The impact of FX central bank intervention in a noise trading framework

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1187-1195

  Beine, Michel ^a   Grauwe, Paul De ^b   Grimaldi, Marianna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SVERIGES RIKSBANK   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central bank intervention effectiveness; Chartist fundamentalist regimes; FX markets; Signalling channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049089585     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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