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The banks claim that higher capital
requirements
and other regulations will drive up the cost of credit.
Higher equity-capital
requirements
for banks are good for the broader economy – they make financial crises (and the zombie-syndrome) less likely, less severe, or both.
And equity-capital
requirements
for large, systemically important financial institutions remain too low.
Instead, developing-country leaders must draw on the experiences of both developed countries and their peers to design tax policies that meet the basic
requirements
of operability, buoyancy, and stability.
Even a small decrease in bond and equity prices could force investors to sell securities in order to raise cash to meet margin
requirements.
Most face constitutional
requirements
to run balanced budgets, which means that such states are now either raising taxes or cutting expenditures –a negative stimulus that offsets at least some of the Federal government’s positive stimulus.
Emerging markets have resorted to a variety of instruments to limit private-sector borrowing abroad: taxes, unremunerated reserve requirements, quantitative restrictions, and verbal persuasion.
Similarly, Chilean-style unremunerated reserve
requirements
may be easier to evade in countries with extensive trading in sophisticated derivatives.
They could buy bad loans from lenders and forgive part of the principal payable by borrowers, simultaneously reducing lenders’ collateral
requirements
and borrowers’ debt overhang.
It will require years of hard work to reconcile America’s resources and requirements, and to ensure that its initiatives can once again be seen as designed not to serve narrow US ideologies, but to advance a fair international order.
Governments have played a major role in domestic media for decades, using regulation of broadcast frequencies and licensing
requirements
to shape the market.
The combination of pay-for-performance contracts and progressive federalism seems to meet both sides’
requirements.
Expectations of a greater FSB focus on shadow banking stem not only from non-bank financial institutions’ role in fueling the 2008-2009 crisis, but also from the concern that stiffer capital and liquidity
requirements
for banks might shift risk away from the financial sector’s regulated core.
Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by
requirements
of transparency and disclosure.
While the US president can instruct administrative agencies like the Commerce Department or the Treasury Department to take specific actions (as long as they do not conflict with valid legislation), the administration cannot tell the Fed how to manage interest rates, reserve requirements, or any other aspects of monetary policy.
The proposed legislation is full of excessive and impossible requirements, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not be able to pass it, even in modified form.
Believing FEMA to be an “oversized entitlement program” and that the “business of government is not to provide services,” Bush’s first FEMA director instituted new outsourcing
requirements
as part of a major privatization effort.
National regulators are exploring ways to vary ratio
requirements
over the business cycle, and have started subjecting banks to regular “stress tests.”
But, when it comes to upping equity
requirements
against “risk-weighted assets,” who is to do the weighting, and according to what methodology?
But even where the European Commission had the legislative tools and political mandate to impose sanctions – for example, to punish non-compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact – member states managed to avoid punishment by “reforming” the
requirements.
It could promote its industries through high tariffs, explicit subsidies, domestic content
requirements
on foreign firms, investment incentives, and many other forms of industrial policy.
European governments have resisted genuine opening of their national defense markets for a host of reasons, including an obsession with meeting national defense requirements, concerns over sovereignty, and a desire to protect jobs and local high-technology capabilities.
When the economy is performing well and financial failures have been few and far between, regulators are lured into granting the regulated their requests to lower capital requirements, enter new business lines, and take on more risk.
After the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation was enacted in the US, and after financial firms’ capital
requirements
were raised and some of their riskiest activities limited, industry leaders announced that the battle had largely been won.
France imposed on its banks strong transparency and reporting
requirements
for banking activities in tax havens, in addition to the international standard for information exchange.
The challenge for China is to manage prudently the growth in housing supply needed to satisfy the demand
requirements
of urbanization, without fostering excessive speculation and dangerous asset bubbles.
For example, governments could provide information about investment opportunities, access to cheap capital, fiscal incentives, financial support for specific projects, credit guarantees, reduced disclosure requirements, official development assistance tied to FDI projects, or political support.
Indeed, because standard measures of the probability of default fall when the economy is doing well and rise when it is not, capital
requirements
based on these measures tend to be pro-cyclical.
The G-20 has now called for revising the Basel II standards so that capital
requirements
become countercyclical, and Spain’s experience with such
requirements
suggests that doing so is a step in the right direction.
As a result, not only are countercyclical measures needed, but banks’ capital
requirements
should vary inversely with the boom-and-bust fluctuations in the asset markets to which they are heavily exposed.
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