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Fifth, it is crucial to value equity as opportunity.
Instead, they took the inflows in the form of direct investment, equity, or debt denominated in local currency.
First, policymakers must aim for “intergenerational equity.”
It is of course tricky to establish the level of government spending that is consistent with intergenerational equity, owing to uncertainty about oil reserves, future oil prices, and investment returns.
In a recent interview, the PBOC’s governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, suggested that the SRF would concentrate more on “cooperation projects,” particularly direct equity investment, before hinting at the Fund’s “just right” financing features.
For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.
Moreover, the SRF could act as a catalyst for other state financial institutions to contribute to a selected project’s equity and debt financing.
The Fund and other private and public investors – would first make joint equity investments in the project.
China Exim and the CDB could subsequently disburse loans for debt financing, with the CIC providing further equity financing.
When the AIIB is up and running, it, too, could support this process, by arranging debt financing alongside SRF’s initial equity investment.
Executives collected generous bonuses, and equity holders were protected by limited liability.
Although the financial sector lost more than half of its stock-market value during the last five years, executives were still able to cash out, prior to the stock market implosion, large amounts of equity compensation and bonus compensation.
In general, the eurozone has outsized banks (assets equivalent to 325% of GDP) that are highly leveraged (the 15 largest banks’ leverage is 28.9 times their equity capital).
According to Barclays Capital, the 15 largest banks increased their returns on equity by 58% between 1998 and 2007, with 90% of the gain coming from higher leverage.
But, as “risk-free” rates have risen six-fold in the past two years, the cost of bank equity and debt has often surged to levels at which investors balk.
Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.
Indeed, in many countries, bank guarantees can be issued only on the basis of local subsidiary equity, without support from the parent’s balance sheet.
All countries, advanced and emerging, have to address issues of inclusiveness, distribution, and equity as part of the core of their growth and development strategies.
In my own experience, I have seen how Rwanda made investing in social progress – including gender equity, a 61% reduction in child mortality in a single decade, and 95% primary school enrollment – integral to its economic development strategy.
Some reforms – such as those promoting impartiality and efficiency of legal institutions – are good for growth and equity (in this case, equality of opportunity).
Moreover, the greater equity it brings serves to make economic growth more sustainable, such as by reducing systemic fragilities that can lead to sharp downturns.
(This differential is not as significant statistically, however, because equity prices are so volatile.)
True crowdfunding, or equity crowdfunding, refers to the activities of online platforms that sell shares of startup companies directly to large numbers of small investors, bypassing traditional venture capital or investment banking.
Their write-offs were 2.0%, 4.2% and 2.8% of GDP, respectively, which corresponds to 11%, 16% and 22% of the aggregate equity stock of their banking systems.
Rather, the banking system is at the brink of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.
They will continue to deprive the banking system of its equity capital, with little chance of it being recouped in the near future.
Banks would scale down their balance sheets in proportion to their reported equity losses and exacerbate the credit crunch from which the world is already suffering today.
Bad banks that are constructed generously enough to provide banks with hidden equity injections are one way to avoid or mitigate the credit crunch.
Instead, they should become partners of private shareholders, endowing the banks temporarily with new equity capital until the crisis is over.
It helps banks immediately, and it creates the right incentives for future behavior, as banks will know that the government will not prevent private equity capital from being destroyed in a crisis.
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