Foreign exchange market intervention: Implications of publicly announced and secret intervention for the euro exchange rate and its volatility

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 661-673

  Brissimis, Sophocles N ^a,b   Chionis, Dionysios P ^c  

^a BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Euro exchange rate; Exchange market intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544352812     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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