The Indian Exchange Rate and Central Bank Action: A GARCH Analysis

Ashima Goyal and Sanchit Arora

Macroeconomics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: We study, with daily and monthly data sets, the impact of conventional monetary policy measures such as interest rates, intervention and other quantitative measures, and of Central Bank communication on exchange rate volatility. Since India has a managed float, we also test if the measures affect the level of the exchange rate. Using dummy variables in the best of an estimated family of GARCH models, we find forex market intervention to be the most effective of all the CB instruments evaluated for the period of analysis. We also find that CB communication has a large potential but was not effectively used.

Keywords: exchange rate volatility; monetary policy; intervention; communication; GARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E58 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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