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In response to asymmetric shocks and divergences in productivity, there would have to be adjustments in the real (inflation-adjusted) exchange rate, meaning that prices in the eurozone periphery would have to fall relative to Germany and northern Europe.
Attacks are usually asymmetric; the barriers to cyberspace are inconsequential and governments have struggled to enforce the rule of law online.
But, while advocates speak of a limited “surgical operation,” what they are really talking about is the start of two wars: an aerial war, led by the US and Israel, and an asymmetric war, led by Iran and its allies.
A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy’s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.
Countries like Germany are adamantly opposed to a fiscal union, with a central EU budget for responding to asymmetric shocks, because they would be the chief contributors.
The Wider Europe Initiative also starts with a good idea: recognition that relations between the EU and its neighborhood are inherently asymmetric.
They should learn about China’s asymmetric relationships with many of its trading partners, and the stark terms of Chinese loans, which have left many borrowers mired in a debt trap.
For example, we now have many models of markets with imperfect competition or asymmetric information.
Improvements in the Russian and Chinese militaries and the increasingly common use of asymmetric strategies by state and non-state actors are leveling the battlefield.
They are facing the argument that the United States’ monetary union works much better because there is a large federal budget to smooth the impact of asymmetric shocks – that is, shocks to individual states.
It is finally confronting the beast that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan unleashed over 30 years ago: the “Greenspan put” that provided asymmetric support to financial markets by easing policy aggressively during periods of market distress while condoning froth during upswings.
But, in the short run, austerity, lower wages, and reforms are recessionary, while the adjustment process in the eurozone has been asymmetric and recessionary/deflationary.The countries that were spending more than their incomes have been forced to spend less and save more, thereby reducing their trade deficits; but countries like Germany, which were over-saving and running external surpluses, have not been forced to adjust by increasing domestic demand, so their trade surpluses have remained large.
It became an “optimal currency area” only in the 1930’s, when the federal government gained the power to ease asymmetric shocks, for example, by conducting fiscal transfers.
After all, we live in a global system in which different countries use different currencies, which implies that residents and non-residents have asymmetric demands for assets issued in those currencies.
The Israel Defense Forces has often complained that it is fighting an asymmetric war in which it ties its own hands by complying with international humanitarian law, while its opponent can ignore those laws and launch attacks against Israeli civilians.
The ECB operates under asymmetric guidelines: it is constitutionally obliged to be concerned only with maintaining price stability, not full employment;Germany still lives with the memory of the Weimar Republic’s runaway inflation, which served as a prelude to the Nazi regime.
That decision could come in the midst of another global financial crisis, recession, or asymmetric shock that pushes several fragile countries out of the euro at the same time.
The looming trade war promises to be asymmetric.
(As economists would say, problems of asymmetric information have increased.)
On the structural front, measures to enhance wage and price flexibility would improve resiliency to asymmetric shocks and would help the new countries' cyclical fluctuations become more attuned to the rest of the EU.
Lending to finance existing assets, primarily in real-estate markets, can thus play an asymmetric role in the real economy.
But, since these devices cost money, asymmetric information always leads to worse results than would otherwise occur.
But just as in used-car and insurance markets, asymmetric information in finance leads to trouble.
This particular model predicts that banks will over-invest in high-risk, high-yield projects, i.e., asymmetric information lets toxic loans onto the credit market.
The theorists of asymmetric information occupy a deviant branch of mainstream economics.
Rather than dealing with asymmetric information, we are dealing with different degrees of no information.
The traumatic experience of the Lebanon war in 2006 has made Israel’s leadership wary of yet another asymmetric war where a clear-cut victory can never be claimed, and where the arithmetic of blood is always bound to turn the casualties of the superior force, Israel, into a domestic crisis.
That vision involves miniscule fiscal transfers to help buffer the asymmetric effects of common shocks.
Inspiring lone wolves and stay-at-home groupies or tight-knit local cells to launch attacks in distant, unpredictable locations is the ultimate weapon of the weak in asymmetric conflicts.
Russia’s Ephemeral Middle East AlliancesNEW YORK – The United States has lost two asymmetric wars in modern times: one against the Vietcong in Vietnam, and another against terrorist groups in the Middle East.
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