Exchange rate returns conditional on intervention/no intervention by the U.S.

Exchange rate returns conditional on intervention/no intervention by the U.S.

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... next investigate the behavior of returns around days when intervention took place. Table 8 presents the raw exchange rate returns-returns to a long position in the foreign currency-conditional on intervention at date t. Recall that our exchange rate data are collected at midday New York time, so that the return at t -1 is the return to a long position in the foreign currency from midday on the day before intervention to midday on the day of intervention. ...
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... we consider the in-sample results for the DEM (top-left panel of Table 9) we see that the majority of trading rules have picked up on the trend associated with intervention. Thus on 88 per cent of occasions the rule signals a long position at t -1, when the annualized daily raw return was 76 per cent (see Table 8). 16 It is also clear that the rule has detected the profitability of trading on the opposite side of the market from the Fed at t, since in every instance when the Fed bought dollars, the rule took a long position and vice versa. ...
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... four panels display median rule returns and their monthly standard deviations conditional on intervention for each of the four exchange rates moving left to right. The top panel displays results from 1976-1980-rather than 1975-1980 as in Table 8-because 1975 was used as a data window for lags in constructing the trading rules. The rules were obtained from training and selection periods 1975-1980. ...
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... rules were obtained from training and selection periods 1975-1980. See the notes to Table 8 for additional details. U.S. official intervention by currency, from 1975 through 1998 ...

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