The coordination channel has recently been established as an additional means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective. In Sarno and Taylor (2001) it is conjectured that strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by a coordination failure among...

I examine the effectiveness of exchange rate intervention within the context of a Markov-switching model for the real exchange rate. The probability of switching between stable and unstable regimes depends nonlinearly upon the amount of intervention, the degree of misalignment and the duration...