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This will create incentives in Eastern Europe to use the European currency as an anchor for exchange rate policies and foreign reserve holdings.
Low equilibrium interest rates are an important anchor for local and external debt prices in emerging markets.
Monetary authorities have, in recent years, made the way they communicate – about their thinking and possible actions – their primary tool to guide markets and anchor expectations.
The Fed’s inability to anchor expectations would not only harm its credibility with investors, but would also make it much harder to fulfill its dual mandate of pursuing price stability and maximum employment.
Nor was it important only during the Cold War, and after, when it served as an anchor for European unity and a source of hope for the countries of the Soviet bloc (which are now the most pro-European countries of all).
This lack of action reflects the increased complexity and linkages of the global financial system, and the absence of an effective anchor for financial stability.
Saudi Arabia, with its burgeoning oil revenues, could use a big deal to reinforce the country’s image as a major anchor of global financial stability.
Unlike many emerging-market and transition economies in the 1990’s, Russia did not abandon a fixed-exchange rate anchor in favor of an inflation-targeting regime as its guide to monetary-policy.
In short, Brazil lacks a credible fiscal and monetary anchor.
The EU provided that anchor almost without hesitation and the result has been spectacular.
The anchor was there from the beginning.
His casual suggestions that US debt might be renegotiated could trigger dramatic losses in the value of Russia’s foreign-currency reserves, which have been its anchor in the economic storm that has hit the country since 2014.
The lack of an official announcement until now attests to the esteem in which it was held, its usefulness as an ornament of credibility for central banks, and fears that there might be no good candidates to succeed it as the preferred anchor for monetary policy.
One reason that IT gained such wide acceptance as the monetary-policy anchor of choice was the demise of its predecessor, exchange-rate targeting, in the currency crises of the 1990’s.
Pegged exchange rates had come under fatal speculative attack in many of these countries, whose authorities thus needed something new to anchor the public’s expectations concerning monetary policy.
One candidate to succeed IT as the preferred nominal monetary-policy anchor has lately received some enthusiastic support in the economic blogosphere: nominal GDP targeting.
Although some eccentrics favor a return to gold as the monetary anchor, most would prefer to leave this relic of another age to its peaceful retirement.
For example, while a fully floating currency would create a beneficial combination of discipline and flexibility, it might best be delayed in favor of an adjustable (“crawling”) peg to some anchor currencies.
Ironically, it is China’s rulers who are now scrambling to resurrect Confucius as a moral anchor in a culture dominated by the pursuit of money.
It helps to anchor the global economy in an open, rules-based system based on international law.
While it acknowledged that “the EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest,” it highlighted the EU’s role as a beacon of hope – a democratic anchor, particularly meaningful for peoples who have lived through the horrors of dictatorships.
After all, with the Chinese economy undergoing wholesale economic transformation, estimating a long-term equilibrium exchange rate that will anchor speculation is virtually impossible, particularly given persistent doubts about data quality, disclosure, and opaque policymaking processes.
But if the current exchange-rate peg to a basket of currencies fails to anchor the renminbi and prevent sharp depreciation, the deflationary consequences for the world economy will be profound.
Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today – by allowing a slower pace of consolidation.
The Third Plenum’s use of “decisive” to anchor a market-based approach is a similar gambit.
Trump-style Politics Comes to IndiaPHILADELPHIA – The decision by the widely respected economist Raghuram Rajan not to seek a second term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI, the central bank) is likely to roil India’s financial markets, which regarded him as a critical anchor for the country’s economy.
Prior to 1971, central banks held dollars because they believed that greenbacks could, if necessary, be exchanged for gold – the anchor of the system.
This, in turn, would set back China’s ambitions to be the region’s trade anchor.
For within Russia, President Putin does appear to be an isolated island, at least among the Russian elite who have singularly failed to embrace his decision to anchor Russia firmly to the West.
Now is the moment for China to anchor its rise within a stable and mutually acceptable Asian regional order.
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