However, the bottom line is that despite QE3, there have at best been mixed signs of a viable recovery. Now that QE3 is over, pundits are trying their best to figure out the consequences of this decision.
Although I do not consider myself an expert, I have never shied away from sharing my opinions with those willing to listen, so here goes. The mixed signs include an improved unemployment rate currently at 5. Instead, QE3 has led to enormous amounts of cash on corporate balance sheets — so much cash, in fact, that many corporations have initiated stock buy-back plans, increased dividends, acquisitions and spin-offs as ways to put money into the hands of investors.
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This compensation may impact how and where listings appear. Investopedia does not include all offers available in the marketplace. Related Terms Quantitative Easing QE Quantitative easing QE refers to emergency monetary policy tools used by central banks to spur iconic activity by buying a wider range of assets in the market.
Tapering is when a central bank reverses its quantitative easing QE policies. Easy Money Definition Easy money is when the Fed allows cash to build up within the banking system in order to lower interest rates and boost lending activity.
What Is Monetary Policy? As economies are more integrated, the implementation of QE in developed countries can cause excess flow of liquidity in emerging countries and inadvertently disrupt their currencies, exports, inflation levels.
One major feature of the world economy is the globalization of the financial markets. Increasingly, emerging economies including those in Africa are integrated with most developed ones mainly through trade ties and capital flows. When an important central bank adopts a QE program, it expands its monetary base and provides liquidity to the markets thus creating excess liquidity which in part will flow to the developing world for diverse reasons.
This excess liquidity is chiefly attracted by the higher risk-adjusted investment returns offered by the emerging markets compared with the developed world. Over the long term and on risk-adjusted basis, investments in financial emerging markets yield more than in the developed world. Furthermore, emerging markets offer global investors the possibility of portfolio diversification. Lower level of leverage and better ability to take on debts by emerging countries compared with major economies indicate a strong capacity of the developing economies to absorb greater foreign flows to feed their growth without jeopardizing their financial viability.
In the same vein, liquidity expansion seems to positively affect credit conditions in emerging markets. In fact, while credit availability in advanced economies has not translated into higher borrowing by the banking sector, the credit and lending to private borrowers in emerging countries significantly increased.
As noted above, though quantitative easing can boost economic growth in mature economies, it may have unintended effects on emerging economies:. Currency wars: After the launch of QE3 by the Fed, finance ministers of several emerging countries including Brazil, China, and Korea accused the United States of intensifying currency and trade wars. Currency wars can be very harmful to the global economy as they could destroy wealth and increase price instability.
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