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Central bank interventionSee exchange market intervention.Central bank interventionThe buying or selling of currency, foreign or domestic, by central banks in order to influence market conditions or exchange rate movements.Central bank intervention Similar MatchesInterventionInterventionSee exchange market intervention. Nonsterilized interventionNonsterilized interventionTaking an action in the foreign exchange market without adjusting for changes in money supply. Exchange-market interventionExchange-market interventionUsually done by a country's central bank, this is the purchase and sale of the country's currency on the exchange market in order to influence or fully determine its price. These transactions, unless they are sterilized, change the monetary base of the country and thus its money supply. Environmental protection argument for a trade interventionEnvironmental protection argument for a trade interventionThe view that trade should be restricted in order to help the environment. Examples include embargos on imports made from endangered species, limits on imports produced by methods harmful to the atmosphere, and restrictions on investment into locations with lax environmental standards. This is usually a second-best argument. Unsterilized interventionUnsterilized interventionForeign exchange market intervention in which the monetary authorities have not insulated their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions. Further SuggestionsSterilized interventionIntervention currency |
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