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Europe’s leaders do not need to resort to gunboat diplomacy to resolve every political dispute, but they do need to understand how armed forces work as instruments of statecraft.
To be sure, the EU budget contains flexible instruments, such as the EU Solidarity Fund, which provides emergency assistance after natural disasters.
Even without the delays caused by political interference, such instruments are inadequate.
The result is a set of impressive-sounding commitments without instruments for effective implementation.
Given the deadlock that previously prevailed, the deal represents welcome progress; but it, too, lacks adequate instruments to support its ambitions.
There are also substantial investments by American money-market funds in instruments issued by some of the exposed banks.
Objections to the idea start with the question of whether there would be adequate demand for these novel sovereign-debt instruments.
But the literature on related instruments known as collective-action clauses suggests that borrowing costs would rise only for governments approaching the limit of their creditworthiness – that is, close to the cocos’ trigger.
As a consequence, they are crowding into bonds and debt instruments that they view, rightly or wrongly, as safe vehicles.
According to the guidelines, China will have to develop a wide range of new financial instruments, including green credit, green development funds, green bonds, green equity index products, green insurance, and carbon finance.
Not all the instruments for creating that prosperity are known, of course.
Annan had at his disposal all of the instruments of power and opinion that Wallenberg lacked.
The European Central Bank has announced that it will offer new monetary-policy support and has decided to use all instruments short of direct quantitative easing (it is still not buying sovereign bonds).
Schools already have the same legal status as hospitals under international law; they should also be subject to agreements that guarantee that they are never used as instruments of war, as many of them have become.
Just as the International Finance Facility for Immunization provides front-loaded funding mechanisms for health, we now must consider innovative financing instruments, like social impact bonds, that promise not only to increase enrollment, but also to improve student retention and learning.
There are two basic instruments to reduce carbon emissions and thus mitigate global warming.
Not everyone will embrace such instruments.
Other observers claim that further integration, especially progress toward fiscal and political union, would provide the eurozone with alternative instruments – namely, wealth transfers – to improve depressed countries’ competitiveness.
Most Western countries already have instruments to deter foreigners from making unwanted investments, not only in defense industries, but also in other sectors.
At the same time, the eurozone must be equipped with the instruments needed to restore stability and prevent crises from recurring.
Draghi’s subsequent declaration that the ECB Governing Council will use “all the available unconventional instruments” to safeguard price stability and anchor inflation expectations over the medium-to-long term is telling.
They buried the bad mortgages in complicated instruments, buried them so deep that no one knew exactly how badly they were impaired, and no one could calculate how to re-price them quickly.
Adequate financing instruments are required for the right purpose at the right place and at the right scale.
Yesterday’s treaties, particularly those with the United States and Israel, will no longer inspire the same type of confidence they have long had as instruments of state policy.
Their idiom is current; their instruments of change are today’s electronic media.
Moreover, any solution to the crisis must incorporate a wide array of instruments and reforms.
But regulatory and monetary instruments remain national and, thus, incomplete.
Financial integration could catapult financial development for new member countries, including through the advent of new financial instruments and services.
Documentation also allows assets to be used as financial instruments, providing their owners with access to credit and capital.
Any fund manager who claims to have been deluded by the apparently favorable risk-yield characteristics of CMOs or related credit instruments can be accused of having fallen for Milton Friedman’s “free lunch.”
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