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This was precisely the point that Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, made in a 2009 speech challenging the view that only the US, through the dollar, could guarantee the functioning of the international
monetary
system.
As Zhou pointed out, the US dollar’s
monetary
dominance is underpinned by the Bretton Woods institutions, created after World War II.
Reforming the international
monetary
system, therefore, means reforming the governance of the multilateral financial institutions – an argument that China emphasized during its G20 presidency last year.
As the US retreats from the world stage and a multipolar global order emerges, the international
monetary
system may well be transformed – but probably not into a renminbi-led system.
The members that we represent – advanced and emerging countries in Asia and Europe – want to play a role in re-establishing a strengthened IMF at the heart of the international
monetary
system.
By early adoption I mean the shortest permissible period of time - two years - following a new member subordinating its
monetary
policy to the fiscal and
monetary
constraints of the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II).
Equally, the transition period is already turbulent, with convergence-driven capital flows driving up exchange rates and complicating
monetary
policy in several candidate countries, including Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
Short-term market interest rates will fall, but, as investors begin to recognize the ultimate inflationary consequences of very loose
monetary
policy, longer-term interest rates will rise.
When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease
monetary
policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese-style slow growth.
There are, no doubt, substantial risks of increased unemployment in the backwash of
monetary
unification, particularly when you factor in the already high unemployment levels in most European countries.
Two earlier attempts at closer
monetary
cooperation in Europe, the Werner Plan initiated in 1971 and the European
Monetary
System (EMS) of 1979, both failed.
It does not take into account the financial cycle, and thus produces excessively expansionary and asymmetric
monetary
policy.
Unfortunately,
monetary
policymakers’ effort to operationalize the objective of ensuring that the value of money remains stable has taken on a life of its own.
By undermining the efficient allocation of capital and fostering mal-investment, CPI-focused
monetary
policy is distorting economic structures, blocking growth-enhancing creative destruction, creating moral hazard, and sowing the seeds for future instability in the value of money.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, many central banks used intermediate targets, including
monetary
aggregates.
Short-term consumer-price stability does not guarantee economic, financial, or
monetary
stability.
In describing the success of the Toyota and Linux networks, the Boston Consulting Group concludes that the hard power of
monetary
carrots and accountability sticks motivates people to perform narrow, specified tasks, but that the soft power of admiration and applause are far more effective stimulants of extraordinary behavior.
“A possible implication of this finding,” the ECB concluded, “is that policies aimed at stimulating aggregate demand (including fiscal and
monetary
policies) should play an even more important role in the economic policy mix.”
This left
monetary
policy the only available stimulus tool.
As a result, analysts and policymakers have started mooting ideas for unconventional fiscal policy to supplement unconventional
monetary
policy.
There is indeed the obvious danger that governments might easily become addicted to
monetary
finance to pay for private and public spending, which is why it is unlikely to be tried openly unless economic conditions worsen significantly.
The second reason why the Fed has global responsibilities is that its policies affect
monetary
conditions worldwide.
The standard trilemma of international
monetary
policy holds that countries cannot have fixed exchange rates,
monetary
independence, and free capital movement simultaneously, but they can have two of the three.
Simply put, populations are losing faith that the global development orthodoxy of good governance (including
monetary
and fiscal discipline) and free markets can benefit them.
Just as we have no global tax mechanism to ensure the provision of global public goods, we have no global
monetary
or welfare policies to maintain price stability and social peace.
The central bank is perhaps the most important of these institutions, for it conducts
monetary
policy (and sometimes serves as the financial-sector regulator).
Electoral cycles (and the accompanying political pressures) are such that
monetary
policy, banking, and many other areas of policy and economic activity must be overseen by those with professional competence and a much longer time horizon than that of politicians.
The financial impact was immediate: in anticipation of
monetary
easing, and after it began, the euro fell sharply, bond yields in the eurozone’s core and periphery fell to very low levels, and stock markets started to rally robustly.
Finally, Europe’s
monetary
union remains incomplete.
Thus, the ECB’s
monetary
policy will take on an increasingly beggar-thy-neighbor cast, leading to trade and currency tensions with the United States and other trade partners.
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