{"id":745,"date":"2013-06-04T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/?p=745"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:59:16","slug":"the-economic-consequences-of-abenomics-currency-wars-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/2013\/06\/04\/the-economic-consequences-of-abenomics-currency-wars-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economic Consequences of Abenomics: Currency Wars Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/2013\/05\/28\/japan%C2%B4s-abenomics-and-the-money-multiplier\/\">Prof. N\u00faria Mas described Abenomics<\/a>: the economic policies advocated by <strong>Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe<\/strong>. Abe\u2019s plan consists of three items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monetary easing<\/li>\n<li>Fiscal policy<\/li>\n<li>Structural reforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-756\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/files\/2013\/06\/Abenomics-e1370343274498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-756\" alt=\"Benomics and currency war\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/files\/2013\/06\/Abenomics-300x151.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author: Natsume S\u014dseki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first of these policies, monetary easing, has provided for headlines during the past two months. On April 4 the Bank of Japan announced a substantial increase in the monetary base over the next two years. Because of the relative size and importance of Japan, the announcement sent shockwaves through global financial markets. Stock markets rallied and sovereign bond yields dropped everywhere \u2013European periphery countries included.<\/p>\n<p><b>Not everybody is happy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hyun Oh-seok, the South Korean finance minister, recently told the <em>Financial Times<\/em> that Japan\u2019s monetary policies \u201care having quite a negative impact.\u201d<\/b> The economic consequences of <strong>Abenomics<\/strong> include a weaker yen. South Korea has seen its exchange rate appreciate against the yen. <b>So has Taiwan, which competes for the same export markets. The minister is worried about exports<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Countries that worry about the weakness of the <strong>yen<\/strong> may respond by loosening their own monetary policy in an attempt to restore previous exchange rate parities. If this happens, the economic boost of Japan\u2019s depreciated currency may be less than expected. <b>There would also be a return of talk on \u201ccurrency wars\u201d at international meetings such as the G8 or G20<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>It has been argued that the ECB should seek to depreciate the euro<\/b> (possibly by following its own version of Abenomics) to get out of the economic slump. This can backfire. With Europe added into the mix, the round of competitive depreciations may be taken to a new level. And, of course, <b>if everybody engages in competitive depreciations they do ultimately not benefit anybody.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Prof. N\u00faria Mas described Abenomics: the economic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[71752,625,932,953,70220,71758,71753],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-economy","tag-abenomics","tag-euro","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-reforms","tag-shinzo-abe","tag-taiwan","megacategoria-mc-economics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}