Appreciation
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Many emerging economies’ authorities intervene in currency markets to prevent exchange-rate
appreciation
and a loss of export competitiveness.
Given strong expectations of RMB appreciation, internationalization will inevitably lead to a serious currency mismatch, with possibly detrimental consequences for China’s welfare.
When a currency endures a prolonged process of one-way appreciation, speculative capital aimed at exchange-rate arbitrage is bound to seek all chances to flow in.
Hot money will increase currency
appreciation
pressure and complicate macroeconomic management.
If it comes from expectations of RMB appreciation, the success of RMB internationalization can be easily reversed and will cause more problems for China’s monetary authority to solve in the future.
Worse still, if Bank of England Governor Mervyn King is right that above-target inflation is due to imported inflation, raising interest rates has little impact unless it induces sterling appreciation, which would reduce the cost of imports.
Yet, while an unprecedented share of the population supported Uribe’s strategy, and 90% of Colombians view the FARC negatively, public opinion has been largely supportive of Santos’s dialogue with the guerillas, albeit more from frustration than from
appreciation
of Santos’s pragmatism.
Besides damaging public accounts and imposing a severe fiscal sacrifice on the country, the abnormally high level of the Selic rate (the Brazilian overnight interbank rate) inhibited the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship, distorted resource allocation, and impeded the development of the real-estate and capital markets, while causing currency
appreciation.
But it is the Swiss National Bank, which printed money to prevent excessive
appreciation
after pegging its currency to the euro in 2011, that has thrust the sharpest dagger into QE’s heart.
The result is surprisingly orthodox: a sharp decline in Latin America’s average public and private foreign debt, from 44% to 21% of GDP between 2003 and 2007, in part because of the exchange rate
appreciation
generated by the foreign bonanza itself.
Unit labor costs fell in Germany and other parts of the core (as wage growth lagged that of productivity), leading to a real depreciation and rising current-account surpluses, while the reverse occurred in the PIIGS (and Cyprus), leading to real
appreciation
and widening current-account deficits.
It instills in us an
appreciation
for the beauty of mathematics, a belief in the inherent values of education, trust in the intrinsic worth of transnational intellectual communities, and interest in scholarly discussion.
China is fiercely resisting US and European pressure to accelerate the snail-paced
appreciation
of the renminbi against the dollar.
But even the ECB cannot be indifferent to the risks of appreciation, because a strong euro may seriously complicate economic adjustment in countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.
Yes, he should have adopted a more conciliatory style and shown greater
appreciation
for the norms of European negotiations; and, yes, he overestimated Greece’s bargaining power, wrongly assuming that pressing the threat of Grexit would compel his European partners to reconsider their long-entrenched positions.
He refuses to note the renminbi’s large real
appreciation
in recent years, or to acknowledge that, while changes in China’s exchange rate may affect the bilateral trade deficit, what matters is America’s multilateral trade deficit.
The occasion was Brazil’s decision to impose a 2% tax on short-term capital inflows to prevent a speculative bubble and further
appreciation
of its currency.
However, the international outcry obscured an unintended but perhaps more troubling feature of China’s exchange-rate policy: the tendency for sporadic renminbi
appreciation
(even small movements) to trigger speculative inflows of “hot” money.
With short-term interest rates in the United States near zero, and the “natural” interbank interest rate in faster-growing China at near 4%, an expected 3% appreciation, for example, translates into an “effective” interest-rate differential of 7%.
For example, if an employer (particularly an exporter) fears future renminbi appreciation, he may hesitate to raise wages in line with productivity increases, in order to keep his costs under control.
They certainly have been since the end of World War II; but in their face-to-face televised debates and on the campaign trail, the candidates seem to evince little
appreciation
of the role of institutionalized security arrangements (much less international law) over the past 70 years.
People seemed to think that rapid
appreciation
in these markets had become a universal constant, like the speed of light.
In 2005, China was experiencing currency appreciation, which, as other fast-growing economies in East Asia have demonstrated, can stimulate the government and businesses to pursue structural reforms and industrial upgrading.
For example, firms in China’s export-dependent coastal regions have been burdened by renminbi
appreciation
since 2004.
They are resisting
appreciation
through foreign-exchange intervention and capital controls.
Capital-account liberalization and renminbi internationalization invite potentially volatile cross-border capital flows, which could, for example, trigger rapid currency
appreciation.
Unfortunately, the stubbornness of the ECB and the European Commission is now providing ammunition to populist governments in accession countries that are counting on currency
appreciation
to escape the fiscal discipline that adopting the Euro would imply.
The three-percentage-point difference implies that the “real” inflation-adjusted renminbi-dollar exchange rate rose 9% over the past year (i.e., 6% nominal
appreciation
plus the 3% inflation difference.)
Other regions within EMU will need monetary tightening or currency
appreciation.
A more promising development is that, according to the Third Plenum road map, farmers must receive a fair share of the profits from land-value appreciation, and will be entitled to transfer their land or use it as collateral.
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