02066cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021461 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513566672 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Adler, Gustavo. Foreign Exchange Intervention : A Dataset of Public Data and Proxies / Gustavo Adler, Kyun Suk Chang, Rui Mano, Yuting Shao. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (55 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Foreign exchange intervention (FXI) is a highly debated topic. Yet, comprehensive and comparable data on FXI is hard to find. This paper provides a new dataset of FXI covering a large number of countries over the period 2000-20 at monthly and quarterly frequencies. It includes publicly available data for about 40 countries and carefully constructed proxies for 122 countries. Proxies are focused on both spot and derivative transactions that alter the central bank's foreign currency position and account for a wide range of central bank operations, including vis-a-vis residents, the first proxy to do so to our knowledge. The paper discusses the merits of the new proxy relative to coarser measures traditionally used like the change in reserves, and potential definitional differences with published data. The paper also presents stylized facts using our newly constructed FXI proxies. Mode of access: Internet Chang, Kyun Suk. Mano, Rui. Shao, Yuting. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/047 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/047/001.2021.issue-047-en.xml IMF e-Library