Motives and Effectiveness of Forex Interventions : Evidence from Peru /

This paper assesses empirically the motives and effectiveness of forex interventions in Peru. While the central bank of Peru states that its forex interventions aim only at containing excessive exchange rate volatility, the results of this paper show that, in practice, the interventions seem to have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tashu, Melesse
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/217
Online Access:Full text available on IMF