Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100110 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 2014-11
Publisher: 
Banco de México, Ciudad de México
Abstract: 
We study variations in the risk-neutral distributions of the exchange rates in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru due to interventions implemented by these countries. For this purpose, we first estimate the risk-neutral densities of the exchange rates based on derivatives market data, for one-day and one-week horizons. Second, using a linear regression model, we assess possible effects on the distributions of the expected exchange rates due to these interventions. We find little evidence of an effect on the expected exchange rates' means, volatilities, skewness, kurtoses, risk premia, and tails' parameters. In the few cases for which we do find some statistical evidence of an effect, it tends to be short-lived or not economically significant. On the other hand, we find evidence that interventions which objective is to restore and/or assure the proper functioning of exchange rate markets have a higher probability of success. This probability increases as the amount of resources to intervene at the disposal of the central bank increases. Needless to say, there are limits to the methodology we use.
Subjects: 
Interventions
Exchange Rates
Risk-Neutral Distributions
Generalized Extreme Value Distributions
JEL: 
E5
F31
G12
C58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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