This paper analyzes central bank policies on monitoring banks in distress when liquidity provisions are conditional on performance and a bad shock occurs. A sequential game model is used to analyze two policies: one in which the central bank acts with discretion and the second in which the...

Intervention operations in the foreign exchange market are used by the Banco Central de Reserva del Peru to manage both the level and volatility of their exchange rates. The Banco Central de Reserva del Peru provides information to the market about the specific hours of the day interventions...

This paper presents an endogenous switching regression model for the exchange rate process where the switch is defined by the central bank criteria functions for intervening. We study the signal effect of interventions on the exchange rate using Norwegian daily data on official interventions. We...