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A fully capable regional financial safety net could contain the contagion of financial shocks emanating from individual economies and prevent disruptions to the region’s key growth drivers – intra-regional trade and investment.
As a result, these tools’ ability to cushion an economy against further shocks is severely constrained.
The build-up of real and financial problems – the worst US housing recession ever, oil at $90 a barrel or above, a severe credit crunch, falling investment by the corporate sector, and savings-less and debt-burdened consumers buffeted by multiple negative shocks – make a recession unavoidable.
Similarly, manufacturing can expand to restore inventories depleted by over-contraction of output, while random shocks such as major innovations or harvest variations may have an asymmetric effect in a recession, with upward shocks in some sectors having a greater impact than the downward shocks in others.
But any such speculative boom is inherently unstable, as the stories evolve in time and with new shocks, whose effect on markets is most uncertain.
Instead of offering concessions, which could create long-term instability in the eurozone, Europe’s leaders must remain committed to creating strong incentives for all member states to maintain prudent fiscal policies capable of reducing public-debt ratios and restoring fiscal buffers against asymmetric shocks to the currency union.
Argentina's government recognized the problem, but was hit by numerous shocks beyond its control before it could act.
2.Globalization exposes a country to enormous shocks.
Countries must cope with those shocks - adjustments in exchange rates are part of the coping mechanism.
The current global slowdown is not on a par with what occurred in the late 1990’s or the more wrenching shocks of 3-4 years ago – at least not yet.
The International Monetary Fund’s Mission Report of March 2009, pointing to the country’s 30 years of chronic political tumult, concluded that “Lebanon will remain vulnerable to shocks for many years” to come.
The problem is not just that they need to wean themselves from their reliance on fickle capital inflows and commodity booms, which have often left them vulnerable to shocks and prone to crises.
It is a sobering reminder of our vulnerability to both natural and human-induced shocks to the earth’s systems.
But the future of Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) depends on three crucial components: greater economic convergence, greater openness within the single market, and greater resilience to asymmetric shocks.
Finally, a better EMU should be more resilient to asymmetric shocks.
Despite massive government efforts in Europe and the developed world to restrain immigration after the oil price shocks of the 1970s, labor inflows into the rich countries started to increase in the 1980s to an annual average of about 1.4 million in Europe and 2.3 million in the US.
Today’s system is plagued by cycles of confidence in the dollar and by periodic shocks due to American policies that are adopted independently of their global impact and thus imposed on the rest of the world.
Until recently, markets seemed to discount these shocks; apart from a few days when panic about Japan or the Middle East caused a correction, they continued their upward march.
Firms and consumers reacted to this year’s shocks by “temporarily” slowing consumption, capital spending, and job creation.
As long as the shocks don’t worsen (and as some become less acute), confidence and growth will recover in the second half of the year, and stock markets will rally again.
For example, the drugs used in forced lethal injections and devices for administering electrical shocks have become much harder to obtain and more expensive.
Underwriting the PoorBRUSSELS/NEW YORK – Over the last five years, a sharp rise in food prices has highlighted the global food system’s vulnerability to supply shocks – and reminded the world how tenuous is the food security of millions of people.
If a crisis hits, they must resort to drastic measures, such as removing their children from school to save money, or selling the assets that they use to generate income, such as land or livestock, thus jeopardizing their ability to cope with future shocks.
The countries in which people are least able to sustain their livelihoods in the face of unexpected shocks, and in which food and farming systems are the least resilient, offer the least protection.
The costs of such a package can be separated into two components: the response to “structural,” or endemic, poverty, and protection against unexpected shocks.
Focusing on the latter, we estimate the cost of the reinsurance premium needed to provide protection against shocks at 0.5% of the GDP of the poor countries concerned, or a vanishingly small fraction of global GDP, which can be shared between rich and poor countries.
This creates a flexible adjustment mechanism, should unanticipated shocks occur.
But that time is ending, with energy prices rising and the Belarusian economy facing shocks that could provoke unrest and pose a threat to Lukashenko.
But any financial system must be able to withstand shocks, including big ones.
Yes, I used to say, adverse shocks to spending could indeed create mass unemployment and idle capacity, but their effects would be limited to one, two, or at most three years.
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