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The excessive imbalances procedure (EIP) Declan COSTELLO & Aurora MORDONU DG ECFIN 29 November 2011 European Commission Outline • A description of the EIP • Monitoring housing market developments: analyical approaches and future work Part I A description of surveillance under the preventive and corrective arms of the EIP Overall changes to economic governance Excessive Imbalances Procedure external and internal imbalances European Systemic Risk Board financial stability and macro & micro level Stability and Growth Pact European semester and the 2020 strategy growth enhancing structural reforms fiscal policy AND …. the ongoing debate on EFSF/ESM and Eurogroup goverance Internal imbalances External imbalances Broad scope of surveillance • External positions (e.g. current accounts, net international investment positions) • Competitiveness developments (e.g. REERs, ULCs)Export performance (e.g. export market shares) • Private sector indebtedness (e.g. credit, debt) • Assets markets (e.g. housing) The preventive arm of the EIP Policy response No problem Procedure stops. Alert mechanism In-depth review Economic reading of early warning scoreboard indicators to identify Member States with potential risks Analysis to distinguish between benign and harmful macroeconomic developments and to identify policy options Imbalance exists Commission/Council recommendations under Article 121.2 Severe imbalance Commission/Council recommendation under Article 121.4 The Corrective Arm Sufficient Member State is placed in “Excessive Imbalance Position” abeyance Corrective Action Plan Surveillance of compliance with reform commitments Insufficient Insufficient: fine 0.1% of GDP interest bearing deposit Insufficient: Fine 0.1% of GDP The Corrective Arm is INTRUSIVE and FOCUSSED Sufficient Member State is placed in an Excessive Imbalance Position abeyance Corrective Action Plan Surveillance of compliance with reform commitments Fine 0.1% Insufficient: of GDP interest bearing deposit Insufficient: Fine 0.1% of GDP … and works by reverse Qualified Majority Voting Sufficient Member State is placed in an Excessive Imbalance Position abeyance Corrective Action Plan Surveillance of compliance with reform commitments Fine 0.1% Insufficient: of GDP interest bearing deposit Insufficient: Fine 0.1% of GDP Challenges in applying the EIP • Analytical – – – – large degree of qualitative judgement especially if acting early requires considerable country specific knowledge; data limitations limited consensus on policy responses. • Political – Positive : greater awareness of the costs of inaction and spillover effects, and not easy to form blocking minorities; – Challenge: macro challenges with euro area spillovers that require micro policy responses in areas of national competence – … hinge on effectiveness of overall governance package and ongoing discussion to overhaul the Eurogroup Next steps • Finalising the scoreboard design. ECOFIN supported the envisaged design on 7 November 2011, and comments expected from the European Parliament and ESRB by mid December • Commission will present its Alert Mechanism Report (expected either 20 December or 4 January) for discussion in ECOFIN-Eurogroup in January Part II Monitoring housing market developments The choice of indicators: main considerations • Limited SET of indicators that capture external and internal imbalances at an early stage, and take account of stocks and flows • Timely availability Member States and broad coverage of • Aim to respect the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice of the European Statistical System (ESS) Public policy intervention in housing markets • The angle of surveillance under the EIP: potential house price bubbles, due to concerns linked to: o Wealth and collateral effects (Consumption) o Reallocation of resources towards the construction sector (Investment, employment) o Bank balance sheets, impact on macro-economic stability • Broad scope: general access to affordable housing, labour mobility, spatial developments, energy efficiency • Equity and efficiency policy goals (study) Sustainability of macro-trends • Early warning • Deviation from equilibrium (competitiveness, credit growth, housing prices) Identification of problematic • Other factors (GDP growth, demography, catching-up, global imbalances, saving and investment imbalances, housing and other asset markets, shocks) • Policy determinants (fiscal policy, financial regulation, labour market institutions) imbalances Adjustment capacity • Price and wage flexibility • Labour market flexibility • Financial market intermediation EIP • Balance sheet adjustment Spillovers • Trade linkages • Financial linkages Policy options Policy Response • Wage bargaining system • Financial market regulation • Fiscal policy • Growth and structural reforms Policies affecting housing markets Hinging on a broad set of policies: • Monetary policy • Macro-prudential policies (Loan to Value Ratio, forex borrowing) • Taxation policy (mortgage interest rate deductibility) • Regulatory issues affecting supply (building permits) Types of tools/frameworks needed to conduct surveillance on macroeconomic imbalances • development of analytical frameworks conceptual indicators, e.g. equilibrium house prices, affordability measures, asset-pricing models • statistical datasets, e.g. the EIP database • analytical frameworks useful for identifying policy responses to imbalances • information sets on institutional settings at Member State level LIME workshop on housing – 8-9 December 1. Stock taking: Methodologies and tools Methodological approaches to assess equilibrium house prices The house price cycle and the real economy 2. Policies and structural features Structural features and policies of housing markets Demand and Supply-side policies interaction 3.Case studies involving experts from the Member States and country desks: SE, IE, ES 18 Thank you for your attention! 19