Menu Expand

Bank of Japan Interventions and the Volatility of the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate

Cite JOURNAL ARTICLE

Style

Chortareas, G., Jiang, Y. Bank of Japan Interventions and the Volatility of the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 50(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.50.1.25
Chortareas, Georgios and Jiang, Ying "Bank of Japan Interventions and the Volatility of the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 50.1, 2017, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.50.1.25
Chortareas, Georgios/Jiang, Ying (2017): Bank of Japan Interventions and the Volatility of the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 50, iss. 1, 25-36, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.50.1.25

Format

Bank of Japan Interventions and the Volatility of the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate

Chortareas, Georgios | Jiang, Ying

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 50 (2017), Iss. 1 : pp. 25–36

Additional Information

Article Details

Author Details

Georgios Chortareas, King"s College London, School of Business Management, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, Department of Economics University of Athens, 1 Sofokleus Street, 10559 Athens, Greece.

Ying Jiang, Nottingham University, Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, Room 375 Trend Building, 199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo 315100, China

Abstract

We analyse the impact of Bank of Japan"s (BoJ) intervention on the volatility of the USD/JPY exchange rates under a regime switching framework. We find that the Yen intervention decreases the volatility, and the impact is only significant when market volatility is low.