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The volatility in equity prices in recent months has more to do with the peculiarities of China’s stock markets than with the country’s underlying economic fundamentals.
By contrast, the Chinese markets are dominated by retail investors, who are more likely to pursue short-term gains and engage in momentum trading, thereby exacerbating volatility and creating a greater disconnect between equity prices and real economic growth.
When the alternatives are few and provide only low returns, the equity market looks more attractive, especially if – as was the case – the country’s major newspapers are running bullish editorials about stock prices.
And it’s not even an option for smaller companies; selling equity is hard when you’re an SME.
Central bankers had told themselves that they were giving asset markets all of the attention that they deserved, by specifying that housing prices and equity prices could be taken into account to the extent that they implied information regarding goods inflation.
And a flat 2011 performance in some Latin American and Asian equity markets – following tremendous runs in 2010 – has taken a bit of sheen off the emerging-market investment fad.
The idea is simple: banks should be pressured to issue a new kind of debt that automatically converts into equity if the regulators determine that there is a systemic national financial crisis, and if the bank is simultaneously in violation of capital-adequacy covenants in the hybrid-security contract.
The theory of “debt overhang” – the intellectual origin of the proposal – explains why troubled banks are reluctant to issue new equity: the benefits accrue mostly to the bank’s bondholders and dilute existing shareholders.
Progress on this front would enable equity and bond markets to provide an important alternative to bank lending for the largest companies – and free up capital for banks to lend to SMEs and consumers.
To see the inadequacy of that package, compare it with the more than $1.5 trillion that was borrowed in home equity loans in recent years, most of it spent on consumption.
Thus, the evidence suggests that public funding of all key aspects of medical care – physician and hospital services, drugs, and devices –- offers benefits of equity, efficiency, and industrial advantage.
A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged: the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.
This has come at the expense of sectors that are more dependent on equity financing.
Important questions about equity will arise: Who gets to sell the last barrel of oil?
If we build it purposefully, we can address issues of equity and human rights, ensuring that the transition is fair and smooth, and that new energy infrastructure is ecologically sound and democratically controlled.
At the very least, it should create tax incentives for research and development, as well as for equity investments.
The French center-left must lead in conceiving a vision for Europe in which solidarity and equity reinforce long-term economic strength.
Some advocate individual behavior modification; others emphasize political/regulatory interventions, poverty alleviation, and promotion of social equity; still others call for collaboration with private enterprise, including Big Pharma.
This is why China’s equity limits for foreign investment in Chinese financial institutions are costly to the Chinese economy, and why raising these limits is important.
Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio equity, and portfolio debt to emerging markets reached record highs, with portfolio debt, the most volatile and most sensitive to sudden shifts in investor sentiment, growing the fastest.
Last October, the Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief issued an impressive 64-page report arguing that relieving severe pain is a “global health and equity imperative.”
One can only hope that our children’s generation will grow up to live in a world that does a better job of balancing efficiency and equity than we do.
And, as Anthony Atkinson reminds us in his masterful book on inequality, even technological change is not immune from government agency: There is much that policymakers can do to influence the direction of technological change and ensure that it leads to higher employment and greater equity.
But trade rules that are more sensitive to social and equity concerns in the advanced countries are not inherently in conflict with economic growth in poor countries.
But taxation is inherently political, as it involves issues of equity, justice, and the common good.
A far better idea is to force financial firms to issue much more equity (stock), as Stanford University’s Anat Admati has proposed.
China’s Malfunctioning Financial RegulationSHANGHAI – The tumult in China’s equity market appears to have come to an end.
There are many reasons why this won't happen, the most powerful being the end of Britain's equity boom and the consequent loss of revenue from taxes on the sale of stocks.
Moreover, UK pension funds are reporting large deficits due to the collapsing value of their equity holdings.
Brexit’s Blow To GlobalizationCAMBRIDGE – The United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum has shaken equity and financial markets around the world.
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