"How can I know what I think until I read what I write?" – Henry James


There are a few lone voices willing to utter heresy. I am an avid follower of Ilusion Monetaria, a blog by ex-Bank of Spain economist (and monetarist) Miguel Navascues here.
Dr Navascues calls a spade a spade. He exhorts Spain to break free of EMU oppression immediately. (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

lunes, 28 de noviembre de 2011

eurobonos versus bonos (rev)

¿Recuerdan el gráfico de  Rebacca Wilder, (malicious-ecb-rate-hikes), que demostraba que el BCE la había cagado cuando subió los tipos de interés? Las lineas verticales muestran las fechas de las dos subidas de tipos del BCE, que desataron la furia de los mercados que hasta ahora no ha hecho más que aumentar. La prueba es que la bajada que impuso Mario Draghi hace dos semanas No ha invertido la tendencia al alza...

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Como prueba del error, y del aumento de lo que podríamos llamar la "irreversibilidad" de estos procesos,  Krugman señala la diferente evolución del rendimiento del bono sueco y finlandés. Dos economías robustas, una en el euro, otro que dijo NO en referendum, y que, en abril de 211, se separaron progresivamente hasta el diferencial actual: el bono sueco está al 1,5%, el bono finlandés está al 3%. Es una valuación del euro descarada, patente, indiscutible. (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-euro-curse/)

The Euro Curse

Joe Weisenthal has a smart post comparing Sweden and Finland. Both look solid, and fiscally are in good shape. But where Swedish bond yields have been plummeting, Finnish yields have risen. As he says, this looks like the penalty Finland is paying for being part of the euro and lacking a lender of last resort.
I thought I’d look into this a bit more. Here are Swedish and Finnish 10-year bond yields (ECB monthly data; “November 11″ is actually last Friday):
You can see the big divergence as the euro crisis has exploded. But I think it’s interesting that Finland and Sweden started to diverge back in April. What happened then?
Ah, yes — the ECB started raising rates. And as Rebecca Wilder points out, that’s precisely when euro bond spreads began their upward march, culminating in the current crisis.
By itself, that rate hike — although it was obviously, obviously a big mistake — should not have mattered that much. But maybe it acted as a signal of the ECB’s bloody-mindedness, and that’s what set off the panic.
If that’s what happened, then the ECB’s hard-money madness may have destroyed the euro.
Y, digo yo, ¿Cómo piensan que va a funcionar el eurobono, si ya parte de una prima de riesgo superior a la que tenía hace meses, cuando se empezó a pensar en ello? qué incompetentes son estos tipos.

ADDENDUM: David Beckworth (fateful-decision-to-tighten-ecb) corrobora lo que dice Krugman, con dos gráficos que muestran cómo las expectativas de crecimiento (vía expectativas de inflación) y la cotización del euro se deterioraron desde la primera subida del tipos del BCE. Una prueba clara de la improtancia de las expectativas.
I agree.  This market saw this interest rate hike as indicating the ECB would allow further weakening of Eurozone aggregate demand.  Consequently, the market lowered its forecast of nominal spending and, as a result, expected inflation started declining, the Euro began weakening, and sovereign spreads started increasing.  Here is the breakeven inflation for the Eurozone:    


Here is the nominal effective exchange rate for the Euro:

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