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On the denomination of government debt: a critique of the portfolio balance approach

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David K. Backus
Patrick J. Kehoe

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We show that some classes of sterilized interventions have no effect on equilibrium prices and quantities. The proof does not require complete markets, Ricardian equivalence, monetary neutrality, or the law of one price. Moreover, regressions of exchange rates or interest differentials on variables measuring debt’s currency composition contain no information about the effectiveness of such interventions. Other interventions require changes in monetary and fiscal policy; their effects depend, generally, on the influence of these changes on the economy and not on the intervention alone. In short, sterilized intervention is not, as the portfolio balance approach indicates, an extra policy instrument.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its series Staff Report with number 116.

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Keywords: Debts; External ; Foreign exchange - Law and legislation;

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