9 March 2015
9 March 2015
Special Report: Euroglut here to stay: trillions of outflows to go
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these outflows due to its sheer magnitude. Even the speculative FX market would
be too small to price this immense shift in Europe's economy ex ante even if
participants fully understood the massive implications of Euroglut.
Ultimately, portfolio outflows are likely to exceed the euro area's current account
surplus even under extremely conservative assumptions as to the pace of NIIP
adjustment. The current pace of portfoko outflows is double the current account
surplus, explaining the recent weakness of the Euro. Even if one assumes that the
pace of adjustment slows and that it would take a decade for the new NIIP
equilibrium to be reached, portfolio outflows would still exceed the current
account surplus, maintaining downward pressure on EUR.
Case Studies of Other Mature Creditor Transitions
The recent Japanization of South Korea
South Korea provides a particularly relevant and timely precedent for assessing the
speed with which Europe will transition towards a 21st-century Japan from a NIIP
perspective. The Korean NIIP turned positive only last autumn, for the first time
since the data began to be collected in 1994. This coincided with a surge in capital
outflows and depreciation resulting from the Bank of Korea's decision to react to
Japanese quantitative easing. This was certainly the final push the NIIP required to
slide into positive territory (Figure 12). The episode illustrates how responsive
capital flows, exchange rates, and ultimately NIIPs are to the Japanization of
monetary policy. South Korean outflows over the past six months certainly mirror
and anticipate Euroglut.
That said, structural breaks in monetary policy rarely turn perennial debtors into
creditor economies overnight. On closer inspection, Korea's transition to a positive
NIIP was a structural adjustment spanning almost twenty years (Figure 13). During
the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the Korean economy experienced a sudden
current account reversal. At the time, Korea's NIIP stood at roughly 10% of GDP,
similar to the euro area today. Since then, quarterly current account surpluses have
averaged at 3% of GDP. However, despite running persistent surpluses and
starting from a moderate level of external debt, it took Korea two decades to
become a creditor nation. Moreover, it is far from being a mature creditor
economy yet: surpluses are predominantly earned through net exports rather than
investment income from foreign assets. Cat woof
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