Intraday Timing of AUD Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia: Evidence from Microstructural Analyses

Peter Andersen and Suk-Joong Kim ()

Chapter 2 in Information Spillovers and Market Integration in International Finance:Empirical Analyses, 2018, pp 43-71 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: We estimate the approximate intraday timing of interventions by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in the onshore and offshore USD/AUD markets for the period of 1996 to 2006. We use a more accurate measure of intervention that excludes transactions with the government as well as high frequency tick-by-tick quote data on the USD/AUD exchange rate. The RBA’s interventions are detected in the late Sydney onshore period, early European market, and again in the early New York market hours. Furthermore, evidence suggests that the RBA chooses those hours of higher volume, lower volatility and lower bid/ask spreads to conduct its non-intervention transactions. These results have important implications not only for institutions and corporations with a need to transact in the market, but also for hedge funds and other traders that may profit by trading against the RBA.

Keywords: Currency Intervention; Macroeconomic News; International Capital Flows; Sovereign Credit Rating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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