. Types of intervention, instruments, timing, amounts, motivation, secrecy and perceptions of efficacy are discussed.
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nonlinearity and seemingly innocuous identification assumptions. ; Earlier title: Identifying the effects of central bank …
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This paper extends the genetic programming techniques developed in Neely, Weller and Dittmar (1997) to show that technical trading rules can make use of information about U.S. foreign exchange intervention to improve their out-of-sample profitability for two of four exchange rates. Rules tend to...
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Federal Reserve began to establish or expand Temporary Reciprocal Currency Arrangements with fourteen other central banks …. These central banks had the capacity to use the swap facilities to provide dollar liquidity to institutions in their …, suggests that the dollar swap lines among central banks were effective at reducing the dollar funding pressures abroad and the …
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This article first reviews methods of foreign exchange intervention and then presents evidence—focusing on survey results—on the mechanics of such intervention. Types of intervention, instruments, timing, amounts, motivation, secrecy, and perceptions of efficacy are discussed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005717658
This paper characterizes the temporal pattern of trading rule returns and official intervention for Australian, German, Swiss and U.S. data to investigate whether intervention generates technical trading rule profits. High frequency data show that abnormally high trading rule returns precede...
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We examine the diffusion of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) technology across all 174 central banks. RTGS reduces … settlement risk and facilitates financial innovation in the settlement of foreign exchange trades. In 1985, only three central …
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This article first reviews methods of foreign exchange intervention and then presents evidence—focusing on survey results—on the mechanics of such intervention. Types of intervention, instruments, timing, amounts, motivation, secrecy, and perceptions of efficacy are discussed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026885
Foreign exchange swaps have appeared for some time in the intervention toolkit of many central banks around the world …. 332), seven of fourteen industrial-country central banks surveyed listed foreign exchange swaps against either the U …
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arrangements, or "swap lines," with other central banks. The swap line program, which ended early this year, enhanced the ability … of these central banks to provide U.S. dollar funding to financial institutions in their jurisdictions. …
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