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But what use is “high” finance?
Economists’ conventional description depicts high finance as providing us with three types of utility.
First, it allows for many savers to pool their wealth to finance large enterprises that can achieve the efficiencies of scale possible from capital-intensive modern industry.
Second, high finance provides an arena to curb the worst abuses by managers of large corporations.
Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.
But these are the benefits of high finance as they apply to the ideal world of economists – that is, a world of rational utilitarian actors who are skilled calculators of expected utility under uncertainty, who are masters of dynamic programming, and who breathe stochastic calculus in their daily life.
If we take the world as it really is, we quickly see that high finance performs two further tasks that advance our collective economic welfare.
But the nominees presented by the LDP government of Prime Minister Taro Aso (who is now Abe’s finance minister) were repeatedly rejected by the Diet’s upper house, which was controlled by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
The DPJ claimed that these candidates were too closely tied to the finance ministry, owing to long careers there, to act independently of it.
But, in order for Japan to avoid being unrepresented by its central banker at a looming G-7 meeting of finance ministers, an agreement was reached at the last minute to appoint Shirakawa.
But, instead of a debate about monetary policy, the only question being asked is whether Shirakawa’s successor will come from the finance ministry, academia, or business.
They stepped in when private markets froze, acting as lenders and dealers of last resort, and provided additional liquidity to grease the wheels of finance.
The C-6 swap club’s members may be correct in thinking that global finance requires more proactive central banking.
But, in recent years, China became an obstacle to Qaddafi’s African ambitions, and China did so by copying his methods: buying the support of dictators with weaponry and finance.
Yet, during the years of Angola’s pariah status, China provided large-scale infrastructure finance in return for oil.
Currency ChaosBRUSSELS – Guido Mantega, Brazil’s finance minister, aptly captured the current monetary Zeitgeist when he spoke of a looming “currency war.”
Those who support the decision argue that India’s supply chains are simply too wasteful, and that only the finance and knowhow of big, international retail chains can upgrade them.
In Defense of VaroufakisLONDON – From blaming him for the renewed collapse of the Greek economy to accusing him of illegally plotting Greece’s exit from the eurozone, it has become fashionable to disparage Yanis Varoufakis, the country’s former finance minister.
And they evidently also made it clear to Varoufakis’s boss, Tsipras, that the future of negotiations depended on him casting aside his unconventional minister – which he did, first by assigning someone else to lead the negotiations and then by appointing a new finance minister altogether.
Added scrutiny from these institutions is welcome, because development finance can be a powerful tool for safeguarding human rights, so long as the communities it most affects have a say in how it is put to use.
More than 100 civil-society organizations from around the world have launched a campaign to urge development finance institutions and their shareholder governments to respect human rights in their projects, promote an environment for safe participation in development processes, and ensure that their investments do not put human-rights defenders at risk.
With the demand for an IFFEd well established, we are ready to bring the call for a mass mobilization of international finance for education to those who can make it happen.
Presidents must pressure their planning, education, and finance ministers to work with the health ministry and other key stakeholders to create a national plan that focuses the government's energies.
A European finance ministry should be created, and its head should preside over the Eurogroup (which convenes the finance ministers of eurozone member states).
Months later, Tsipras and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, an academic expert in game theory, still seem committed to this view, despite the lack of any evidence to support it.
If Greece had defaulted in January, this primary surplus could (in theory) have been redirected from interest payments to finance the higher wages, pensions, and public spending that Syriza had promised in its election campaign.
Given this possibility, Varoufakis may have believed that he was making other EU finance ministers a generous offer by proposing to cut the primary surplus from 4% to 1% of GDP, rather than all the way to zero.
How would the EMF finance its interventions?
China’s Quest for ValueBEIJING – At the end of September, a new free-trade zone was launched in Shanghai, the aim being to mark the start of a new era not only of openness in investment, trade, and finance, but also of deeper Chinese integration into the global value chain.
At the same time, it should preserve a level playing field by explicitly prohibiting rule changes, limiting the establishment of entry and exit barriers in various industries, and using taxation, finance, and brand authentication to cultivate core competitiveness.
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