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Since the reform period began in the early 1980’s, a large working-age cohort has ensured a sufficient supply of labor and a high saving rate.
Thus, as China’s labor-supply constraints tighten, wages should be determined not only by the relationship between labor supply and demand, but also by labor-market institutions.
Governments should also reinforce the supply of skills by strengthening incentives for educational institutions to harness the power of digital technology and new business models.
Swedish multinationals remained competitive, but expansion during the last decades took place abroad, where the supply of skilled labor was larger and the labor costs lower.
Fears of excess investment and “ghost cities” fixate on the supply side, without giving due weight to burgeoning demand.
Japan’s somewhat fragile recovery could be derailed by an escalation of its territorial conflict with China, which is both a major market for Japanese goods and deeply integrated into Japanese firms’ supply chains.
Failure to contain the impact of regional conflicts and bilateral frictions may lead to more than just supply shocks in areas like energy.
The precise impact of migration on wages is hotly debated among economists, but no economy can face a sudden surge in labor supply without some adverse consequences for at least some groups of “native” workers.
Establishing such a mechanism will not be easy, as it requires a resource that is in short supply in Europe today: trust.
Rather, the risk stems from governments’ refusal, when push comes to shove, to match aggregate demand to aggregate supply in order to prevent mass unemployment.
While Say’s law – the view that supply creates its own demand – is false in theory, it is true enough in practice that entrepreneurs and enterprises can and do depend on it.
For 62 years, from 1945-2007, with some sharp but temporary and regionalized interruptions, entrepreneurs and enterprisers could bet that the demand would be there if they created the supply.
The administration is restricting inward/outward investment and technology transfers, which will disrupt supply chains.
Companies have a clear stake in low-carbon infrastructure, as climate change poses substantial risks for global supply chains.
Low inflation resulted from a combination of cheap supply and low demand.
The quantity theory states that the general price level will rise proportionately to the increase in the money supply.
So if the money supply increased by 5% globally in the last year, world prices will rise by 5% after a short lag.
In the 1990’s, the Japanese central bank injected huge amounts of money into banks in an attempt to boost the money supply.
But in such cases, little or no increase in the money supply occurs.
Investments in tomorrow’s energy supply and production processes will largely come from the private sector; but it is up to government to develop the institutional and regulatory frameworks that ensure that these investments are allocated in ways that are environmentally sustainable.
The housing problem is contributing to the financial crisis, which in turn is reducing the supply of credit needed to sustain economic activity.
As homeowners with large negative equity default, the foreclosed homes contribute to the excess supply that drives prices down further.
But the macroeconomic weakness in the US now goes beyond the decreased supply of credit.
Iran’s energy demand will exceed its supply, possibly reducing or even eliminating its oil export capacity in the near future.
Although the original rationale was to buy the crop in years of excess supply and sell in years of excess demand, thereby stabilizing prices, in practice the price paid to cocoa and coffee farmers, who were politically weak, was always below the world price in the early decades of independence.
Prices are not determined solely by the flow of current supply and demand and their current economic fundamentals (such as disruptions from weather or politics).
While the European Central Bank has also been buying government bonds since last spring, the amount is relatively small (€70 billion, compared to the Fed’s $600 billion program), and is meant only to support troubled eurozone members, with particular care taken to avoid any impact on money supply.
So, because supply has shrunk, it would be dangerous for the central bank or the budget to over-stimulate demand.
In an economy unequipped for growth, household wealth relative to wages would soar, and the labor supply would shrink, causing employment to contract.
Indeed, a boom would be difficult to sustain, given China’s slowdown, higher investment in energy-saving technologies, less emphasis on capital- and resource-oriented growth models around the world, and the delayed increase in supply that high prices induced.
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