Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57272 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1765
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The coordination channel has recently been established as an additional means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective. It is conjectured that strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by a coordination failure among fundamentals-based traders. In such situations official intervention may act as a coordinating signal, encouraging traders to engage in stabilizing speculation. We apply the framework developed in Reitz and Taylor (2008) to daily data on the yen-US dollar exchange rate and on Federal Reserve and Japanese Ministry of Finance intervention operations. The results provide further support for the coordination channel of intervention effectiveness.
Subjects: 
foreign exchange intervention
coordination channel
STR-GARCH model
JEL: 
C10
F31
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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