On the inadequacy of newswire reports for empirical research on foreign exchange interventions

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1226-1240

  Fischer, Andreas M ^a,b  

^a SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central bank interventions; Intra daily data; Reuters news reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751523083     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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