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By contrast, China had a fixed investment rate of 41.7% of GDP and a savings rate of 51.9%, reflected in a large surplus.
There is a developing consensus that 'representativeness' and legitimacy can be achieved by including nationals of all member states in the next two Commissions, with a move thereafter to a fixed smaller number based on strictly equal rotation.
Yet, by 2009, the low-hanging fruit had been picked, and investment in fixed capital had fallen below the levels in emerging economies elsewhere.
Are financial markets overestimating the risks in EM fixed income (EM yields are “too high”)?
In the US, as well as in Spain and Ireland, banks and households became what the Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf called “highly leveraged speculators in a fixed asset.”
This would facilitate the production of innovative financial products, link monetary policy more closely with capital markets, and allow fixed assets to become liquid (and vice versa).
No worker would want a long-term employment contract that paid her a fixed number of those units.
And inflation is – like default – a capital levy on holders of public debt, as it reduces the real value of nominal liabilities at fixed interest rates.
Real exchange-rate adjustments inside a monetary union, or among countries with fixed exchange rates, can take place through inflation differentials.
The CFA’s fixed exchange rate peg to the euro shields them from any risk of capital loss at a time when countries around the world are battling to maintain competitive exchange rates in order to export their way out of economic trouble.
Specifically, members of the southern bloc would have fixed, but adjustable, exchange rates with one another and with the northern union.
And low interest rates will encourage firms that do invest to spend on fixed capital like highly automated machines, thereby ensuring that, when recovery comes, it will be relatively jobless.
Economists are familiar with the classic macroeconomic policy “trilemma”: countries cannot have fixed exchange rates, open capital accounts, and an independent monetary policy at the same time.
Today’s Monetary ChoicesFollowing the Asian financial crises and its global repercussions, which included the collapse of fixed exchange rates in Russia and Brazil, debate has raged about how to secure macroeconomic stability.
The alternatives have seemingly boiled down to a choice between systems in which the exchange rate is rigorously fixed and serves as an anchor and those where the exchange rate is allowed to float freely with the central bank targeting a low level of inflation and then doing all it can to hit that target.
Fixed exchange rates were popular in the hard fight against inflation that marked the last two decades in many emerging markets, especially in Latin America.
With inflation's fall, however, policymakers sought greater discretion in managing their exchange rates and moved toward intermediate systems, including fixed but adjustable rates, exchange rate bands, crawling pegs, and pre-announced rates.
Governments, it seems, now prefer to either find institutional mechanisms that guarantee a fixed exchange rate or adopt a free floating system where they refuse to intervene in foreign exchange markets to defend the currency.
That first option – i.e., a strengthened fixed exchange rate, is manifest today in Argentina's currency board, in the establishment of a common currency (as in Europe with its Euro), and the abandonment of national currencies in favor of the dollar, policies adopted by Panama and, recently, by Ecuador.
Despite a big initial devaluation of the real when Brazil abandoned its fixed exchange rate, inflation was maintained near the 8% target set by its monetary authorities.
Experience following the Asian Crisis indicates that stability in the financial sector is critical to avoiding crises and that such stability requires clear monetary rules: either a rigorously fixed exchange rate or an inflation targeting regime.
One danger of fixed exchange rates is the risk of an overvalued or undervalued currency, neither of which is good for economic stability.
The abandonment of fixed exchange rate regimes in south-east Asia touched off an unraveling process that has exceeded everyone's worst fears, including my own.
The basic excise tax has been fixed at 16% of the value of a firm's output.
With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.
Putin and Merkel are fixed compass points not only in Europe.
Countries that ran significant current-account surpluses, built up large reserves, and fixed (or heavily managed) their exchange rates in order to support the first two objectives appeared to secure external stability.
According to this view, there are no economic advantages of such a policy, because the total amount of labor in the economy is fixed.
But as more goods are produced while the wage per worker is fixed, profits increase by exactly the same amount as the value of output does.
Rather than trying to mount a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.
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