What prompts Japan to intervene in the Forex market? A new approach to a reaction function

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-212

  Ito, Takatoshi ^a,b   Yabu, Tomoyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Inst for Monetary Economic Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central bank intervention; Foreign exchange rates; Ordered probit; Political cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847198335     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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