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Such a new platform should also be used to work towards structural reform of the international
monetary
system aimed at reducing its excessive reliance on the US dollar as a reserve currency.
Unconventional
monetary
policy in the United States – and in other advanced countries, particularly the United Kingdom and Japan – drove down domestic interest rates, while flooding international financial markets with liquidity.
Under these conditions,
monetary
contraction (or slowing expansion) would have a recessionary (or a less stimulative) impact on other economies.
With flexible exchange rates, however, monetary-policy contraction in a major economy would stimulate other economies in the short run, while
monetary
expansion would damage their performance.
(To be sure, in the medium or long run,
monetary
expansion can facilitate increased domestic production and trade, thereby generating positive spillover effects.)
Likewise, weaker eurozone economies like Greece and Spain, which would prefer stronger
monetary
stimulus than their more competitive counterparts in Europe are willing to accept, may suffer.
In fact, the Fed – and other advanced-country central banks – should not be blamed for the negative effects of
monetary
expansion, either.
Japan’s bold
monetary
easing, for example, was a critical element of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy for lifting the Japanese economy out of more than a decade of recession – and it has led to a remarkable recovery.
Similarly, emerging-market officials warned that
monetary
expansion in the US and the UK would trigger a wave of competitive currency devaluations, with Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega going so far as to accuse the Fed and the Bank of England of waging a full-blown “currency war.”
The fact is that, with a flexible exchange rate, a country can offset the recessionary impact of a neighboring country’s
monetary
easing using its own independent
monetary
policy, guided by carefully chosen inflation targets.
Consistent with recoveries from such recessions, demand has grown slowly, despite unprecedented fiscal and
monetary
stimulus, and that explains why the unemployment rate remains high.
Yet the technocrats are back, now advocating a fiscal union to support the
monetary
union, with political union nowhere in sight.
If European
monetary
union is not leading toward the desired end, it – not the goal of ever-closer union – should be altered.
But, whereas fiscal stimulus boosts growth at home and abroad, enabling mutual reinforcement through world trade,
monetary
policy is guided primarily by domestic goals, and, in the short term, one country’s gain can be another’s loss.
The eurozone went one step further, aiming through
monetary
unification to eradicate fully the transaction costs associated with national currencies and exchange-rate risk.
The delegation of
monetary
policy to an independent central bank is the archetypal example: in the service of price stability, daily management of
monetary
policy is insulated from politics.
The second would mean giving up on
monetary
union in order to be able to deploy national
monetary
and fiscal policies in the service of longer-term recovery.
Similarly, the monopolistic structure was alleged to render
monetary
policy ineffective.
The eurozone’s experience during the recent financial crisis – especially when contrasted with that of the United States – highlighted the need for rapid, flexible decision-making by governments, not just
monetary
authorities.
One such idea also envisages the creation of sovereign-debt backed collateralized debt obligations While CDOs would not require any joint guarantees, they would help to enforce market discipline, while making it easier for the European Central Bank to implement
monetary
policy.
The answer, of course, will depend on monetary, fiscal, trade, and related policies in the United States and around the world.
On this front, I predict that the major central banks will continue to normalize
monetary
policies more gradually than is necessary.
The contractionary fiscal and
monetary
policies imposed by the Stability Pact and a European Central Bank fixated on inflation have taken a heavy toll.
A better mix of fiscal and
monetary
policies and sustained measures to enhance productivity and competitiveness remain necessary conditions for addressing America’s labor-market challenges.
Yes, the Federal Reserve could tighten
monetary
policy.
Eurozone member countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all working toward the same objectives – to boost demand and support job creation – at the same time, within the limited scope of conventional
monetary
and fiscal policies.
Weidmann should take a more constructive approach, encouraging central banks to discuss ways in which
monetary
policy can complement fiscal policy to support economic growth and job creation, and consider those policies’ impact on other countries.
In parallel, the ECB has announced an “outright
monetary
transactions” (OMT) program to purchase bonds already trading on the secondary market.
Calm has returned to financial markets, amid ironclad assurances by the European Union authorities – particularly the European Central Bank – that the
monetary
union will be preserved.
The obvious question is why the eurozone recovery is waning, even amid highly supportive expansionary
monetary
policies.
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