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Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.
This is the story of recent trouble in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Korea, and nearly all emerging markets.
Early market responses to the IMF's intervention are worrying: stock markets in Indonesia and Korea declined 25% and 20% respectively.
Third, the LIA saga highlights SWFs’ potential cumulative effect on the stability of global markets.
Some argue that SWFs’ home governments and host countries have too many mutual interests – including the stability of the financial system and maintaining the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency – to threaten global markets.
The free flow of capital from these regions’ SWFs to corporations in the advanced countries is crucial in order to balance the global economy and provide liquidity to financial markets, especially given the prospect of another recession in the West.
The current efforts to restructure Libya’s Central Bank and LIA will affect markets’ perceptions of other sovereign players in the region.
Although recent reports of the International Working Group of sovereign funds have indicated the difficulties in applying uniform governance standards, several measures are needed in order to bring Libya back to global capital markets.
But if they maintain large budget deficits and continue to monetize them, at some point – after the current deflationary forces become more subdued – bond markets will revolt.
The difficulties intensified when risk aversion in international financial markets increased markedly, owing to other emerging-market defaults.
Using computer modeling to optimize stock-to-cash ratios, portfolio insurance told investors to reduce the weight on stocks in falling markets as a way of limiting downside risk.
In an effort to regain access to capital markets, her economic team patched up things with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors and Spain’s Repsol (the former owner of nationalized oil giant YPF); but the fight with the vultures has set the country back.
Brazil’s swift recovery from the 2008 financial crisis endeared it to international financial markets; but weak growth since then has left yesterday’s promise unfulfilled.
Participating in global value chains is an alternative way to learn by doing that is potentially more powerful than closing markets to foreign competition.
Other countries appear to have adopted a “Field of Dreams” – also known as “build it and they will come” – approach to private credit markets, In the US, for example, artificially low interest rates for home mortgages, resulting from the Federal Reserve’s policy activism, are supposed to kick-start prudent financing.
That view belongs to a school of modern macroeconomics that assumes rational expectations and perfectly functioning markets.
Not only are these assumptions absurd, but so are the conclusions: there is no involuntary unemployment, markets are fully efficient, and redistribution has no real consequence.
Because markets are always efficient, there is no need for government intervention.
The European Central Bank has weighed in with more specific concerns: “Vulnerabilities in financial markets continue to build up amid pockets of high valuations and compressed global risk premia.”
The ECB is particularly concerned about the feedback loop to the eurozone from trouble in other markets.
That concern centers on asset managers: Euro area investment funds are vulnerable to “potential shocks in global financial markets.”
Even though its October World Economic Outlook presents a positive picture of global growth, the IMF, no doubt still conscious of the Panglossian view it offered in 2006, now warns that the world economy is “vulnerable to a sudden tightening of financial conditions” and that “equity valuations appear stretched in some markets.”
And while the Fed’s interest-rate hikes could hardly have been more carefully signaled in advance, there are still concerns that the desired financial tightening in credit markets has scarcely occurred yet, and that, if and when it does, some borrowers could find themselves uncomfortably exposed.
Even though America’s financial markets nearly collapsed, its public-debt levels rose sharply, and the Federal Reserve was forced to undertake massive monetary expansion to support the economy, the dollar strengthened relative to most other currencies.
This can be explained partly by the fact that the United States boasts the world’s deepest and most liquid financial markets.
Capital inflows – which will undoubtedly increase in the coming years – are driven largely by investors’ interest in diversification and high yield, rather than the country’s image as a refuge from troubled financial markets elsewhere, especially given that China’s financial markets are relatively underdeveloped and beset by considerable risks.
Depending on how soon China opens up its capital account and develops its financial markets, the renminbi could become a significant reserve currency in the near future.
In financial markets, the odds do depend on what people think.
Specifically, governments should do more to leverage their spending to support new, innovative businesses, while established companies should open up their operations and cooperate with startups to scale up innovative activities that can inject dynamism into markets.
The Fairness of Financial RescueBERKELEY – Perhaps the best way to view a financial crisis is to look at it as a collapse in the risk tolerance of investors in private financial markets.
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