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regime in the late 1990s. In particular, we ask whether these interventions have dumped excess exchange rate volatility and … reduced its probability of being in a high volatility state. To do so, we rely on a high-frequency GARCH(1,1) volatility model … that FX interventions in Chile tend to occur during high exchange rate volatility periods, which correlate with domestic …
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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...
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period to alter either the level or the volatility of the $/DM spot rate is examined. Volatility quotes implicit in foreign …
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This paper attempts to identify implicit exchange-rate regimes for currencies of candidate countries vis-à-vis the euro. To that end, we apply three sequential procedures that consider the dynamics of exchange rates to data covering the period from 1999:01 to 2012:12. Our results would suggest...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...
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This paper analyzes the effects of changes in the Czech exchange rate mechanism on the volatility of the Czech spot … exchange rate. While related studies draw the conclusion that exchange rate volatility decreased after the widening of the … to a refined estimation technique, it becomes apparent that an increase rather than a decline in volatility has taken …
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rate volatility‘ Mean GARCH models are used to investigate the efficacy of foreign exchange market interventions in … volatility equation is negative and significant, which implies that interventions reduce volatility. It is evident that the …
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To counter the sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc that set in in the wake of the European sovereign debt crisis, on September 6, 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced to enforce a minimum EUR/CHF exchange rate of CHF 1.20. We find that the simple, though elegant model for the exchange rate...
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This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly … probability Markov-switching model. We find that net equity (bond) inflows drive the exchange rate to a high (low) volatility … state. In particular, net bond inflows increase the probability of remaining in the low volatility state in the case of …
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