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These models thus encouraged investors to sell into a weak market, amplifying price swings.
In the mid-1980’s, when wild exchange-rate swings produced calls for new trade protection measures, the US and Japan found a solution that involved exchange-rate stabilization.
Global temperatures rose and fell by no more than one degree Celsius (compared with swings of more than eight degrees Celsius during the last ice age), and resilient ecosystems met humanity’s needs.
That is a crucial development, because even small shifts in supply or demand can cause large swings in the price of oil.
Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
Look beneath the surface and you find that these big swings were the result of two related factors.
Countries should limit their exposure to short-term international bank loans so that they are less vulnerable to wild swings of international lending.
One consequence of this cynical treatment of political ideologies is the wild swings in voters' preferences seen in various Central European countries.
The amplitude of stock-market point swings invariably grows with general inflation in all prices.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
Self-fulfilling swings in a currency do seem to operate.
Proposing an alternative approach to economic modeling that they call “imperfect knowledge economics,” they urge their colleagues to refrain from offering “sharp predictions” and argue that policymakers should rely on “guidance ranges,” based on historical benchmarks, to counter “excessive” swings in asset prices.
Structural BoomsWhy are there economic booms and busts, those long swings between expansion and slowdown?
In the Interwar period, big swings were marked by hyper-inflations and deep deflations.
After World War II, however, long swings in economic activity continued, while only moderate price and inflation patterns emerged.
If so, these countries will be exposed to wider swings.
The Trump administration’s embrace of financial deregulation is also pro-cyclical and intensifies market swings.
This implies that intervention is not only unnecessary; it is ineffective: Faced with wide swings and trading volumes of $2 trillion per day, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal.
Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever.
But the limit-the swings policy may amplify intervention’s effects by diminishing market participants’ desire to push the exchange rate away from PPP.
But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt competitiveness and require costly resource allocation.
So politicians like Sarkozy may have grounds to argue that central banks should intervene to limit such swings.
Despite wide and persistent swings in actual currency markets, their so-called “rational expectations models” predict that exchange rates should not deviate from parity in any lasting way.
Faced with wide swings, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal to bid a currency further away from historical benchmark levels.
But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can impede real economic activity, which is why intervention is sometimes necessary.
One cannot think of any natural science in which orthodoxy swings between two poles.
First, when reforming their own domestic regulatory frameworks, they should avoid dramatic swings away from allegedly rational markets to allegedly rational governments.
And if animal spirits are indeed fundamental, it becomes important to understand the factors that determine swings in confidence.
And the right way to prevent financial crises in the first place is to intervene in the financial markets to moderate swings in asset values and to head off recessions before they happen.
The clinical implications of the failure to recognize bipolar disorder in depressed patients include the under-prescription of mood-stabilizing medications, and an increased risk of rapid “cycling” – swings between manic and depressive phases.
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