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Some 80% of trade happens along supply chains within or organized by transnational firms, according to a 2013 UN report.
Treating foreign and domestic firms the same with respect to competitive practices would stop these abuses.
The catch-up process also takes place within countries, as labor moves from low-productivity rural activities to higher-productivity urban activities, and as low-productivity firms in all sectors emulate their more advanced domestic counterparts.
Smaller firms are gradually recuperating; banks have rebuilt their capital cushions and reduced their dubious assets; the housing sector has stabilized; and a growing number of households are reestablishing healthier balance sheets, especially as employment gradually picks up.
With its ample low-cost labor supply, Africa also could attract these firms.
China and other emerging economies may also lose some jobs as firms in advanced economies reverse outsourcing and move manufacturing operations closer to home.
Twitter’s censors have even hit the heart of Europe; in January, a German satire magazine was blocked from the platform after the Bundestag enacted legislation imposing fines of up to €50 million ($61 million) on social media firms that fail to remove illegal content in a timely manner.
Trading firms need to bribe customs bureaucrats.
Free securities markets will enable firms to raise private capital, and will destroy the lever that bureaucrats have over firms because they allocate credits.
After less than two years of the program, almost 20,000 medium and large firms have been privatized, two thirds of the industrial workers are employed in the private sector, and over 40 million Russian people have become shareholders.
The privatized firms are making new products, exporting their output, laying off workers and finding foreign investors.
The ministers have lost almost all their control over privatized firms, which means that firms can turn to making money without being hobbled by, or bribing, the ministers.
Because privatization reduced bureaucratic control over firms, these firms have started restructuring.
Soon afterwards, firms began to pay anti-monopoly officials just to get off the list.
Privatization has also created a powerful new constituency for further liberalization, including businessmen, brokers, managers of privatized firms, and not least of all the 40 million new shareholders.
Today, however, China’s protectionist regime does little to help nascent industries in the poor interior, because their biggest competitors are no longer foreign companies, but rather firms from the dynamic coastal areas.
Revaluation of the renminbi would make it more expensive for foreign firms to establish themselves (or expand) in China – the world’s most dynamic market – and would render exports of foreign affiliates, which account for 54% of total exports, less competitive internationally.
But the most notable development of recent years has been the surge in China’s outward FDI since the government adopted its “go global” policy in 2000, encouraging Chinese firms to invest overseas.
The increasing international competitiveness of Chinese firms, together with government policy, has been the main driver of China’s skyrocketing outward FDI.
A renewed renminbi appreciation would boost China’s outward FDI growth even further by lowering the cost of overseas assets for Chinese firms, which operate in a fairly competitive market and have strong cash reserves from both retained earnings and large-scale state credit allocations.
The revaluation effect would be reinforced by rising wage pressures inside China, which are already leading some labor-intensive Chinese firms to invest abroad (there are more than 700 Chinese affiliates in Vietnam alone).
Some of these firms have been weighing whether to move production abroad or to inland provinces of China; revaluation could push them in the former direction.
Like their Japanese and South Korean counterparts, however, Chinese firms will have to learn how to operate in highly sophisticated developed-country markets, as well as in developing countries, where their investments in natural resources are expanding rapidly.
Unlike during the global financial crisis of 2008, the cost of credit for most firms and families in the United Kingdom hasn’t risen; if anything, it has fallen.
As it stands, the UK economy is beset with skills shortages: more than two-thirds of firms are not confident they can fill vacancies for high-skill jobs over the next 3-5 years.
In many organizations and firms, EU citizens comprise more than 40% of employees.
And financial institutions are making precise lending decisions in seconds rather than weeks, thanks to a wealth of online data on individuals and firms.
So, forget about blockchain, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, and start investing in fintech firms with actual business models, which are slogging away to revolutionize the financial-services industry.
I have also argued, based on a model of mine, that as the return of a strong dollar by early 2015 threatened to inundate American markets with imports, firms became scared to supply more output at the same price.
MacArthur attacked concentrated economic power under the assumption that large landholders and large firms become pawns of government.
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