Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, University of California, Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Abstract
Abstract
The effectiveness of central bank intervention is debated and despite literature showing mixed results, central banks regularly intervene in the foreign exchange market, both in developing and developed economies. Does foreign exchange intervention work? Using over 60,000 new daily observations on intervention and exchange rates, this paper is the first to study the Bank of England's foreign exchange intervention between 1952 and 1972. The main finding is that the Bank was unsuccessful in managing a credible exchange rate over that period. Running an event study, I demonstrate that betting systematically against the Bank of England would have been a profitable trading strategy. Pressures increased in the 1960s and the Bank eventually manipulated the publication of its reserve figures to avoid a run on sterling.
Funder
Economic and Social Research Council
Swiss National Science Foundation
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),History
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