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The first step for China should be to reaffirm the authorities’ 2013 commitment to ensuring that
markets
play a decisive role in allocating resources.
Although trading partners like the US may object to the state-led nature of this approach, the end result will be more stable and dynamic
markets.
With high unemployment in many parts of the labor market, downward pressure on wages will further exacerbate the country’s already skewed income-distribution.Labor
markets
will eventually clear, but this will happen slowly and painfully, owing to skills gaps and other short-term mismatches.
And, however committed the China pessimists are to free markets, there is no denying that China’s state-controlled economy has lifted millions of people out of poverty and created a rapidly burgeoning middle class.
These include tax policy, the inefficient or improper use of public funds, impediments to structural change in product and factor markets, and mismatches between the reach of global financial institutions and the capacity of sovereign balance sheets to intervene in case of financial distress.
Although women do head central banks in 17 emerging
markets
– including Malaysia, Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Lesotho, and Botswana – they are the exceptions that prove a general rule: women are excluded from the world of monetary policymaking.
Although President George W. Bush says he believes in markets, in this case he has called for voluntary action.
But it makes far more sense to use the force of
markets
– the power of incentives – than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as maximizing profits, regardless of the cost to others.
From a broader historical perspective, stock
markets
always experience booms and busts.
Against this backdrop, it is no surprise that the US Federal Reserve’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last month focused on the dominance of digital platforms and the emergence of “winner-take-all” markets, not global debt.
Instead of looking for the “Minsky Moment” when today’s bull
markets
run out of steam (for they definitely will), we should perhaps give more thought to this trend, which Schwab calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Some attribute the Asian economic miracle to freer markets, while others believe that state intervention did the trick.
Dual labor
markets
are a problem throughout the EU.
The precipitating factor that led to the current situation has to do with our evolving world culture, spread rapidly through enhanced media outlets and the Internet, and its perceptions of the
markets.
It has to do with the deep admiration of
markets
that has developed during the boom, in line with the “efficient
markets
theory” in academic finance.
It became widely believed that financial
markets
are such sublime poolers of information that they represent a collective judgment that transcends that of any mere mortal.
The boom in the world’s housing
markets
and stock
markets
between 2003 and 2006 was caused by this faulty idea, and the idea that investments in homes and equities are a sure route to wealth.
People seemed to think that rapid appreciation in these
markets
had become a universal constant, like the speed of light.
There is no theory in economics that provides a reason to think that prices in these
markets
can only go up.
The booms in these
markets
can be traced substantially to the growth of the idea that one should always continually hold as many of these assets as possible, just as that you should drink green tea or eat dark chocolate every day for antioxidants.
The essence of the recent financial crisis is that international bank loans flew into the "emerging
markets"
during the years 1993-96, only to flee these same
markets
in 1997 and after.
According to recent data prepared by the investment bank J. P. Morgan, international banks lent the 25 main emerging
markets
a total of $100 billion in net loans (that is, loans minus repayments) in 1995, $121 billion in 1996, and $46 billion in 1997, only to demand net repayments of $95 billion in 1998.
They decided that they had to get out of emerging
markets
as fast as possible because all other banks were getting out.
Helping developing countries grow will stimulate investment opportunities for EU companies and open new
markets
for their goods.
If she had acted more boldly, she might have lost even more support, but the steps that she agreed to remained insufficient to reassure
markets.
Unlike Chinese industry, Russia’s manufacturing branches were almost completely cut off from world markets, both by the Cold War and by Soviet planning.
All of these industries will benefit from the potential for enormous demand growth in large markets, such as China, Africa, and India.
Back in 1991, many thought that Russia could not end high inflation, adopt a market economy, or compete effectively in world
markets.
In a country with stringent regulations and underdeveloped financial markets, private entrepreneurs face high barriers to starting and operating businesses.
If illicit deals are what it takes to gain access to the resources and
markets
they needed, private firms have been more than willing to strike them, offering cash or other payments to officials who bent or broke rules on their behalf.
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