This paper analyses the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Initially, a latent factor model is used to decompose the volatility of exchange rates into three unobserved factors - world, numeraire and idiosyncratic. Subsequently, the impact of...

Monetary policy affects both real variables, such as employment, unemployment and output and nominal variables such as nominal interest and inflation rates. For close to a decade the principal focus of monetary policy has been on inflation. During a recession, or when one appears imminent, the...

We develop a ten variable structural VAR model of the Australian economy for the period 1980 to 1995. The VAR methodology has not been widely applied in the Australian context, despite its popularity in quantitative macroeconomics internationally.

This paper concentrates upon the short-term changes in the exchange rate that might be considered as 'clouding' more fundamental changes. We focus on week to week changes in nominal bilateral exchange rates. The main concern of this paper is an attempt to identify the sources of exchange rate...

This article places the data revision model of Jacobs and van Norden (2011) within a class of trend-cycle decompositions relating directly to the Beveridge--Nelson decomposition. In both these approaches, identifying restrictions on the covariance matrix under simple and realistic conditions may...

Since the floating of the Australian dollar in December 1983, questions have been raised from time to time about whether the currency is “excessively” volatile. This paper assesses the volatility of the dollar in the four years prior to the float and in the six years thereafter. The results...

The second half of August 1998 was dominated by two events. From 14 to 28 August, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) intervened in Hong Kong equity markets to prevent a speculative double play against their currency board. On 17 August, Russia announced its default on sovereign bonds. This...