Restrictions
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Moreover, the higher the gap between official interest rates and the higher rates on mortgage lending as a result of macro-prudential restrictions, the more room there is for regulatory arbitrage.
After all, though home-price inflation has slowed modestly in some countries, home prices in general are still rising in economies where macro-prudential
restrictions
on mortgage lending are being used.
So long as official policy rates – and thus long-term mortgage rates – remain low, such
restrictions
are not as binding as they otherwise would be.
America’s trading partners will have little choice but to respond to US import
restrictions
by imposing their own tariffs on US exports.
Trump has already shown his willingness to target firms’ foreign operations with the threat of import levies, public accusations of price gouging, and immigration
restrictions
(which make it harder to attract talent).
In multilateral and bilateral agreements, developing countries accept
restrictions
on their “policy space” in exchange for better market access to advanced economies.
Second, the US, with its incredibly lax
restrictions
on gun purchases, serves as a veritable arms depot for rich Mexican drug lords.
Jump-starting productivity growth will require reworking the kingdom’s
restrictions
on business and labor practices.
In fact, the financial industry’s biggest problems lie elsewhere: hedge funds, investment banks, and other non-bank financial institutions that face less regulatory oversight and
restrictions
(such as on capital standards and leverage) than commercial banks.
For Turkey, the biggest prize was the EU’s commitment to lifting visa
restrictions
on Turkish citizens traveling to the Schengen Area, a move scheduled for June.
And this situation is far from exclusive to Pakistan: most of the countries with no
restrictions
on women serving in frontline combat roles are in Europe or the Anglosphere (the exceptions are Eritrea, Israel, and North Korea).
So it is not a policy trilemma but a dilemma: capital-account
restrictions
–not just flexible exchange rates – may be necessary for central banks to exercise effective control over domestic credit conditions.
Under existing copyright restrictions, titles accessible in the richest countries remain inaccessible to readers in the poorest.
Restrictions
on deployment of offensive weapons, for example, remain in place.
To this end, they have eased
restrictions
on political speech and stopped pursuing harsh retaliation against opponents.
Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign trade and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative
restrictions
on imports).
It would be hard to identify any poor country whose development prospects are seriously blocked by
restrictions
on market access abroad.
Here, the European Union should clearly signal its readiness to take the lead in easing and lifting
restrictions
on Iran, though this obviously must be done in close coordination with Europe’s partners.
Americans find it difficult to understand why Europeans insist on such restrictions, and accuse the EU of practicing bio-trade protectionism.
Former President George W. Bush’s
restrictions
on funding for health programs that used condoms or other forms of contraception meant that Islamic organizations receiving any funding from the US Agency for International Development were unable to publish material promoting safe-sex and family planning.
More generally, countries felt pressure from the IMF and the US Treasury to remove capital-flow restrictions, which magnified the risks and made maintaining pegged exchange rates still more problematic.
Because China’s government relaxed
restrictions
on offshore borrowing faster than was prudent, Chinese enterprises with links to the government have high levels of foreign debt.
But here,
restrictions
are not based entirely on age, but on family bloodlines.
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).
The main measures to control credit growth were a gradual increase in reserve requirements, beginning in 2010; some
restrictions
on consumer loans; and the introduction of credit-growth caps in the second half of 2011.
By contrast, Brazil and India did not shy away from reimposing capital-account
restrictions.
Now, these tensions may be reaching a breaking point, after the United States, the European Union, and Japan recently filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China’s export
restrictions
on a number of critical minerals, including rare earths.
Were China to open the gates and cast aside its export restrictions, effectively flooding the market with rare earths, depressed prices would ruin many mines.
Among the milestones were the decisions in 1986-1988 to remove all
restrictions
on cross-border capital flows, and the launch in 1999 of a legislative action plan on financial services.
Administrative
restrictions
on lawyers were tightened to discourage class action or multiple plaintiff suits – typically cases against arbitrary or corrupt government actions – and to facilitate local authorities’ intervention and control over cases.
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