Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks? /

Many emerging market economies have relied on foreign exchange intervention (FXI) in response to gross capital inflows. In this paper, we study whether FXI has been an effective tool to dampen the effects of these inflows on the exchange rate. To deal with endogeneity issues, we look at the response...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blanchard, Olivier
Other Authors: Adler, Gustavo, de Carvalho Filho, Irineu
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/159
Online Access:Full text available on IMF