Blowing against the Wind? A Narrative Approach to Central Bank Foreign Exchange Intervention
Alain Naef
No 188, Working Papers from European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
Abstract:
Few studies on foreign exchange intervention convincingly address the causal effect of intervention on exchange rates. By using a narrative approach, I address a major issue in the literature: the endogeneity of intraday news which influence the exchange rate alongside central bank operations. Some studies find that interventions work in up to 80% of cases. Yet, by accounting for intraday market moving news, I find that in adverse conditions, the Bank of England managed to influence the exchange rate only in 8% of cases. I use both machine learning and human assessment to confirm the validity of the narrative approach.
Keywords: intervention; foreign exchange; natural language processing; central bank; Bank of England. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 F31 N14 N24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2020-06
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Working Paper: Blowing against the Wind? A Narrative Approach to Central Bank Foreign Exchange Intervention (2023) 
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