Accumulation of foreign currency reserves and risk-taking

Rasmus Fatum and James Yetman

No 728, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: We assess whether the accumulation of foreign currency reserves in the Asia-Pacific region may have unintended consequences in the form of increased private sector risk-taking. To do so we carry out a country-specific daily data event study analysis of the relationship between official announcements of reserves stocks and various proxy measures of risk-taking. Overall, our results suggest that reserves accumulation exerts no significant influence on risk-taking.

Keywords: foreign exchange reserves; risk-taking; implied volatility; credit default swaps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2018-06
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