The Relative Effectiveness of Spot and Derivatives Based Intervention

Download or read book The Relative Effectiveness of Spot and Derivatives Based Intervention written by Milan Nedeljkovic and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the relative effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention in spot and derivatives markets. We make use of Brazilian data where spot and non-deliverable futures based intervention have been used in tandem for more than a decade. The analysis finds evidence in favor of a significant link between both modes of intervention and the first two moments of the real/dollar exchange rate. As predicted by theory for the case of negligible convertibility risk, the impact of spot market intervention in our baseline sample is strikingly similar to that achieved through futures based intervention worth an equivalent amount in notional principal.