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Exchange-rate movements would be minimal and only as intended, and volatility would be contained, because tit-for-tat injections would no longer occur and speculation would wane.
The Eurozone Island of StabilityBRUSSELS – Market volatility has surged lately, apparently vindicating those who have warned of lofty equity valuations.
But, even as the US stock market suffered one of its worst weeks since the financial crisis, the eurozone’s public-debt market has remained relatively stable, with risk spreads – which have usually increased amid market volatility – scarcely changing, even for the peripheral eurozone countries.
In fact, uncertainty about monetary policy in the United States has been the leading driver of financial-market volatility this year.
Recent global financial turmoil has only added to Africa’s allure, because its frontier markets are less vulnerable to international volatility than are most of the world’s more familiar emerging economies.
Thus, when volatility spikes and liquidity dries up, those same banks scramble for dollars.
This might include such measures as the annualized volatility of the inflation-adjusted ten-year returns, and the range of real payoffs that an investment might earn in ten years, including 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles.
Essentially, the world witnessed a large positive productivity shock emanating from the emerging markets, which accelerated world growth while reinforcing disinflationary pressures that had already been set in motion by the so-called Great Moderation in business-cycle volatility.
Global volatility will undoubtedly affect Argentina’s G20 presidency.
And price volatility, whether triggered by drought or short-sighted national policies, could deter investments in agriculture and decrease the poor’s purchasing power.
Animated discussions as to whether either or both economies face an L-shaped or a V-shaped recession have given way to the reality of considerable volatility, for both income and financial indicators, around a mild upward trend.
The system needs circuit-breakers in the form of loans and capital flows that dampen the volatility and maintain access to financing across the system.
The authorities have tolerated somewhat greater volatility in domestic inflation rates as a consequence.
He points to the high volatility of the dollar/euro rate over the last decade, and its adverse consequences for economic activity in Europe.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has regularly complained about the damaging consequences of excess currency volatility, and has called for exchange rates and international monetary conditions to be at the top of the G-20 agenda when France assumes the group’s presidency this November.
The underlying problem remains that, while both central banks and finance ministries are unhappy about the excessive volatility of real and nominal exchange rates, they do not understand very well what causes it.
Moreover, the intrinsic volatility of short-term capital inflows is another reason for emerging markets to continue accumulating foreign-currency reserves, thereby insulating their economies from sudden out-flows.
The Global Economy’s New AbnormalNEW YORK – Since the beginning of the year, the world economy has faced a new bout of severe financial market volatility, marked by sharply falling prices for equities and other risky assets.
The era of floating exchange rates that followed the end of the gold standard required the development of products that could protect international trade from price volatility.
Instead, it relies on value-at-risk (VaR) measures that link risk to standard notions of short-term market volatility.
With the correct approach, today’s oil-price volatility could turn out to be a critical turning point on the path toward a more sustainable future, characterized by shared prosperity and genuine progress on poverty reduction.
Economists have identified six pitfalls that can afflict natural-resource exporters: commodity-price volatility, crowding out of manufacturing, “Dutch disease” (a booming export industry causes rapid currency appreciation, which undermines other exporters’ competitiveness), inhibited institutional development, civil war, and excessively rapid resource depletion (with insufficient saving).
Volatility itself is costly, leaving economies unable to respond effectively to price signals.
But there is no denying that these countries have been victims of advanced economies’ monetary policies, which have increased capital-flow volatility over the last three decades.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s April 2011 World Economic Outlook, though the volatility of capital flows has increased worldwide, it is higher in emerging market economies than in advanced economies.
Indeed, according to Kocherlakota, nobody really believes them.: “Macroeconomists use them only as convenient short-cuts to generate the requisite levels of volatility” in their mathematical models.
Sadly, nowadays, things as disparate as highly paid executives, the Enron and Parmalat scandals, contested mergers and acquisitions, stock market volatility, "junk bonds," and asset-price bubbles are all lumped together under the snide heading "cowboy capitalism."
Such a step would trigger immense volatility throughout the international monetary system, throwing many economies – such as those that link their currencies to the US dollar or hold a large volume of dollar reserves – into crisis.
EMU membership will diminish this volatility and eliminate exposure to it.
Another deep cause of current volatility is that the commodity super-cycle is over.
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