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The bottom line is that the current version of US biofuels policy, with its fixed requirement for blending, leads to a greater price response in the event of a crop shortfall – in the short run.
The length of this period should be fixed, and should not depend on actions or conditions that are at least partly under executives’ control.
Just as business and credit cycles there tend to be more frequent and extreme, the real possibility of de facto currency crises in the eurozone, owing to higher sovereign borrowing costs and slow adjustment to shocks under fixed exchange rates, renders massive balance sheets unsupportable and thus obsolete.
Three types of exchange rate regimes are possible and have existed at various times in various countries:(a) A truly fixed exchange rate or unified currency.
All had national central banks with the power to create money that committed themselves to maintain the price of their domestic currency in terms of the U.S. dollar at a fixed level, or within narrow bounds -- a policy that they had been encouraged to adopt by the IMF.
The IMF was established at Bretton Woods in 1944 to serve one purpose only: to supervise the operation of the system of fixed exchange rates established at Bretton Woods.
Two points stand out from this analysis:(a) Of the three possible exchange rate regimes for a developing country, either a truly fixed rate with no national central bank or a floating rate plus a national central bank is preferable to a pegged exchange rate.
After World War II, the world adopted the Bretton Woods system, whereby countries maintained fixed exchange rates against the dollar, and capital was largely immobile at the international level.
With so many risks in so many places, investors, not surprisingly, will eventually prize liquidity in their portfolios, while shunning riskier fixed assets again when these tail risks materialize.
In the mid-1980s, income per capita (in fixed prices) was the same as it had been in 1955.
Diplomats can work with one another; referenda are binary and fixed, leaving none of the political wiggle room and scope for creative compromise needed to resolve political problems.
The result was an astounding surge in business fixed investment in computers and other information technology hardware.
Likewise, more nitrogen fertilizer is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.
Third, not only is fixed income more illiquid, but now most of these instruments – which have grown enormously in number, owing to the mushrooming issuance of private and public debts before and after the financial crisis – are held in open-ended funds that allow investors to exit overnight.
The public policy interests of business are not fixed, shifting according to changes in the overall economy, trends in domestic and international markets, and the actions of business leaders.
It cannot be regulated away or fixed by technology or surveillance.
And by pre-selecting fixed categories of people for heightened scrutiny, the authorities overlook those who do not fit the profile.
A debtor contracts to pay a fixed sum in interest every year.
That requires contracts that do not come with a fixed expiry date.
It envisaged fixed currencies, which would require limited overdraft facilities for countries in chronic deficit and would entail constant haggling between finance ministers about re-setting exchange and interest rates.
With a huge potential global market to amortize the upfront fixed costs of design and testing, the incentives to invest are compelling.
This was subsequently replaced with a two-tier exchange-rate system making the rupee partially convertible--60% of export earnings could be converted at the market exchange rate, and the rest at the RBI's fixed rate (used by the government to finance essential imports like petroleum, cooking oil, fertilizers, and life-saving drugs).
Now, with so much fixed capital and infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami, the economy’s productive capacity has fallen by an estimated 2% of GDP.
The country’s creditors should now negotiate a consensual debt reduction through some combination of lower (and fixed) interest rates, reduced face value of debt, and very long maturities.
Politicians — like President Jacques Chirac in France, Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and a number of European finance ministers -- continue to press for fixed, even lower, interest rates.
By committing to purchase large amounts of high-quality products that address major national challenges, governments can encourage private, public, or mixed organizations to incur the fixed costs of finding solutions.
They are domestic in nature and cannot be fixed by rule making through international institutions, which are easily overwhelmed by the same vested interests that undermine domestic policy.
As it stands, there are considerable disparities between the one-year fixed deposit rate (3%); the official lending rate (6-8%) reserved for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), large corporations, and mortgages; and the market lending rate (10-20%) paid by private business and local-government projects that rely on shadow banking.
Not only are fixed salaries revealed, but so are bonuses, fees for serving on boards of directors, returns on stock options, pension packages, and other perks, such as corporate jets or chauffeur-driven cars.
Allowing managers to buy shares at prices fixed in advance was intended to align their interests with those of other shareholders by giving them a personal stake in building the value of the company.
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