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These include the protection of property rights, effective contract enforcement, eradication of corruption, enhanced transparency and financial information, sound corporate governance,
monetary
and fiscal stability, debt sustainability, market-determined exchange rates, high-quality financial regulation, and prudential supervision.
As Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, and others have learned, limited controls that target specific markets such as bonds or short-term bank lending do not have a significant impact on key outcomes – the exchange rate,
monetary
independence, or domestic financial stability.
But, for the most part, fiscal and
monetary
policies have so far not followed leaders’ rhetorical promises of deep structural reforms and redistribution to favor the indigenous and the poor.
The Fed, Trump claims, is applying overdoses of
monetary
stimulus to hypnotize voters into believing that economic recovery is underway.
During the financial crisis, the
monetary
authorities were called on to assume temporary emergency powers, including massive purchases of government and private-sector bonds.
When governments and private donors pledge
monetary
aid, the funds typically pass through a chain of large groups that determine how it will be allocated.
Tax cuts and interest-rate normalization, I expected, would shift the mix toward looser fiscal and tighter
monetary
policies, the combination that drove up the dollar in the Reagan-Volcker years.
Knowing full well that
monetary
policy works with lags of 12-18 months, the central bank has to be forward-looking, setting its policy rate on the basis of where it thinks inflation is headed, not on the basis of a backward-looking assessment of where inflation has been.
That could mean that the Fed must contemplate
monetary
tightening that significantly exceeds the so-called comfort zone of normalization that financial markets are currently discounting.
But such policy prescriptions are misguided, because they do not fully consider the role of the financial account in the balance of payments, or that of
monetary
policy in influencing international financial flows.
Given that extraordinarily loose
monetary
policies are causing unprecedented – but predictable – distortions in German and eurozone financial accounts, it seems ill-advised to suggest that German fiscal policy also be loosened to address the current-account imbalance.
More ominously, monetization of these fiscal deficits is becoming a pattern in many advanced economies, as central banks have started to swell the
monetary
base via massive purchases of short- and long-term government paper.
So the question is whether these euro-zone members will be willing to undergo painful fiscal consolidation and internal real depreciation through deflation and structural reforms in order to increase productivity growth and prevent an Argentine-style outcome: exit from the
monetary
union, devaluation, and default.
In part, India’s slowdown paradoxically reflects the substantial fiscal and
monetary
stimulus that its policymakers, like those in all major emerging markets, injected into its economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
So
monetary
policy has since remained tight, with high interest rates contributing to slowing investment and consumption.
Turkey’s Hot-Money ProblemNEW YORK – The ongoing financial volatility in emerging economies is fueling debate about whether the so-called “Fragile Five” – Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey – should be viewed as victims of advanced countries’
monetary
policies or victims of their own excessive integration into global financial markets.
To answer that question requires examining their different policy responses to
monetary
expansion – and the different levels of risk that these responses have created.
In lieu of capital-flow restrictions, Turkey’s
monetary
authorities began to cut overnight borrowing rates in November 2010, in order to reduce the profitability of the carry trade (purchases of foreign-currency assets to take advantage of a higher interest rate).
Paradoxically, while Turkey’s
monetary
authorities acknowledged this relationship, they continued to attribute the decline in credit growth to the success of their prudential measures.
Since the invention of money thousands of years ago, there has never been a
monetary
system with hundreds of different currencies operating alongside one another.
Fiat currencies are also protected from value debasement by central banks committed to price stability; and if a fiat currency loses credibility, as in some weak
monetary
systems with high inflation, it will be swapped out for more stable foreign fiat currencies or real assets.
In fact, the
monetary
union has become a political and economic nightmare, plagued by recession, record-high unemployment, social unrest, and rising distrust among member states.
To escape the crisis, EU leaders must recognize the shortcomings of the eurozone’s one-dimensional framework, and develop a system better suited to managing a multi-faceted
monetary
union.
Similarly, although the one-size-fits-all
monetary
policy contributed to Greece’s excessive indebtedness, and to Spain’s real-estate bubble, eurozone leaders have consistently sought to re-align interest rates, for example, by compelling holders of Greek debt to accept “haircuts” (write-downs on principal).
But the impact is severely limited without external devaluation, which is impossible within a
monetary
union.
This new
monetary
union would be managed according to the original Maastricht Treaty, with a truly independent central bank responsible for regulating the northern euro’s exchange rate against the euro, which less competitive countries would retain.
This focus supported the ascendancy of “inflation-targeting” as the favored
monetary
policy framework and, in turn, led to operational independence for central banks.
Moreover, after the financial crisis erupted, central banks were increasingly compelled to depart from inflation targeting, and to implement myriad unconventional
monetary
policies in order to ameliorate the consequences of the crash and facilitate economic recovery.
In fact, politicization is a matter of scale, not a substantive transformation of
monetary
policymaking.
The first argument in favor of central-bank independence is that, without it, politicians can exploit expansionary
monetary
policy’s positive short-run effects at election time, without regard for its long-run inflationary consequences.
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