What drives forex interventions? Evidence from the Brazilian Central Bank interventions on the BRL/USD market

In this paper we study what drives buy-side and sell-side probabilities of intervention by the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) on the USD/BRL spot market between 1999 and 2010. BCB’s forex interventions seem to be related to the exchange rate returns and volatility as well as to the spread between dom...

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Main Authors: Felipe Wolk Teixeira, Roberto Meurer, André Alves Portela Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Finance 2013-07-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Finanças
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Online Access:http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rbfin/article/view/4008