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    2010-02-22    恬宀:霜屈    栖坿:将蔀歌深烏

    Tough love is better for Athens in the long term

  Both by chance and design��the emergency policy erected by the European Central Bank to tackle the financial crisis has��so far��played out quite beautifully.By introducing a limited package of measures aimed at flooding the banking system with easily accessible and cheap liquidity��the ECB last year restored some sense of normality to the eurozone¨s financial markets.
  As 2009 wore on��the liquidity crunch faded and risk premiums in the money markets dropped steadily. Banks used the liquidity provided by the ECB to fund profitable ��carry trades on corporate and government bonds��prompting a massive compression of spreads in credit and sovereign debt markets. As the financial sector healed and recovery gained traction��the need for a timely ��monetary policy exit became apparent. Aware of the perils of procrastination��last December the ECB announced the ��withdrawal of some liquidity measures.
  Then��along came the Greek fiscal crisis with the potential of unwinding the progress already achieved. Rather than bow to pressure and delay the exit��the ECB rejected the notion that monetary policy should accommodate member states¨ fiscal troubles. Implicitly�� the ECB regarded the Greek affair not as another exogenous shock meriting further policy stimulus��but as a demonstration of the dangers of excessive liquidity. This explains why the ECB¨s commitment to an exit did not wane as investors¨unease spread from Greece to elsewhere in Europe.
  Could this posture be construed as stubbornness born out of a rigid fidelity to an ∠inflation-fighting mandate��Not really. A timely exit will prompt a more resolute fiscal consolidation where it is most needed. Here is how.
  Exiting would make ECB funding harder to get and dearer. Banks would scale down carry trades on sovereign bonds��thereby removing the subsidy to public debt imparted by abundant liquidity. This would hurt primarily the government paper of the most indebted countries��whose higher yields made them the main beneficiaries of carry trades. The resulting higher funding cost would encourage fiscal rectitude for the long haul.
  As recent developments attest��no eurozone member will be allowed to default��given the catastrophic consequences that could ensue. The risks include contagion to other vulnerable countries and a eurozone implosion owing to heavy exposure of European banks to peripheral debt��according to the Bank for International Settlements��about 90 per cent of the foreign debt�Ccorporate and sovereign�Cof Greece��Portugal and Spain is held by other European countries`banks��mainly German and French.However inevitable��the eurozone¨s implicit bail-out guarantee generates moral hazard in the fiscal sphere;something the ECB should fight strenuously�Cif need be�Cby rushing its exit strategy.
  Aside from fostering fiscal soundness��an exit will help money markets normalise.One pernicious side effect of the ECB¨s policy was to get banks addicted to easy central bank money. Consequently��demand for interbank liquidity was artificially subdued and market interest rates sank to levels that discouraged the supply of funds��especially in longer maturities. But as the exit unfolds��demand for market funds automatically increases��rates rise and the yield curve steepens. That stimulates money markets�Cindispensable for kick-starting bank lending to businesses and households and for sustaining economic recovery.
  The ⊥liquidity squeeze has withered��and so should the policy package assembled to address it. Yet an exit might not be achievable in full; due to a devilish detail. Amid the emergency measures��the ECB relaxed the collateral rules for the liquidity-providing operations��but committed to reinstate the original criteria in 2011. By then��as things stand��the eligibility of the Greek bonds will be dependent on Moody¨s maintaining its appraisal of Greece��since the other credit agencies¨ratings are too low to comply with the original collateral rules.
  If Moody¨s downgrades Greece��its bonds cease to be eligible for ECB refinancing. That could spark a sell-off of Greek debt��with systemic implications akin to a default. If push came to shove��the ECB would probably maintain the exceptional collateral regime. The credibility of the ECB¨s exit strategy is��thus��hostage to Moody¨s mood. Hopefully��by 2011��acute anxiety about Greek fiscal sustainability will have abated;perhaps��partly due to the ECB¨s tough love.

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  曜竃貨待�催蛍渮誂于散�辧

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  �戞�carry trades��夏将宝囂��辛酒汽仇尖盾葎參和誘彿圭塀�砂菷訐�楕熟詰議蝶嶽歯衛��誘彿噐旋楕賜圓豚辺吩楕熟互議署蛮彿恢��辛増由咎葎^耗旋住叟 ̄賜^旋餓住叟 ̄。
  �據�monetary policy��歯衛屓貨��the decisions a monetary authority makes to manages the money supply。
  �曄�withdrawal��吭葎辺指��碍曜賜宀曜指��壓猟嶄峺天巖刹佩傚下匯乂指辺送強來議企仏。
  ∠、inflation-fighting��辛咎葎雙崙宥歯湯嬪��inflation葎宥歯湯嬪��峺麗勺噸演貧幅��泌惚垢彿短嗤�獏υ�海��夸吭龍彭肖酎杭択薦和週。
  ⊥、liquidity squeeze��送強來玉髪賜遊雁諸嫖。

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