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And they certainly don’t want to be pressed to apologize for holding hostage over $800 billion in foreign currency reserves, acquired to resist yen
appreciation.
Simon Johnson, for example, recently argued that mega-regional agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership should be used to discourage countries from intervening in the currency market to prevent exchange-rate appreciation;Fred Bergsten has made a similar argument.
Obviously, German exporters would be hurt by substantial currency
appreciation.
And the US dollar’s substantial
appreciation
in the wake of Trump’s election is likely to make European exports more competitive.
The Fund is staffed by a large number of smart economists, who lack much connection to (and
appreciation
for) the institutional realities of the countries on which they work.
The effects are far from negligible: The best estimates are that a 10%
appreciation
of the Euro will bring a decrease in demand and output of 0.6% of GDP in the Euro area.
So far, the Euro's
appreciation
is close to 30% from the lows of two years ago, and there is every reason to believe that even more strengthening is to come.
(The last thing Japan needs is an
appreciation
of the yen.)
With contraction and Euro
appreciation
comes the specter of falling prices, with which Europe is already flirting.
The Euro's
appreciation
may well be the tipping factor that triggers deflation.
In Europe, monetary caution, self-imposed fiscal constraints, and the Euro's
appreciation
all lead to clear dangers: deflation and a prolonged slump.
The first condition is America's continued willingness to tolerate a sharp
appreciation
of the dollar's exchange rate.
And, while the Chinese yuan has remained more or less unchanged relative to the US dollar in the past year, the dollar’s sharp
appreciation
relative to the euro and other currencies caused the overall trade-weighted value of the yuan to rise.
They found that the median real stock price
appreciation
from 1920 to 1996 for all these countries was only 0.8%, compared to 4.3% for the US.
Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Gordon Brown appear to have a clearer
appreciation
of the Union’s security problems to its east, and so may find the will to act decisively now, rather than dither as their predecessors did when Ukraine moved into crisis in 2004.
Yet, in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, China insisted on maintaining extremely high growth rates of 9% for two years, by relying on fiscal stimulus, huge liquidity injections, and a temporary halt in the renminbi’s
appreciation.
The euro’s rapid
appreciation
against the dollar threatens to undermine this foundation.
In any case, protecting exports by resisting euro
appreciation
– or, more precisely, dollar depreciation – is a poor way to promote economic growth.
Many investors interpreted last August’s unexpected devaluation of the renminbi by 1.9% against the US dollar – the first decline following years of steady
appreciation
– as a last ditch effort by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to stave off an economic crash.
A greater degree of stability in the assessment of an economy’s potential would strengthen decision-makers’ awareness and
appreciation
of longer-term challenges, thereby putting policymaking on a sounder footing.
The statistician and economist Yoichi Takahashi tells me that the yen’s 8%
appreciation
over just ten days in February is abnormal, and probably fueled by speculative attacks.
They cite the dangers of volatile capital inflows, commodity-price fluctuations, and local-currency appreciation, as well as the attendant risks of asset bubbles and inflation.
Add to that exchange-rate
appreciation
and rising minimum-wage floors – not to mention public-sector disbursements indexed to the latter – and Brazil enjoyed a virtuous domestic cycle featuring positive feedback loops between demand for services and formal employment.
Profitability levels in the manufacturing industry were crushed by exchange-rate
appreciation
and rising domestic production costs, and levels of production practically stagnated from 2008, before starting to decline in 2014.
To the extent that the renminbi becomes more expensive,
appreciation
would discourage the influx of foreign capital.
But any currency
appreciation
would also raise peoples’ expectations of further
appreciation
– and thus invite higher capital inflows.
But the experience of 2004-2008 suggests that moderate
appreciation
is not enough.
If the Fed tightens as early as the middle of this year, further dollar
appreciation
is likely.
One priority is to ensure that large, new infusions of aid do not produce unintended economic outcomes, such as rapid currency
appreciation
or inflation, which would make recipient countries’ exports less competitive.
This concern has been reflected, for example, in complaints about intervention by China and other emerging markets to prevent currency
appreciation.
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