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In Liberia, 60% of markets are now closed; in Sierra Leone, only one-fifth of the 10,000 HIV patients who are on anti-retroviral treatments are still receiving them; and Guinea’s government is reporting a $220 million financing gap because of the crisis.
When the Soviet Union was collapsing, Robert Shiller, Maxim Boycko, and Vladimir Korobov surveyed residents of Moscow and New York regarding their attitudes toward free markets.
The same is true of a long list of items: the spread of infectious diseases, the stability of global financial markets, the international trade system, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime syndicates and transnational terrorism.
The V-20 group of finance ministers of vulnerable nations recently committed to introducing carbon-pricing mechanisms across 43 markets within ten years.
We established democratic institutions, replaced five-year-plans with markets, privatised most state assets.
A Bumpy Ride for Emerging MarketsBERKELEY – Emerging markets have been the darlings of global investors for most of the last decade.
Slowing growth and policy missteps, together with signs that the US Federal Reserve will start tightening monetary policy by scaling back its “quantitative easing” (QE, or open-ended purchases of long-term assets), have triggered deep sell-offs in emerging economies’ currency, bond, and equity markets.
FDI flows, which are less volatile than other capital flows, remained by far the largest, accounting for nearly 60% of emerging markets’ total inflows in 2012.
Forthcoming research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) estimates that emerging markets accounted for about 15% of all cross-border portfolio bond flows during this period – an all-time high.
Faster growth and higher interest rates in emerging markets relative to those in developed economies encourage capital flows to the former, while an increase in global risk aversion – for example, during the eurozone crisis in 2011 – discourages them.
The IMF finds that emerging markets’ net capital inflows have been above their long-term structural trend and more sensitive to interest-rate differentials since 2008.
The MGI also finds that, compared to pre-crisis trends, portfolio-debt inflows to emerging markets were larger than predicted between 2009 and 2012.
The recent decline in capital flows to emerging markets is also consistent with theory.
For starters, the growth-rate differential favoring emerging markets has declined.
China’s slowdown and prolonged recession in parts of Europe have weakened demand in global commodity markets, depressing growth in commodity-exporting countries like Brazil, Russia, and South Africa.
As the 2008 and 2011 experiences demonstrate, heightened risk aversion among global investors reduces capital flows to emerging markets, even when they are not the source of risk.
Higher long-term interest rates in the US (and expectations of further hikes) are eating into the interest-rate differentials that attracted yield-hungry investors to emerging markets from 2009 to 2012.
The losses in emerging-market currencies and assets in recent months are a harsh reminder of an inconvenient truth: when the Fed tightens monetary policy to manage macroeconomic conditions in the US, there are large unintended spillover effects on capital flows to emerging markets.
We saw this before in the events precipitating the financial crises that engulfed emerging markets in the late 1990’s.
But some countries are at risk, especially those with large current-account deficits, large foreign capital inflows relative to the size of their financial markets, and low foreign-exchange reserves.
At the recent annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde expressed concern about slowing growth in emerging markets and urged them to pursue additional economic reforms.
If they do nothing while South Korea continues to conclude FTAs, Japan will lose markets in the US and China.
The Value of China’s DevaluationSANTA BARBARA – Earlier this month, global financial markets nearly imploded.
But China has been taking concerted steps to expand the use of the renminbi, including signing swap agreements with more than two dozen countries, actively encouraging offshore markets for renminbi deposits and bonds, and moving cautiously to open domestic capital markets.
First, Americans are much less dependent than others on world markets, owing to the sheer size of their own.
While Merkel opposes Hollande’s proposal to create Eurobonds with a view to financing industrial projects, they cannot afford to waste time in reassuring jittery markets with a message of cohesion.
For the emerging economies, with their relatively illiquid financial markets, such trends encourage over-dependence on low-cost external capital, which can be withdrawn in a heartbeat.
In short, emerging economies have been challenged by externally generated macroeconomic shifts, unconventional monetary policies, widespread volatility, and slow growth in developed markets.
The high fixed and low variable costs of these technologies mean that once robots become more cost-effective than human labor, the trend will not reverse, especially given that automated assembly can be located close to markets, rather than where labor is cheapest.
The End of Trump’s Market HoneymoonNEW YORK – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, stock markets rallied impressively.
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