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Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and other countries in the group have also used a range of unconventional policy tools – especially changes in reserve requirements for bank liabilities of varying maturities and currency denominations – to manage liquidity and credit.
The system is complex, expensive to administer, and can result in double taxation because members usually do not allow full write-offs for losses and tax liabilities incurred abroad.
But a much lower share of equity often is sufficient to secure de facto control, thus encouraging groups to adapt their capital structure – moving firms in and out of the group’s boundaries – to minimize tax liabilities.
In return, those allies, by holding its liabilities, can help to lower the issuer’s borrowing costs.
Both were forced out only after they became liabilities.
Perhaps the biggest challenges facing China are raising real returns on financial liabilities (deposits and wealth-management products) and promoting more balanced lending.
This includes ensuring that borrowers are accountable and that their liabilities are transparent; deleveraging municipal debt through asset sales and more transparent financing; and shifting the burden of resolving property-rights disputes from regulators to arbitrators and, eventually, to the judiciary.
In the US, more generous assumptions regarding discount rates are used to calculate pension-fund liabilities.
That is slightly less than its liabilities of $4.6 billion in 2015.
The balance is not reported on the ECB’s balance sheet, since it is zero in the aggregate, but it does show up on the respective balance sheets of the national central banks as interest-bearing claims against, and liabilities to, the ECB system.
The counterpart to these claims were the GIPS’ liabilities, which had grown to about €340 billion by the end of last year.
When excess demand is for high-quality assets – places where you can park your wealth and be assured that it will still be there when you come back – the natural response is to have credit-worthy governments guarantee some private assets and buy up others, swapping them out for their own liabilities and thus diminishing the supply of risky assets and increasing the supply of safe assets.
Yet, as I look at the world economy, I see a very different picture – one in which markets’ trust in the quality of government liabilities of the global North’s core economies most certainly is not on the brink of collapse.
According to Standard and Poor’s, for example, “The rating on EFSF reflects our view that guarantees by ‘AAA’ rated sovereigns and freely available liquidity reserves invested in ‘AAA’ securities will, between them, cover all of EFSF’s liabilities.”
This resulted in a “currency mismatch” between dollar liabilities and revenues that were often denominated in local currencies.
But these targets have been organized around the explicit public debt already on the books with absolutely no provision for the implicit debt implied by social security liabilities.
Yet, these liabilities are just as real as the existing public debt and, in quite a few cases, their present value is as high or higher than the public debt numbers.
In Japan, for example, existing public debt is near 100%, but there is an extra 150% of GDP in net pension liabilities.
They all have very large net social security liabilities; they all have excessive entitlements and too few future taxpayers to shoulder the burden.
The result is that net social security liabilities are essentially zero.
These bodies are especially important in providing budgetary estimates, particularly for unfunded long-term liabilities.
The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.
Eventually, the only way out is to reset the value of liabilities via restructuring or inflation.
In the case of a risk-off, emerging markets and advanced-economy financial sectors with massive dollar-denominated liabilities will no longer have access to the Fed as a lender of last resort.
In the US specifically, lawmakers have constrained the ability of the Fed to provide liquidity to non-bank and foreign financial institutions with dollar-denominated liabilities.
Moreover, China now holds a massive volume of overseas assets and liabilities; its non-financial corporations have borrowed as much as $1 trillion abroad.
It is also a way for China to capitalize on the US trade sanctions imposed against it – exposing liabilities in these sanctions.
Of course, the discipline of the market is not perfect: the bond market does not “see” implicit future liabilities (like promised pension payments) to any great degree.
The government likewise subjects officials to lifestyle checks and vets their statements of assets and liabilities to find out if what they have acquired is commensurate with their declared income.
This allowed the government to cap the system’s liabilities while reducing expected final-salary replacement rates by about one-half.
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