Just how significant is yen intervention?

This month’s intervention by Japan to weaken the yen has contributed to fears of a “global currency war” or, viewed more positively, to hopes that large-scale unsterilised intervention by the major central banks will be another important way in which unconventional monetary policy will be used to boost nominal demand and asset prices. We are far from convinced.

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