Exchange rate dynamics, structural breaks, and central bank interventions in Colombia

Autor: Jorge Mario Uribe, Natalia Restrepo López
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Ecos de Economía, Vol 19, Iss 41 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1657-4206
Popis: We evaluate the effectiveness of the Colombian Central Bank´s interventions in the foreign exchange market during the period 2000 to 2014. We examine the stochastic process that describes the exchange rate, with a focus on the detection of structural breaks or unit roots in the data to determine whether the Central Bank´s interventions were effective. We find that the exchange rate can be described either by a random walk or by a trend-stationary model with multiple breaks. In neither cases do we find any evidence that the exchange rate was affected by the Central Bank interventions.
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