Foreign exchange intervention: How to signal policy objectives and stabilise the economy

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 841-870

  Vitale, Paolo ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costly signalling; Foreign exchange intervention; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037567564     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(03)00039-4     Document Type: Article

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