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Without adequate regulations, individuals and firms have no incentive to take adequate precautions, because they know that much of the cost of extreme events will be borne by others.
It has the resources and skills to analyze these complex events and their consequences, and to formulate and implement regulations and investment programs that mitigate the adverse effects on lives and property.
Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.
But the PTAs that now exist or are being negotiated focus more on regulatory issues than tariffs, and would therefore require participants to reach agreement on a wide range of rules covering, for example, investment, fair competition, health and safety standards, and technical regulations.
Not only is the decline of previously accepted social and financial regulations reflected in the relative, but important, drop in wage income as a percentage of GDP – and therefore consumer spending – in all developed countries in the last thirty years, but also the deliberate abolition of controls allows the banking sector to do as it pleases.
For example, in South Africa it can take up to five years for new medicines to reach the market, owing to that country’s drug-registration and labeling regulations.
US politicians then refused to implement adequate new banking regulations, much less punish those who had caused the crisis and profited handsomely along the way.
Reforms in these countries included the introduction of large-scale and transparent monitoring programs, and new regulations that require banks to include environmental and social risk assessments in their decision-making processes.
The IMF sought to make currencies convertible in commercial transactions but tolerated regulations of capital account transactions.
A central aim for climate financing should be to establish and implement the policies, regulations, and frameworks that will create the appropriate incentives for investors.
The trouble is that in many cases, rules and regulations intended to ensure financial markets’ stability impede the ability of pension funds and others to allocate savings smoothly and efficiently.
The importance of proper regulations cannot be understated.
But if regulations are not well tailored to the various types of market participants and to how markets actually work, they can choke off opportunities that would otherwise benefit investors and the economy.
Such investment involves a variety of products, market players, and jurisdictions, and, as a result, the effect of regulations can be difficult to see, much less quantify.
For starters, the impact of rules and regulations can be direct or indirect.
New regulations are constantly being introduced.
It is important to analyze carefully whether the new regulations are actually needed and, if yes, to foresee and fill regulatory gaps with rules that ensure the smooth flow of savings to new and existing projects.
For example, standardizing regulations relating to covered bonds, green bonds, and cross-border investment through real-estate trusts could encourage more long-term investment.
Prominent examples of regulations with a direct negative impact include existing rules on securitization and proposed rules on asset-based capital charges.
The indirect negative effects of such regulations on long-term investment are, by nature, more difficult to discern, but they can be just as harmful as the direct effects – especially if they leave investors with fewer funds available for long-term investment.
Margin requirements for derivatives transactions have this effect, as do regulations that increase banking costs.
Unnecessarily broad regulations should be avoided in favor of rules that are specifically tailored to the various participants in the market.
This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy interventions that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).
In Congress and state legislatures, Republicans hew to generally unpopular extreme positions – tax cuts for the rich, evisceration of business regulations, lower social spending, and curbs on union activities.
And there are anti-money-laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) regulations to prevent tax evasion, concealment of ill-gotten gains, and other criminal activities such as the financing of terrorism.
In the Wild West of ICOs, most cryptocurrencies are issued in breach of these laws and regulations, under the pretense that they are not securities at all.
And they skirt all AML and KYC regulations, leaving the door open to any criminal investor.
One solution (already advocated by some, including me, and adopted to some extent by a few countries) is broader use of capital-account regulations.
The practice has exposed another facet of China’s egregious human-rights record, which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese companies, includes the government’s failure to enforce its own regulations.
In theory, such practices run counter to regulations promulgated by the Chinese commerce ministry in August 2006, in response to a backlash against Chinese businesses in Zambia following the death of 51 Zambian workers in an explosion at a Chinese-owned copper mine.
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