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Guarantees, soft loans, and equity investments backed by development aid can help attract investors, as has occurred with solar energy projects in Mali and manufacturing plants in Ethiopia.
Last time, interest rates were too low for too long (2001-2004), and the subsequent rate normalization was too slow, inflating huge bubbles in credit, housing, and equity markets.
Similarly, the volatility premium, defined as the price of options that insure against falls in the equity index, has fallen considerably.
The US market’s share of global equity valuations is the highest it has ever been – a remarkable statistic given the declining US share of global economic activity.
The first set of shadow activities includes those conducted by the banks themselves, for example, as a way to reduce the amount of equity funding that they need.
They funded this activity with a lot of short-term debt and a wafer-thin cushion of equity.
This means that a large segment of the business community raises funds, shares equity, and manages operations within small, tight-knit social circles.
So is buying or holding equity in firms that may be holding risky assets, regardless of how “safe” a firm’s stock was previously thought to be.
And there would still be a need to decide how to balance efficiency and equity in the provision of services.
A bankruptcy system that allows entrepreneurs to survive the inevitable failures that accompany innovation, as well as stronger protection of intellectual property and improved access to equity finance, are also needed.
Social equity is not irrelevant even in America, the land of opportunity.
Both Democratic and Republican candidates have pledged to repeal the carried-interest provision that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to pay a lower rate than other earners.
Similarly, both private enterprises and SOEs could use market buoyancy to raise equity to fund new investments.
But the rapid run-up in equity prices also carries considerable risks – namely, the possibility that the financial sector will misuse the newfound liquidity to finance more speculative investment in asset bubbles, while supporting old industries with excess capacity.
Such “locked liquidity” can be returned to the market in the form of new bank credit or new equity.
And the effect of spending by the rich on non-rich households’ spending was higher in areas where house prices could move more, suggesting that housing credit and the ability to borrow against rising home equity may have supported over-consumption by the non-rich.
White equity owners were required to sell shares to blacks in equity deals that were often highly leveraged and publicly financed.
But the obsession with “black” equity ownership, besides making a few plutocrats super-rich, does not seem to be delivering “emancipation.”
In the years following 2000 but before the financial crisis hit, the proportion of SWF equity investments allocated to foreign markets had been increasing, reaching a peak of 90% during the second quarter of 2008.
Accordingly, the underperformance of SWF equity portfolios might be a consequence of unfortunate, but constrained, timing, rather than a result of poor stock picking.
In particular, their executives operate highly opaque firms, with risks effectively masked from outsiders and very little in the way of loss-absorbing shareholder equity.
It is not surprising that equity investors have responded to the surge in animal spirits by attempting to run ahead of a possible uptick in economic performance.
Second, in July 2002, the city of Syracuse, New York, in conjunction with the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the Yale School of Management, and Realliquidity, LLC, created home equity insurance that pays out if an index of city home prices declines.
Home equity insurance will clearly not solve all the problems of individual risk, but it will solve a very big one.
As I have argued in previous commentaries, and in a recent academic paper written with Michael Troege, requiring banks to have more capital raises their tax bill, because it reduces the level of tax-deductible debt and increases that of taxable equity.
International equity markets have not been exempt from contagion.
But no one should be surprised if the current sharp fall in equity prices is followed by a swift return to bullishness, at least in the short term.
Opponents of the double standard draw on principles of fairness, equity, and distributive justice.
The best way to capitalize on the people of a country or region is through social equity.
Amartya Sen, in his magisterial The Idea of Justice, concluded that true social equity requires not equal treatment for all, but rather unequal treatment in favor of the poor and most disadvantaged.
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