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Governments tinker at the margin, cheating a bit, and get reprimanded by the European Commission in Brussels.
In both cases, some questions do arise at the margin.
The motivation behind normalization does not appear to be the eurozone’s inflation performance, which continues to undershoot the target of roughly 2% by an uncomfortable margin.
It seems clear that the extraordinary run-up in equity prices was fueled by a surge in margin financing of stock purchases, which was legalized in 2010-2011 and encouraged by the PBOC’s monetary easing since last November.
They tightened margin requirements in January, and again in April, when they also facilitated short-selling by expanding the number of eligible stocks.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
The British people decided in June 2016 to leave the European Union, by a slim 51.9%-48.1% margin in a national referendum.
I refer to varying margin requirements and the minimal capital requirements of banks.
Today’s sophisticated financial engineering can render the calculation of margin and capital requirements extremely difficult, if not impossible.
If a tightening of margin and minimum capital requirements does not deflate a bubble, regulators can tighten some more.
But this year’s 7% growth rate, which puts Brazil nearly on par with China and India, cannot be sustained, as it exceeds potential growth by a wide margin.
They must consider the mood of the protest movement, as well as opinion polls, which suggest that their popular support lags behind the “republicans” by a nine-to-one margin.
With the reserve ratio of banks already at 19.5% and unlikely to be raised by a large margin, interest rates will most likely continue to be raised.
They will have to get used to the idea that the market already expects the decline, and that they can protect themselves only for that margin of possible future price declines that exceed this expectation.
In particular, they could use production costs in more expensive countries as a proxy for true Chinese costs, increasing both the likelihood of a dumping finding and the estimated margin of dumping.
The latest example is the decision by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government, just re-elected by a razor-thin margin, to deny former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd the formal nomination he needed to join the race to be the next UN Secretary-General.
Over-the-counter trading also contributes to the opacity of derivatives markets, further reducing competition and increasing the margin enjoyed by the traders – and the prices that final users (mostly industrial firms) must pay.
Rather, the challenge is how best to shift incentives at the margin in order to improve the distributional effects.
In addition to being Chile’s first woman president, Bachelet is the first president since 1938 to be elected to a second term, and her margin of victory – 62% to 38% – over the right-wing candidate, Evelyn Matthei, set a new record.
Data published in The Lancet last year show that the top ten most burdensome global diseases are more common in men than women, and often by a large margin.
This suggests, in turn, that the value attached (at the margin) to these other expenditures is less than that attached to environmental preservation.
If young people had turned out at just half the rate of the old, the margin probably would have been reversed.
That is especially true when growth falls below 1%, leaving a thin margin between expansion and contraction.
The downside of such a focused approach is also clear: the margin of choice for EU members about how EGF funds are to be spent in their country would be minimal.
The US is acting under the implicit assumption that if China’s GDP were to surpass that of the US in nominal dollar terms, US economic prospects would be reduced by an amount equal to the margin of China’s gain.
The net interest margin – the spread between what banks pay for deposits and what they charge for loans – has thus narrowed by 0.15 percentage points, to 2.85%.
In the United States, respondents favor trade restrictions by a two-to-one margin.
To take one prominent example, there is a 25% margin of error on purchasing-power-parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.
Post-referendum polls show voters giving priority to single-market access over immigration restrictions by a two-to-one margin or more.
Private electricity producers and one privatized distribution company function as government contractors with a guaranteed margin.
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