Foreign exchange interventions and interest rate policy in the Czech Republic: Hand in glove?

Economic Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-140

  Égert, Balázs ^a,b,c   Komárek, Luboš ^d,e  

^a OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK   (Austria)

^b School of Oriental and African Studies   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CZECH NATIONAL BANK   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Central bank intervention; Event study; Foreign exchange intervention; GARCH; Interest rate policy; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646814035     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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