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A striking 85% of large Dutch firms report innovative activities, while more than 50% of all firms are “innovation active.”
Dutch firms are also world patent leaders;Eindhoven, the hometown of the electronics company Philips, is the world’s most patent-intensive city.
If households and firms anticipate a tax increase in the future as a result of government borrowing today, they will reduce their consumption and investment accordingly.
If anything, in his most recent speech, Fischer seemed to brush aside any such fears – assuring his audience that there is great social value in continuing to have extremely large financial firms that operate with so very little equity capital (and therefore a great deal of leverage).
One idea currently gaining traction is to tax firms offering free-to-use digital services differently, so that their intangible value receives the same tax treatment as the tangible value produced by manufacturers and traditional service providers.
Alternatively, the data collected in some industries could become so widely shared across competing firms that they will all converge on a single price for each individual.
Amid the ongoing debate about how the dominant tech firms should and should not be allowed to use personal data collected from users online, many of these firms have continued to decide these questions for themselves – and, by extension, for the rest of us, too.
German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor-intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany.
Within the industry, aggressive large firms, including many from China, are now flexing their muscles on the global stage.
Later, in 2003, Marc Melitz showed how trade could shift resources from low-productivity to high-productivity firms.
Indeed, after sucking resources and money from Russia and its citizens, Putin and his obedient oligarchs have been allowed to invest their ill-gotten gains in European and US banks and real estate, paying fat fees that have fueled profit growth for Western firms.
Running inflation below the level debtors had reason to expect translates into high real interest rates, which in turn risks triggering defaults among borrowers, including mortgagors, firms, and governments.
In Latin America, economy-wide productivity has stagnated despite significant innovation in the best-managed firms and vanguard sectors.
British law firms that have apparently made a lot of money representing libel plaintiffs from around the world impeded adoption of the new law through intense lobbying.
Second, we thought that the depositors prone to panic would always be small depositors – households and small firms – rather than corporations or professional investors.
This is particularly true of the repo markets, which provide the equivalent services for professional investors – banks and large corporations – that ordinary bank deposits provide for individuals and small firms.
Banks, firms, and households are still cleaning up their balance sheets and working off the heaps of debt they amassed during the credit boom that preceded the bust.
But that would require the TPP to foster, not impede, the flow of knowledge around the Pacific Rim.Regrettably, the United States is insisting on a series of intellectual-property provisions that serve the interests of US-based firms, but do little to create a sound environment for innovation elsewhere.
Firms in Chile or Peru – or Colombia or Uruguay, for that matter – enjoy no such opportunities.
Innovative firms face the uphill challenge of developing entire new products and selling them in geographically and economically distant markets.
Moreover, the firms listed on China’s stock exchanges are not representative of the country’s companies.
Majority state-owned firms account for two-thirds of the market value of the country’s exchanges, for example, though they are responsible for no more than one-third of Chinese GDP and an even smaller share of employment.
This means that it will need to overhaul its state-owned firms and the financial sector so that resources can flow to the most productive investment projects.
Lowering the tax burden on firms – including the payroll tax – would also be useful.
While China used to have a relatively flexible labor market in the manufacturing sector, firms’ reallocation of workers based on market needs has become more difficult in recent years.
Yet, while large global firms habitually use their high concentration of financial resources to press for further de-regulation (“or we will go somewhere else”), the crisis has turned their size into a liability.
Similarly, time-inconsistency issues prevent large international firms from compartmentalizing their markets.
Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential treatments and vaccines, indicating that they already had the ability to produce plausible candidates.
For pharmaceutical firms, the development of a vaccine or treatment was not commercially attractive, and so it did not warrant investment.
Nevertheless, the fears, and especially the prospect of a new and lucrative market, set pharmaceutical firms scrambling to develop Ebola-related products, while health officials lamented that nothing had been done beforehand.
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