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Finance in Transitional and Developing Economies : China and Others. Topics: Growth and Inequality in a ‘Dualistic’ Economy Property Rights and Distribution Financial Depth vs. Breadth. Surplus Labor in Agriculture: Marginal Product approaches 0. Consumption. investment. Agricultural
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Finance in Transitional and Developing Economies: China and Others Topics: • Growth and Inequality in a ‘Dualistic’ Economy • Property Rights and Distribution • Financial Depth vs. Breadth Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Surplus Labor in Agriculture: Marginal Product approaches 0 Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Consumption investment Agricultural Production investment (transition) Non-Agricultural Production Gus Ranis: “Labor Surplus Economies”, http://papers.ssrn.com Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Surplus Labor, Dualistic Economy Nobel Prize Winning Model Developed by • Arthur Lewis (St. Lucia) • Gustav Ranis (Germany) • John Fei (Taiwan) • Growth with Equity: The Taiwan Case • (Oxford University Press, 1979) • John C. H. Fei, Gustav Ranis, Shirley W. Y. Kuo Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Implications of Two-Sector Model: • Agricultural and Industrial Wages Linked, kept flat by Surplus Labor. • Wages can only rise strongly when Labor Surplus is used up. • Non-Agricultural Profits grow much faster than Wages. Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Tied Wages, Japan Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Tied Wages, Taiwan Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Property Rights & Distribution • East Asian Development successes linked with new broadly distributed forms of property rights. (South Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam) • These property rights land reforms achieve: • Better matching of labor with land resources, • Incentives for long term investment, • More liquidity in the market for agricultural property. • Broader Distribution of Financial Assets is more complex, but may have even greater long term benefits for productivity and growth. Stodder: Financial Transition, July
TWO TRANSITIONS on INCOME DISTRIBUTION East-Asian: Growth and Equality Inversely Correlated East-European: No Clear Pattern Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Soviet-Sphere Privatizations Large Range of Methods: • Rapid ‘Voucher’ Privatization, Czech Republic • Gradual Privatization, Hungary • ‘Oligarch’ Loans-for-Shares, Russia Stodder: Financial Transition, July
China’s Financial System:Deep but not Broad We will see that Financial Assets in China: • Have unusual depth, forming an unusually high portion of GDP, but • Lack the breadth associated with other Rapidly Developing Economies, since they are narrowly confined to the Banking Sector. Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Financial ‘Deepening’ Correlates with Higher GDP per capita http://unctad.org/en/docs/dp_142.en.pdf Stodder: Financial Transition, July
But China’s M2/GDP ratio is out of proportion to its GDP http://www.allcountries.org/china_statistics/index.html Stodder: Financial Transition, July
M2 and Household Savings Very High Proportion of GDP Stodder: Financial Transition, July
http://www.allcountries.org/china_statistics/index.html Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Volatility of Shanghai Composite Index Stodder: Financial Transition, July
If Household Saving is ‘Bottled-up’ in Banks, May Pressure Excess Stock Speculation Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Bank Dependency may also Weaken Response to Currency Crisis 8% 6% 4% 2% 0% -2% -4% -6% -8% t-3 t-2 t-1 t t+1 t+2 t+3 www.meti.go.jp/english/report/downloadfiles/g99W004e.pdf Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Banking is State-Owned in China McKinsey Global Institute, China Capital Report, 2006 Stodder: Financial Transition, July
State Banks Loan Mostlyto State-Connected Enterprises Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Foreign & Private Enterprises More Efficient, Even in Similar Industries Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Integration of Reforms • Observed Problems Closely Inter-linked Undeveloped Consumer Loan Market Very Small Bond Market Limited SME Access to Capital Lack of Domestic Institutional Investors Cheap Corporate Bank Loans Small, Under-performing Equity Market Inefficient Bank Operation Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Poor Credit Assessment Limited forms of Collateral • ROOT CAUSES Very Small Bond Market Undeveloped Consumer Loan Market Limited SME Access to Capital Lack of Domestic Institutional Investors Cheap Corporate Bank Loans Lack of Bank Competition Small, Under-performing Equity Market Inefficient Bank Operation Stodder: Financial Transition, July
Conclusion:If Problems are Inter-Linked- Reforms must also be well-Integrated Stodder: Financial Transition, July