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Undercapitalization can be cured by an infusion of new equity.
In Hungary, non-residents hold 20% of government securities and account for 70% of the equity market's capitalization.
Vast amounts of short-term capital, speculating on interest rate convergence or equity market gains, are flowing into the most advanced candidate countries, driving up their currencies and increasing their vulnerability to a sudden capital-flow reversal.
In response, investors have sold the US dollar and bid up equity prices and US Treasuries, and commodities and emerging-market assets have surged.
It is encouraging, too, that private equity funds look interested in creating and funding new entrants.
Unfortunately, this has led to problems of social equity and environmental sustainability, which require complex coordination of bureaucratic silos in order to overcome the resistance of powerful vested interests.
While it may seem excessive to require the Saudi government, which owns 95% of Aramco, to consult with the remaining shareholders, an LSE Premium Listing usually requires just 25% equity.
This will require changes in corporate governance generally, and in non-financial corporations’ incentive structures, including preferential tax treatment for retained profits and equity finance, and special depreciation allowances for reinvested profits.
Andy Haldane of the Bank of England points out that, given the low pricing of bank equity, on a market-adjusted basis banks are not as strong as they seem.
Bankers, by contrast, point to the high cost of equity and argue that forcing banks to raise even more will increase the cost and decrease the availability of credit.
In Europe, around half of the improvement in capital ratios has come from reducing lending rather than raising new equity.
Although there is some evidence that bank debt is cheaper if equity backing is high, which one would expect, the reduction is not one for one.
On the other hand, higher equity for banks will reduce the incidence of bank failures, which impose high costs on the economy and on individuals.
Without accountability and clear targets set by the SDGs and the Paris agreement, the MDBs will continue to operate according to their own taxpayer-financed discretion, to the detriment of the climate, the environment, and social equity worldwide.
For starters, countries should embrace policies that favor foreign direct investment (FDI) over inflows that can be withdrawn more quickly, such as foreign bank loans, debt, or equity investments.
The final piece of the development-financing puzzle is external private funding, delivered via foreign direct investment, international bank loans, bond and equity markets, and private remittances.
Before the global economic crisis, entrepreneurs often relied on personal savings, credit cards, home equity loans, and investments by friends and family for start-up capital.
Unfortunately, program-related spending still represents only 1% of capital deployed by foundations, with just 0.05% of that going toward equity investments.
Sovereign debt should come with equity backing, and emissions of government securities should be capped.
They are right that Fannie and Freddie were “too big to fail,” which enabled them to borrow more cheaply and take on more risk – with too little equity funding to back up their exposure.
Its government should cooperate with the IMF to devise a program that combines equity and efficiency.
One of those points is that the world’s largest financial firms have equity that is worth only about 4% of their total assets.
As shareholders’ equity is the only real buffer against losses in these corporations, this means that a 4% decline in their assets’ value would completely wipe out their shareholders – taking the companies to the brink of insolvency.
Current corporate structures are opaque, with the risks hidden around the world – and various shell games allowing companies to claim the same equity in more than one country.
Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs.
It is a matter of both equity and efficiency.
Senior bank managers would be paid not in cash or equity, but in the bank’s long-term bonds, thereby giving them a larger financial stake in the bank’s long-term stability, instead of its long-term stock price.
Many issues that should be viewed through the veil of ignorance fall into the categories of environmental sustainability, social equity, and corporate governance.
Not knowing whether they were male or female, they would ensure pay equity and better policies concerning parental leave and child care.
That’s especially true of American consumers who have relied on appreciation of equity holdings and home values to support over-extended lifestyles.
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