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The limitations of foreign-exchange intervention: lessons from Switzerland
Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, monetary authorities in most large developed countries have backed away from foreign-exchange intervention?buying and selling foreign currencies to influence exchange rates. Switzerland?s recent experience goes a long way to illustrate why: Foreign-exchange intervention did not afford the Swiss National Bank with a means of systematically affecting the franc independent of Swiss monetary policy, and it left the Bank exposed to foreign-exchange losses. To affect exchange rates, central banks must change their monetary policies.>
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Part of Series: Economic Commentary
Publication Date: 2013
Issue: Oct
Order Number: 13