Comment on Vincent Reinhart: “The Origin, Propagation, and Magnification of the Financial Crisis” Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist Oct. 9,

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Comment on Vincent Reinhart: “The Origin, Propagation, and Magnification of the Financial Crisis” Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist Oct. 9, 2009

Reinhart: identifies factors that produced, spread and intensified crisis Most research so far: “narrow and focused inward to the United States” “The initiating economic shock.. Appeared small and localized compared to the havoc wreaked on global markets” Call for a global explanation Implicitly de-emphasizes domestic explanations The global explanation is compelling But leaves some mysteries

Mystery #1: Why did some countries have housing bubbles but not banking crises?

Mystery #2: Why did some countries with current account deficits not have crises?

Mystery #3: Why did some countries avoid crises but not recessions?

Mystery #3 solved Reinhart: “Linkages have turned out to be very important.” Canada’s & Japan’s export dependency resulted in recession Spain’s enormous dependence on residential investment resulted in recession More generally: financial contagion: animal spirits with or without CDOs

What about U.S. monetary policy? Reinhart exonerates Fed Global saving glut broke link between U.S. short and long term rates But all major central banks maintained low rates: with hindsight, a synchronized policy error? Either story would explain global housing bubble, reduce Fed culpability

What about U.S. regulatory policy? Reinhart: during crisis, Treasury & Fed intervention impaired private resolution Before crisis, policy encouraged excessive investment in homes: Community Reinvestment Act, GSEs Unconvincing: CRA only covered banks but loans originated by banks performed better than loans originated by mortgage brokers (Jiang) GSEs did increase subprime exposure but to meet public mandates or recapture market?

The real regulatory failures The structure of the domestic financial system, including regulation, helps explain mysteries #1 and #2 Reinhart: U.S. “exported some of its innovations in housing finance” German banks purchased CDOs, UBS heavily exposed to subprime MBS UK banks offered 125% down loans, relied on wholesale funding But Australia, Canada had well developed MBS markets and no crisis

US subprime mortgage market unusually large Source: Guy DeBelle, RBA, May 16,2008

US has largest shadow banking system (banks’ share of credit, %) Source: IMF WEO, Sept Ch. 4 p. 4

Shadow banking Pluses: innovative products (ARMs), increased credit availability, higher home ownership, reduced dependence on taxpayer via deposit insurance (or so we thought) Minus: more leveraged financial system, vulnerable to crisis Minus: banks sought to level the playing field by circumventing capital, regulation (with implicit support of Fed & other regulators), purchasing nonbank loan originators

Not at first a banking crisis Sequence of distress/failure inversely correlated with capital, regulation First : standalone finance companies (New Century, 2007) Second: investment banks, GSEs (March- July 2008) Third: banks (Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Citigroup, Bank of America – Sept-Dec 2008)

Policy implications No obvious solution to global savings glut and recurrence of bubbles (The next time will not be different) Increased bank capital requirements could revive shadow banking, regulatory arbitrage Geithner plan gives Fed oversight of biggest shadow banks (i.e. GE Capital) but will it miss some? It doesn’t sufficiently address absence of effective state-level regulation Is the Fed the right agency to carry out this job?