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Under dirty floating system, central banks intervene to buy and sell foreign currencies in an attempt to moderate exchange rate movements whenever they feel that such actions are appropriate. Therefore, official reserve transactions are:

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✅ Correct Option: 2

Under a managed or dirty float, central banks buy and sell foreign currencies to moderate exchange rate movements. Since they intervene using official reserves, official reserve transactions are not equal to zero, unlike under a clean float where they are zero.

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