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From the perspective of international investors, banks that are “too big to fail” are the perfect places to park their reserves – as long as the sovereign in question remains solvent.
After all, central banks seeking to accumulate foreign-currency reserves will have alternatives to acquiring dollars, so foreigners won’t give America so much rope with which to hang itself.
Reforms of the labor market, the pension system, and those underway or planned in many sectors and professions – all of which generate huge reserves for enhanced growth and, therefore, hope – reflect a profound change in the public’s perception of the country’s long-term needs.
International reserves are dwindling quickly.
“The argument that China should rescue Europe does not stand, as reserves are not managed that way,” she announced.
This could even be taken one step further, with SDRs being allocated according to a new formula that accounts not just for IMF quotas, but also for demand (or need) for foreign-exchange reserves.
The current formula would have the countries most in need of foreign reserves – that is, middle- and low-income countries (excluding China) – receiving just over one-third of the total allocation.
Even without this change, the SDR can and should gain a more prominent position in global reserves.
In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their holdings of long-term securities and shrink them slowly.
No one wants to navigate the precarious government-debt dynamic that Japan faces, with debt levels far above 100% of GDP (even if one factors in the Japanese government’s vast holdings of foreign-exchange reserves.)
ONGC-Mittal Energy is keen to secure blocks with proven reserves, but also is less concerned about the fine detail of the infrastructure packages than their Asian competitors.
And they certainly don’t want to be pressed to apologize for holding hostage over $800 billion in foreign currency reserves, acquired to resist yen appreciation.
These SDRs will sit largely untouched in the reserve accounts of these countries, which don't really need any additional reserves.
I further propose that member countries agree to use the IMF's gold reserves to guarantee the interest payments and repayment of the principal.
Establishing a green fund would be an implicit pledge to do so by putting the gold reserves of the IMF at risk.
The key point is that it is possible to increase substantially the amount available to fight global warming in the developing world by using the existing allocations of SDRs, with interest payments on them guaranteed by the IMF’s gold reserves.
Our research shows that the number of large mammals at Chernobyl is similar to that in uncontaminated nature reserves in Belarus – except for wolves, which are far more numerous in the area around the reactor.
Indeed, in areas outside the zone or nature reserves, populations of elk and wild boar underwent steep declines, as major socioeconomic changes after the fall of the Soviet Union worsened rural poverty and crippled wildlife management.
A mechanism that allows rich countries that don’t need additional reserves to transfer their allocations to those that do is readily available, using the IMF’s gold reserves.
The average interest rate paid for overnight reserves in the US has been well below the 5.25% per year that the Fed still publicly says is its target.
But the market for overnight reserves now appears to be divided into three segments.
Not even China’s massive foreign-currency reserves – the world’s largest, at nearly $4 trillion – will be adequate to boost its financial leverage, unless the authorities create a deep and open bond market with liberalized interest rates and an easily convertible currency.
These reserves do not give China much direct bargaining power over the US, either, given that interdependent relationships depend on asymmetries.
Whereas extraction of America’s extensive reserves of natural gas was previously thought to be unfeasible, technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have ushered in a shale-gas revolution.
While emerging-market countries’ public-sector balance sheets are stronger than ever – with low deficits and debt accompanied by large foreign-currency reserves – household and corporate leverage have risen.
But as a result of these policies, every country in the group is starting 2012 with larger international reserves and foreign debts with longer maturities than they would have had otherwise.
It possesses over half of the world’s known reserves of cobalt (a key component in computer chips and lithium-ion batteries) and around 80% of the world’s supply of coltan (a heat-resistant metal used in mobile phones and other devices).
As my coauthors and I show in a new book, the share of dollars in the foreign-currency reserves held by central banks and governments worldwide hardly budged in the face of these events.
Being in a military alliance with a reserve-currency-issuing country boosts the share of the partner’s foreign-exchange reserves held in that currency by roughly 30 percentage points.
The evidence thus suggests that the share of reserves held in dollars would fall appreciably in the absence of this effect.
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