Blundell-Wignall, A.; Masson, P. R. - In: IMF Staff Papers 32 (1985) 1, pp. 132-159
One justification for the use by central banks of exchange market intervention is that goods prices adjust more slowly than asset prices. As a result, monetary shocks can produce exchange rate appreciations or depreciations that lead real currency values to diverge from their long-run...