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Like Trump, German politicians and lobby groups claim that domestic firms need a tax cut in order to stay competitive internationally.
Yet Germany’s export companies are undeniably very competitive, and have largely managed to increase their global market share since the 1990s.
And it should invest in developing an internationally competitive digital infrastructure and a social security system that ensures labor-force participation and lowers long-term unemployment.
Normally, we would consider these competitive motives to be beggar-thy-neighbor in nature.
When cross-border spillovers militate against taxing carbon and subsidizing technological development in clean industries, boosting green industries for competitive reasons is a good thing, not a bad thing.
But to use that expertise – the most valuable asset a globally competitive financial institution has – investors need to control the operations of firms in which they have a stake.
But it is not in America’s interest to accentuate and extend its payment deficits at the expense of an internationally competitive economy with strong industry and restrained consumption.
Some interpret it to mean that the eurozone has de facto become a fixed exchange-rate system, where exit might actually be preferable for a struggling country and its more competitive partners.
Given the “publish or perish” model that defines academic careers, and the competitive funding environment for all scientists, individuals benefit more from “owning” the data underlying their publications than from sharing their work.
Imitation and adaptation will also be critical here, as will sound regulatory and competitive policies.
As governments pursue a long-term process of economic transformation, African companies will need support to become competitive.
This “new normal” for oil reflects new realities: China’s economic growth – and so its demand for oil – is bound to be lower; the world’s energy efficiency will increase, not least because of commitments made in December at the Paris conference on climate change; and disruptive innovation is making shale oil and gas, along with renewable energy sources, far more competitive.
Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net-creditor positions.
Likewise, weaker eurozone economies like Greece and Spain, which would prefer stronger monetary stimulus than their more competitive counterparts in Europe are willing to accept, may suffer.
Similarly, emerging-market officials warned that monetary expansion in the US and the UK would trigger a wave of competitive currency devaluations, with Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega going so far as to accuse the Fed and the Bank of England of waging a full-blown “currency war.”
The reality is that, under a flexible exchange-rate regime, competitive devaluations do not produce undesirable imbalances.
Meanwhile, the excluded countries would be forced to engage in competitive currency devaluations and other beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
On the contrary, they had a uniquely competitive industrial structure.
This time, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann is warning that the erosion of central-bank independence in some countries – reflected in the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to buy an unlimited number of government bonds to meet its new inflation target of 2% – will trigger competitive exchange-rate devaluations.
In this context, policymakers may reach for the low-hanging fruit of competitive devaluations, leading to a series of unilateral policy measures and retributive responses.
But, while vigilance is in order, the chance that major countries will embrace competitive devaluations – initiating genuine currency wars in the process – is slim.
Elections in Russia today are no more fair, free, or competitive than in Soviet times.
This stands in sharp contrast to the communist mainland, which has reinvented itself to become one of world’s more open, competitive, and dynamic economies.
In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries: transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.
Yet Europe has focused more on enforcing shared values in the tech sector – namely, by strengthening data privacy regulations – than on developing a long-term strategy to become competitive.
The tax would also provide firms with incentives to innovate in ways that reduce energy usage and emissions – giving them a dynamic competitive advantage.
The economic depression of the 1920s in Britain, and of the 1930s in the rest of the world, ushered in a global wave of protectionist, inward-looking policies and beggar-thy-neighbor competitive devaluations.
The public rewards democratic governments for dealing with the downside risk caused by competitive markets – whether by spending to create jobs or by rescuing banks that have dodgy securities on their balance sheets.
Their inflation was lower, and they oriented their policies toward maintaining a competitive exchange rate through the adoption of a so-called “crawling band,” whereby the currency is allowed to fluctuate within a band around a central parity.
Indeed, a third lesson is that neither hard pegs nor unfettered floating facilitate the preservation of a competitive real exchange rate, which is crucial to promoting and sustaining economic development.
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