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Session Overview
Session
Track TH6-1: International Finance
Time:
Thursday, 22/May/2025:
8:30am - 9:15am

Session Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Pierre de Leo, University of Maryland
Location: Gateway South 122


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Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints

Alex Ferreira1, Rory Mullen2, Giovanni Ricco3, Ganesh Viswanath Natraj2, Zijie Wang2

1University of Sao Paolo; 2University of Warwick; 3Ecole Polytechnique, CREST

The dollar intermediation channel of foreign exchange interventions (FXI), a

form of the portfolio balance channel, arises from the imperfect substitutability

between domestic currency and USD, the dominant global currency, along with

financial frictions limiting USD liquidity access. This channel plays a key role

in Banco Central do Brasil’s FXI. High-frequency data on over 8,000 FXI events

(1999–2023) show that unanticipated spot sales appreciate the domestic currency,

reduce covered interest parity deviations, and crowd out private intermediation,

especially when intermediaries are constrained. Our results support an extended

Gabaix and Maggiori (2015) model, in which constrained intermediaries amplify

intervention effectiveness.

Ferreira-Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints-301.pdf


 
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