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While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.
Arguably, they must first sort out the sovereign side of the crisis; but it is not clear that most officials even have a comprehensive plan.
And they get away with it because the eurozone’s decision-makers are not obliged to answer to any sovereign body.
Together, these policies would reduce sovereign debt, lower interest rates, ameliorate tax pressures, enable countries to increase competitiveness with fewer sacrifices to living standards, and provide Europe with a road map to prosperity.
And the preferential treatment received by the ECB on its Greek bonds will discourage other investors from holding sovereign debt.
Attempts to shore up the banks through “stress tests” that lack credible recapitalization facilities and resolution mechanisms have undermined confidence in sovereign debt.
Leveraging the EFSF’s resources should be considered, but any such move will be constrained by the need to preserve the vehicle’s AAA rating with sufficient sovereign guarantees.
Bringing down sovereign borrowing costs would partly, if not entirely, restore governments’ ability to fund bank recapitalization where needed.
In theory, it is immaterial whether the ECB eventually buys all euro sovereign debt through its Securities Markets Program or guarantees all debt pre-emptively.
Sovereign defaults, which may yet be the end-result of one country’s failure to reform, could be better facilitated, in terms of loss sharing and mitigating contagion.
On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
Meanwhile, the Chinese solution gave rise to nationalist fears that sovereign wealth funds might be abused to seize strategically vital businesses or whole sectors of an economy.
Those Fickle Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – Two years ago, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) were the bogeymen of world finance.
In principle, QE has nothing to do with sovereign solvency.
If it stopped buying government debt, it could trigger a sovereign crisis and reduce the value of its own portfolio (especially if it started selling the bonds on its balance sheet).
This holding pattern is particularly harmful because profound transformation will surely depend on financing from a sound sovereign bond market, which cannot function properly until uncertainty related to the government’s contingent liabilities – all those implicit guarantees – has been resolved.
There is general agreement on the aims to be achieved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the end of violence and a peaceful solution based on the concept of two sovereign states.
The MFF could require that unused funds (so-called “de-commitments”) be pooled to create a guarantee fund in case of sovereign default.
The movement toward sovereign control of the Internet is growing, and a degree of fragmentation already exists.
And authoritarian countries like Russia and China championed international treaties guaranteeing no interference with states’ strong sovereign control over their portion of the Internet.
The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect existing settlement patterns.
The summer will probably be worse, bringing Italy closer to a sovereign debt crisis.
When evaluating Italy’s sovereign risk, the central bank’s debts (Target2 balances) must be added to those of the general government.
But, in that same speech, Trump betrayed the superiority he ascribes to Israel: “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital.”
Despite its best efforts, Palestine, of course, is not recognized as a sovereign state by the US.
This, together with reform of the rules covering the capitalization of banks – which incorrectly treat all sovereign debt as risk-free and do not cap banks’ holdings of it – would enable markets, not Germany, to rein in truly excessive borrowing.
This is partly because, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which all of these countries have ratified, these outcroppings’ sovereign owners can claim a full 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (enabling sole exploitation of fisheries and oil resources) if they can sustain an economic life of their own.
Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.
By the early 1970s, just about every country fell in line with the People’s Republic’s demand that it alone be recognized as the legitimate sovereign government of China.
We estimate that if European regulators had adopted this approach and forced banks to stop paying dividends in 2010 – the start of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe – the retained equity could have paid for more than 50% of the 2016 capital shortfalls.
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