Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Australian Dollar : Has it Mattered? /

Since the Australian dollar was floated in December 1983, the Australian central bank (Reserve Bank of Australia) has actively intervened in the foreign exchange market. Using daily exchange rate and official intervention data from January 1984 to December 2001, this paper examines what effects, if...

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Autor principal: Liang, Hong
Otros Autores: Cashin, Paul, Edison, Hali
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/099
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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