Firms
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All of the
firms
they led collapsed, and were saved only by money from those who could never get a senior job on Wall Street or a place at Harvard.
Life insurance companies, drug firms, businesses providing services for the elderly, and investors in retirement real estate would all benefit from increased longevity, while defined-benefit pension plans and annuity providers would lose.
China’s blue-chip
firms
– Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent – are listed in New York or Hong Kong, where they are priced either in US or Hong Kong dollars.
For that reason, agro-processing
firms
shut down.
So the state should have only a few
firms
in strategic sectors or in activities that are rife with market failures.
And you would spend money on public-relations
firms
and charlatans to try to confuse the public about the science so that you could continue this as long as possible, just like tobacco companies did recently about the safety of smoking.
(Indeed, you would use some of the same
firms
and charlatans.)
Competition requires redundancy – three or four
firms
competing to accomplish the same task or deliver the same product, outdoing one another and ultimately advancing the market.
Monetary integration would weaken the existing distortions, reduce the scope for political intervention, and force European
firms
to become more competitive.
Taken all together, this will lead to increasing competition and more efficient European
firms.
This, of course, will constitute a dramatic change in the ways in which
firms
operate.
Today, many European
firms
aim to be as good as the best German, Swedish, or British
firms.
In future, the yardsticks for performance will be found in Japan and the United States, and that means increased competition for European
firms.
These private sector improvements, however, are nowhere to be seen among large businesses controlled by Government, even though many of these
firms
have a substantial minority of private shareholders who need protection from managerial abuse.
Management in these firms, indeed, has become more arrogant and inventive in violating shareholder rights.
But many
firms
receive tax incentives.
But it remains unclear if these figures are in line with what most Chinese
firms
pay.
And that does not even account for rampant tax evasion by small
firms.
This has contributed to the erosion of Chinese firms’ profit margins, which, according to TCL Corp Chairman Li Dongsheng, have dropped to less than 2%, on average.
While it is impossible to estimate the precise size of Chinese firms’ tax burden, they feel under pressure.
Taxes, duties, and fees for businesses must be lowered, as should the share of social insurance paid by
firms
for their employees in China.
At the same time, China’s leaders must commit to curbing the soaring costs of land and financing, thereby paving the way for creating a more equal and competitive market for all
firms.
The ESAs also need more money, which probably can come from fees levied on financial firms, and consideration should be given to merging them in a single location, presumably Brussels.
Indeed, the reality is that corruption imposes a large, often random, tax on businesses, not least by discouraging officials from cutting red tape for all
firms
– a move that really would boost growth.
In 2013, the average employee of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, earned $383,000 – much higher than what the best-performing employee in most
firms
can hope to take home.
At the other end of the spectrum, many labor-force participants are on temporary contracts, work for small firms, or are self-employed.
Employees of large, profitable
firms
tend to enjoy better health-care coverage, more generous pensions, and easier access to training.
Such differences are questionable not only in terms of fairness; they are also economically inefficient, because they tend to limit labor mobility across
firms
and sectors.
But it should ensure that all participants in the labor force, whatever their status, enjoy equal access to essential benefits; and it should aim at minimizing the losses that impede mobility across firms, sectors, and types of employment.
As a result, only three
firms
submitted tenders, and the initial winner was SQM, one of the two
firms
already engaged in lithium production in Chile.
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