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On the contrary, China has a strong interest in curbing the volatility – and, given China’s centrality to the global economy, so does the rest of the world.
Yet volatility in the assessment of potential growth prevents politicians from “owning” the already abstruse structural deficit and causes volatility in the policies based on this assessment, paradoxically resulting in a shortening of decision-makers’ time horizon.
One reason for this is widespread pessimism about Japan’s economy, reinforced by volatility in China, monetary tightening in the United States, and the collapse in world oil prices.
Small, open economies are naturally somewhat specialized, which leaves them vulnerable to shocks and volatility.
After February 27, 2007, it looked as if the markets were settling down, and the VIX measure of stock market volatility had fallen back nearly to earlier levels.
On the one hand, the euro protected the eurozone, particularly Germany’s export economy, from speculative attacks and the chaos of currency volatility.
This gap would lead to volatility of capital inflows and output, causing investors to shun long-term projects in the new, unstable part of the eurozone.
Fourth, we should prepare for a rough ride ahead, because extreme weather, resource scarcity, and price volatility have become the “new normal.”
There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short-term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX.
Most emerging-market borrowers had learned their lesson by the turn of the century, as exchange-rate volatility had made the risks of currency mismatch more tangible.
A plausible pickup in business investment in the US and northern Europe, combined with a sudden slowdown in Asian economies with surplus savings, could in principle produce an outsize rise in global rates, jeopardizing today’s low borrowing costs, frothy stock markets, and subdued volatility.
As for being a store of value, cryptocurrencies’ price volatility makes them, so far, a highly risky investment.
So, what policies must emerging Asian economies pursue to reduce their vulnerability to regional and global volatility?
Because energy and food security are matters of economic as well as social and political stability, policies that reduce commodity-price volatility should be in the interest of producers and consumers.
Moreover, policymakers should work to build a diverse, resilient, and self-sustaining private sector, which can cushion the economy from oil-revenue volatility.
Under this interpretation, the term’s popularity is a source of concern: it may indicate a market psychology that could lead to downward volatility in prices.
Uncertainty over the resolution of the debt is likely to provoke political instability over tax hikes and spending cuts, and therefore volatility in financial markets.
These countries now must determine how to avoid the “resource curse” – an all-too-common affliction whereby rising resource revenues lead to volatility, rent seeking, and corruption, while spurring real exchange-rate appreciation and wage increases, thereby undermining other economic sectors’ competitiveness.
Volatility is down, confidence is up, and risk aversion is much lower – for now.
Lost in all of the hype was the fact that neither markets nor financial analysts were terribly perturbed about excessive exchange-rate volatility or the possibility of an actual currency war.
After the autumn of 2008, exchange-rate volatility slowly receded toward pre-crisis levels.
The resulting challenges – a host of new and unexpected competitors, volatility stemming from faraway places, and the disappearance of local jobs – are already overwhelming workers and companies.
The Hedge Fund HegemonThe recent volatility in global capital markets should give pause to those who say German leaders, who have been arguing for greater transparency in global hedge funds, are just sore losers US and UK policymakers, in particular, say the German whining is nonsense, and that hedge funds, along with other new age financial entities such as private equity firms are key innovators in today’s, global economy.
Economic development is a convoluted process, full of challenges and risks, successes and failures, external shocks and internal volatility.
But the risks that investor faced would also have doubled, for the volatility of returns on short-term government securities was 3% during the same 50 years, but a whopping 17% for the S&P index, and 30% for small cap stocks.
In other words, long-term investments in stocks do yield more than investments in government securities, but the heightened volatility means that decades must pass before we can safely conclude that an average stock investment has indeed brought higher returns.
But the greater volatility of the last few weeks saw the index of new European stocks lose at least 30% of its value.
Here is a powerful signal that the old relationship between returns and volatility is reasserting itself.
CAMBRIDGE – Under French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s leadership, the G-20 has made addressing food-price volatility a top priority this year, with member states’ agriculture ministers meeting recently in Paris to come up with solutions.
But, when it comes to specific policies, caution will be very much in order, for there is a long history of measures aimed at reducing commodity-price volatility that have ended up doing more harm than good.
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