Effective sterilized foreign exchange intervention? : evidence from a rule-based policy

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
964
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E58, F31, C22
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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