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Everyone knows that errors and omissions are large, especially when it comes to financial transactions.
Although its pledge last August to purchase unlimited quantities of short-term government debt has calmed markets, activation of the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” program is conditional on continued fiscal retrenchment.
With major financial institutions’ exposure to the previously over-priced mortgage market unclear, financial transactions froze up.
Because the buy-down is triggered by achievement of a pre-defined target, such transactions promote results-based financing, bringing about quantifiable reforms that otherwise might not have been realized.
This phenomenon applies even to trade transactions that do not include the US.
Getting Prices RightHONG KONG – Building and maintaining the infrastructure of property rights – the rules, laws, registers, and administrative and judicial structures that define, protect, and enforce such rights and regulate economic transactions – has traditionally been the responsibility of national governments.
It has been the dominant unit used in cross-border transactions and the principal asset held as reserves by central banks and governments.
There was no realistic alternative, I concluded, to a future in which the leading national currencies, the dollar and the euro, still dominated international transactions.
Similarly, a specialized network of actors would be needed to ensure that intermediation of infrastructure transactions is efficient and cost-effective, instead of fragmented and slow, as it is now.
The border tax adjustment would give the US the international advantage of a value-added tax without levying that tax on domestic transactions.
And, unfortunately, there are severe obstacles to exposing them – beginning with the opaqueness of China’s financial transactions with other emerging economies over the past decade.
Such a tax could be modeled on the so-called Robin Hood Tax under consideration in the United Kingdom, which would place a tiny tariff on financial transactions to help pay for poverty-alleviation programs and climate-change initiatives.
Cryptocurrency billionaires owe their fortunes to the security of their transactions; health care in the developing world, which is plagued by high levels of institutionalized corruption, could benefit from similar controls.
In East Africa, local innovators have turned to cryptocurrency systems such as BitPesa to support cross-border transactions.
As a result, the Fed is effectively trapped between a US economy that increasingly justifies normalization of monetary policy and the interest of fragile global markets – in which about 60% of the world’s transactions are dollar-denominated – in further dovishness.
Those credits can be converted into dollars and other currencies at the Fund, and can be used in official transactions among IMF member countries.
But they cannot be used in the other transactions in which central banks and governments engage.
They cannot be used to intervene in foreign-exchange markets, or in other transactions with market participants.
There is also the convenience factor: dollars are widely used in a variety of other transactions.
Overcoming that advantage now would require someone to act as market-maker for private as well as official transactions and subsidize the market in its start-up phase.
Although hedge funds sometimes account for 50% of market transactions, they are not registered or subject to rules on transparency.
South Korea’s leaders must implement stronger regulations to prevent illegal transactions and unfair practices, including collusion between chaebols and government officials.
More than 60% of the transactions involved SMEs.
The move, which has come to be known as the “Draghi put,” almost immediately reduced borrowing costs for Spain and Italy, and is widely touted as having pulled the eurozone back from the brink of disaster – without ever using the so-called “outright monetary transactions.”
Instead of having humans scrutinize every item in every batch of 1,000,000 transactions for indications of fraud, PayPal’s computers can approve the obviously legitimate transactions, and pass on the 1,000 or so that could be fraudulent for thoughtful consideration by a human.
Even more extraordinarily, when these new currencies emerged as the new claimants to reserve status, they had only recently become convertible for current-account transactions, and capital flows were still restricted.
Iran’s Crippled CurrencyMONTREAL – Escalating economic woes, aggravated by increasingly stringent international sanctions that prohibit transactions with Iran’s central bank and oil companies, are fueling unrest in Iran, as the value of the country’s currency, the rial, plummets.
It would have been better if, in 2010, the IMF had demanded of the ECB a pledge “to do whatever it takes” and a program of “outright monetary transactions,” like those ECB President Mario Draghi eventually offered two years later.
If a general social agreement along these lines, with the state viewed not as a facilitator of private transactions but as the benevolent protector of the people, emerges in Eastern Europe, we are likely to end up half in the old world and half in the new.
Similarly, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), the subsidiary of the People’s Bank of China that controls the foreign-exchange transactions of commercial banks and households, derives its power from controlling capital inflows and outflows.
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