Lições da Crise

Com a chegada do primeiro ano de aniversário do colapso do Lehman Brothers os economistas estão ouvindo sobre as lições aprendidas. Entre eles está Richard Berner do Margan Stanley.

Ele destacou cinco pontos em uma apresentação feita no último mês em evento do Banco Central da Argentina. Aqui estão elas:

1. “A strong and well-regulated financial system should be the first line of defense against financial shocks …. [T]he more free-market oriented we want our economies to be, the more we need official supervision and oversight of our financial institutions and markets. That’s because truly free-market economies involve a high risk of business failure, and corresponding high risks to the financial institutions and investors that lend to and invest in those businesses. A key lesson from this crisis is that competition among lenders breeds innovation, but also instability.”

2. “Aggressive and persistent policy responses are the second line of defense … [F]rom past crises like Japan’s lost decade, we learned that the persistence of policy support is also critical to facilitate balance-sheet cleanup, offset the drag on the economy, and prevent deflation … For market participants, understanding just how persistent policy support will be is important; they want central bankers to make a clear distinction between the end of easing, which is now underway, and exit strategies or the beginning of tightening, which lie ahead.”

3. “Macroprudential supervision and asset prices should both play bigger roles in monetary policy …. There is broad agreement that a global focus on systemic risk is needed. There is less agreement on exactly how to define and implement it. ”

4. “Flexible exchange rates enhance the ability of monetary policy to respond to shocks.”

5. “Global imbalances contributed to the crisis by allowing internal imbalances to grow. … [R]ecession is helping to rebalance the US and global economies and markets. The question now: Will this rebalancing process be benign and sustainable for economies and markets, or will it be disruptive? I worry about the latter because current US policies are expanding rather than reducing imbalances, and officials elsewhere are limiting exchange-rate adjustment.”

via Five Lessons From the Financial Crisis – Real Time Economics – WSJ.

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