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In the same report, the IMF rang alarm bells over potential equity bubbles, pointing out that “stock prices are currently above trend levels in most countries, with signs of stretched valuations in a few countries (Chile, Colombia, and Peru).”
Asia’s economies were built on debt finance more than equity finance.
The banks made large loans to undercapitalized enterprises, which were thereby able to expand rapidly despite a shortage of equity capital.
One key step, therefore, is a large-scale conversion of enterprise debt to equity.
The banks would no longer hold unpayable debt, but rather marketable equity.
This equity could then be sold to foreign and domestic investors.
When the euro was introduced, regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital, and the ECB discounted all eurozone government bonds on equal terms.
The growing involvement of private equity groups in M&A activity implies additional controversy, as such transactions are typically regarded as being purely speculative.
What matters is a sense of equity and fair play.
But existing asset classes all too often fail to provide the structure needed for these projects to compete with traditional equity or debt.
In order to overcome the obstacles to investment, we propose the creation of an asset class that we call “buy-and-hold equity" (BHE).
This asset class would sit between traditional equity and debt, with investors able to hold it for 15 years or longer.
It would offer returns close to those yielded by equity investments, but with some of the risk offset by its long-term nature.
Finally, the regulated nature of cash flows would allow for better pre-defined return structures than traditional private or public equity can offer.
In today’s uncertain world, social turmoil, gender deprivation, and rising conflict have tested countries’ abilities to create jobs, promote gender equity, equip young people with skills, and design effective social protection programs.
GDP growth has slowed sharply; corporate-debt ratios are unprecedentedly high; the currency is sliding; equity markets are exceptionally volatile; and capital is flowing out of the country at an alarming pace.
This was certainly true in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, when right-wing ideology dominated, producing a one-size-fits-all prescription entailing privatization, liberalization, and macroeconomic stability (meaning price stability), with little attention to employment, equity, or the environment.
Of the 14 indicators of progress associated with the primary gender equity goal, SDG 5, most countries are measuring just three.
The benefits of gender equity are also apparent when women have access to basic financial services, like credit and savings accounts, which enable them to start businesses and save money for family essentials.
As a result, while sliding equity markets and a further decline in oil (and other commodity) prices have sparked much talk of another global recession, dire predictions are likely to prove overly gloomy and misdirected.
But the really big bucks come from the fact that places like the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of Japan passively hold enormous volumes of low-interest US debt, while Americans romp around the world with venture capital, private equity, and investment banks, reaping huge gains.
Admati and her colleagues recommend requirements that force financial firms to generate equity funding either through retained earnings or, in the case of publicly traded firms, through stock issuance.
The status quo allows banks instead to leverage taxpayer assistance by holding razor-thin equity margins, relying on debt to a far greater extent than typical large non-financial firms do.
Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.
The financial industry complains that efforts to force greater equity funding would curtail lending, but this is just nonsense in a general equilibrium setting.
The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue “contingent capital” (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to punish banks severely in the event of a crisis.
Its activities should include raising capital (equity and debt) for global education; providing investment-banking services to governments, businesses, and multilateral agencies in cooperation with local banks; and offering consulting and advisory services for public-private partnerships, privatization, decentralization, loans, and concessionary finance negotiations.
Indeed, the massive equity and housing price increases of the past dozen or so years probably owe as much to greater macroeconomic stability as to any other factor.
But if a major flare-up causes investors to lose confidence in low volatility, the bottom could fall out from under equity and housing prices.
New “green banks” can help to bring in funding from debt and equity markets.
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