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The 224-page Vade Mecum on implementing fiscal discipline in the EU is hopelessly complex, to such a degree that no finance minister, let alone parliamentarian, fully understands what his or her country must abide by.
Prominent German scholars expressed the view that, absent credible sanctions, only the threat of forced exit could discipline wayward eurozone members.
Regulation needs to provide the discipline that markets cannot.
But, for Germans, Dutch, and Austrians, interest-rate spreads are not the problem; they are part of the solution, given that they impose discipline that extends beyond European institutions’ new powers.
There is, of course, a balance to be struck between tight institutional discipline and letting a hundred intellectual flowers bloom.
That is the only way to impose real discipline on shareholders, bondholders, and corporate leaders.
Second, the Continent's recent budget discipline will come under attack in a very crude spend and create demand way.
Long term interest rates will rise as savers perceive that discipline is lost, wage increases will be encouraged by pro-labor governments and that means inflation.
My goal is to revive the idea of the EU as an instrument of solidarity, not only of discipline.
Finally, for all the talk today of the discipline that the gold standard supposedly provided, countries that adhered to it regularly suspended convertibility – meaning that the domestic currency could no longer be converted freely into gold.
Haircuts would contain this risk by encouraging closer alignment of each country’s interest-rate spread with its creditworthiness – the essential tool by which markets impose discipline on debtors.
Tough sanctions and constraints, it is said, would also be able to induce debt discipline.
For this reason, it is simply not possible to run a currency union of separate countries without market discipline.
Using climate policy to discipline these industries would help rebalance the economy while taking a bite out of China’s emissions.
Central banks that buy sovereign debt issued by fiscal authorities offset market-imposed discipline on borrowing costs, effectively subsidizing public-sector profligacy.
Biology's Clash of CivilizationsLast summer, at a meeting outside Aspen, Colorado, several dozen physicists gathered to celebrate what the journal Nature described as the "growing feeling that their discipline's mindset will be crucial to reaping the harvest of biology's post-genomic era."
Cheap funding and land revenue have led to excess infrastructure and industrial capacity without adequate market discipline.
For many people, the introduction of the euro meant not only that currency risk – i.e., the risk of devaluation – had disappeared, but also that all euro-zone members now belonged to an economic area of monetary stability and, thanks to the discipline of the Stability and Growth Pact, of fiscal stability.
A common bond would be no cure for a lack of fiscal discipline; on the contrary, it would be no more than a placebo for a “weak” country, but it would also be harmful because it would foster the illusion that it is possible to get out of fiscal difficulty without undertaking fundamental reform.
But, as with the global economy, there is reason to hope that the discipline is on the mend.
Recent changes to the global financial architecture in the wake of the international financial crises aim exclusively at imposing greater market discipline.
By imposing market discipline, it is, in fact, imposing instability.
The lack of consensus on basic features of an economic framework – be it a retirement age commensurate with Europe’s demographic outlook or a legislative commitment to budgetary discipline – makes one wonder how eurozone countries could enter a monetary union in the first place.
Although the lax monetary policy environment of recent years has proven to be relatively efficient in supporting growth, greater fiscal discipline will be needed if increased private investment is to be attracted.
In places like Vietnam, Indonesia, and China – where the pandemic strain will likely originate – expertise, coordination, discipline, and infrastructure are lacking.
When all levels of government are complicit, corruption is a much more challenging phenomenon to combat, and malaise permeates all aspects of society, including tax discipline and trust in official justice.
Was it a failure of discipline and training - the result of sending inexperienced and unworldly reservists into poor conditions, abruptly extending their deployments, and then leaving them understaffed in the face of a growing influx of captured insurgents?
This renewed decline in debt discipline reflects the socialization of potential bankruptcy costs among all eurozone countries by way of establishing joint-liability mechanisms.
Latin American governments obstinately continue to give priority to fiscal discipline and controlling inflation in the hope of attracting foreign investors.
It must privatize state-owned enterprises that suck up public resources; clean up and privatize the financial sector, which remains so government-controlled that it makes fiscal discipline at the subnational level close to impossible; and streamline the system of intergovernmental transfers so that means and ends are clearer.
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