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In both Korea and Japan, large firms’ entry into the service sector is impeded by restrictive regulation, for which small producers are an influential lobby.
Foreign firms that are carriers of innovative organizational knowledge and technology are barred from coming in.
The massive injection of liquidity into China’s economy has contributed to rising debt, especially among local governments and firms, while fueling massive real-estate bubbles, and resulting in significant excess capacity.
Many firms are able to renegotiate financing terms with their creditors – typically extending the maturity of their liabilities, which enables them to borrow more to finance new, better projects.
If such negotiation cannot be achieved voluntarily, US firms can use Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, under which a court supervises and approves the reorganization of liabilities.
Matters were exacerbated by firms’ postponement until a recession of hard choices about closing unviable plants and shedding workers.
So, rather than hire in a panic at the first sign of recovery, as they did in the past, for fear that they will be unable to do so later and lose sales, firms today would rather ensure that the recovery is well established before hiring.
From a microeconomic perspective, a sudden exchange-rate shock and sharp increase in oil prices impedes firms’ ability to adjust their technology and production methods to meet new cost conditions, eventually undermining TFP growth.
But what Schumpeter called “creative destruction” can facilitate the eventual emergence and expansion of new, more efficient firms.
A generalized run on the banking system has been a source of fear for the first time in seven decades, while the shadow banking system – broker-dealers, non-bank mortgage lenders, structured investment vehicles and conduits, hedge funds, money market funds, and private equity firms – are at risk of a run on their short-term liabilities.
When the $200 billion rescue of these firms was undertaken and their $6 trillion in liabilities taken over by the US government, the rally lasted one day.
Simply put, most firms – and especially SMEs – can’t borrow easily at the T-bill rate.
They may refuse to lend to some firms.
First, low interest rates encourage firms to invest in more capital-intensive technologies, resulting in demand for labor falling in the longer term, even as unemployment declines in the short term.
Some sectors or firms – especially those that rely heavily on imports, such as US retailers – would face sharp increases in their tax liabilities; in some cases, these increases would be even greater than their pre-tax profits.
Meanwhile, sectors or firms that export, like those in manufacturing, would enjoy significant reductions in their tax burden.
Making matters worse, the BAT would not actually protect US firms from foreign competition.
Disagreement over the BAT extends to business as well, with firms that export more than they import supporting it, and vice versa.
Many of the more impartial polling firms, such as Luis Christiansen’s Consultores 21, Varianzas, and Keller, all show a surprisingly large proportion of undecided voters – those who do not answer or do not know for whom they will vote.
Yet Japan continues to work inside a linguistic bubble – not least because many firms in Japan are oriented toward the domestic market and pay little heed to global trends.
Switching to English makes Japanese firms more competitive, while opening employees’ eyes to the outside world.
Physicians and nurses should be encouraged to work with new health practitioners to engage external stakeholders, such as schools, food companies, financial firms, and social services.
True, inward FDI reached about $70 billion in 2006, but this is below the 1998-1999 peak, and a large share came from Latin American firms investing in neighboring countries, whereas inflows from Europe and the United States have fallen.
Redressing the problems of high unemployment and large informal sectors – where almost half of all goods and services are produced – is perhaps the region’s most urgent policy challenge, particularly because most investment and growth by domestic firms is related to high commodity prices, which do little to create new jobs.
This requires investigation of markets and trends, and identification of specific firms that would be desirable for the clusters or niches that the country wants to promote.
Such training can be made available through various channels – including private firms and trade unions – with government support.
Weaker companies are shedding labor, while stronger firms are delaying investments in plant and equipment.
Even as reputable firms ensure the quality of all their inputs, this loophole can allow unsafe products to enter the market, as occurred in 2008, when at least 81 Americans died after receiving doses of the blood thinner heparin that contained adulterated Chinese material.
But, as the 2008 global financial crisis starkly demonstrated, it can render markets dysfunctional, with ambiguity about different regulators’ responsibilities making it difficult, even impossible, to address the problems caused by failing firms.
The benefits are shared among workers: Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers found that, on average, US export-intensive industries pay workers up to 18% more than non-exporting firms.
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