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Many of them are highly productive, but their profits do not quite cover the fixed costs of exporting.
In ten countries, largely in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, fixed broadband prices exceed per capita GDP.
The Chinese can delay, but they can't hide from a fundamental economic law: if the exchange rate between the currencies of two countries is fixed and capital flows between them are unrestricted, the economically dominant one will exercise control over the monetary policy of the other.
Because the dollar is the dominant world reserve currency, and America's Fed controls the supply of US dollars, as long as China sticks to a fixed exchange rate, it cannot control its own money supply.
To maintain the fixed exchange rate the Chinese central bank would need to offset this by increasing the money supply--the opposite of what it set out to do in the first place.
Similarly, any attempt to increase the money supply by lowering interest rates would fail as long as the exchange rate between the renminbi and dollar remains fixed.
If America pursued a policy of price stability and China kept its exchange rate fixed to the dollar, wouldn't China have price stability as well, without worrying about its money supply, which would, in effect, be set by the Fed?
The current conflict between China and the US recalls the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates thirty years ago.
The primary check was that other countries could demand conversion of their growing dollar reserves into gold at the fixed price of $35 per ounce.
With the credibility of Chinese economic policy continuing to be based on the fixed exchange rate, any flotation must be part of a larger program of reform.
So, for now, China can bring monetary expansion under control while keeping the exchange rate fixed.
With the housing sector accounting for 10% of GDP and investment in real-estate development accounting for 25% of total fixed investment, any decision to rein in runaway housing prices will be difficult.
Finally, and perhaps most important, such an approach would be more politically attractive than a fixed carbon tax, especially if it is introduced at a time of sharply declining oil prices.
Historically, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had fixed the renminbi’s exchange rate on a daily basis, without regard to underlying market sentiment; and it had allowed for the renminbi to trade only within very narrow limits.
As Argentina's economy unravels in street demonstrations, food riots, and political tumult, conventional wisdom suggests that a lethal combination of reckless government spending and a fixed exchange rate is to blame.
Notwithstanding the fixed exchange rate, which limited monetary growth to that of the bank's dollar reserves, he argued that economic recovery required an expansionary credit policy.
The standard view among economists is that relaxing monetary policy under a fixed exchange rate regime will cause capital to flee, especially when investors are already jittery about the effects of a devaluation in a largely dollarized economy, which typically involves a bank bailout and a loss in reserves to pay for it.
Since their deposits far exceeded Argentina's international reserves, the central bank's decision to prop up their reserves with fresh injections of credit reinforced expectations that the fixed exchange rate was doomed.
His “under-employment equilibrium” is a form of gravitational pull rather than a fixed condition.
Under the gold standard, the dollar was convertible into gold at a fixed price of $20.67 an ounce.
They fixed the exchange rate of the Argentina Peso at a value of one Peso per US dollar, and promised that the exchange rate would never change.
If the exchange rate is irrevocably fixed, that safety valve disappears.
Fourth, the IMF and others should stop peddling monetary mischief such as currency boards and fixed exchange rates.
Yes, total fixed investment is approaching an unprecedented 50% of GDP, but residential and nonresidential real estate, combined, accounts for only 15-20% of that – no more than 10% of the overall economy.
Newspapers and broadcast organizations, like political parties, were expensive to set up, but, once established, they benefited from economies of scale – operating costs remained relatively fixed as circulation (or party membership) grew.
Life is far too complex and changeable to be governed by fixed rules.
Put differently, the Brazilian private sector prefers investing in government bonds to investing in fixed capital.
Price ceilings are automatically revised annually by a built-in inflation adjustment and a fixed annual reduction in price (called the "X-factor" deduction) that shares part of the firm's added profits with consumers in the form of lower prices.
The government should then announce its selected "X"-deduction number, say 2 percent per year, and not reduce prices for consumers more than this amount for some fixed period, say five years.
And, as former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently noted, “US fixed capital investment has fallen far short of the level that history suggests should have occurred, given the dramatic surge in corporate profitability.”
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