Along the lines of the treatment effects literature, this paper empirically revisits the issue of the so-called “intervention effect”, i.e., the effectiveness of official foreign exchange intervention on the movement of the exchange rate. We extended in a continuous treatment setting the...

Using high-frequency, proprietary data on daily net non-resident portfolio flows to emerging markets, our study finds in the time domain connectedness framework that, to varying degrees, there is less interconnectedness in non-resident debt and equity portfolio flows to our sample of emerging...

Taiwan is among the world's largest holders of international reserves, having accumulated US $350 billion of foreign exchange as of end 2009. Despite its significance, since it is not a member of the IMF, Taiwan has been relatively under-studied compared to many of its other Asian counterparts....