Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: 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 behaviour. 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. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.326
Authors: Kathryn M. E. Dominguez, Freyan Panthaki
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: University of Oxford
OpenAlex ID: W1606456705