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Japan’s business culture – centered on highly successful kaisha (firms) – is known to be very demanding, to the point that karoshi, or death from overwork or job-related exhaustion, is not uncommon.
Government offices, as well as firms, can choose to allow their employees to arrive at work and leave an hour earlier than normal during the summer months.
In China’s case, it certainly allowed domestically based firms to export more, but only because they were selling at below-cost prices, thus incurring losses.
To compensate, firms have been raising prices, fueling inflation.
Rather than improving services and living conditions in areas where it could have helped consolidate peace, the government, at America’s behest, will allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to pay investment banks, accounting firms, and legal advisors who assist with that refinancing.
Leading “impact investment” firms such as DBL Partners, Omidyar Network, and Bridges already provide this kind of comprehensive reporting on their own investments; and the Impact Management Project, a corporate consortium, can offer additional guidance.
That is why I recently proposed a measure to provide firms with more flexibility on mark-to-market requirements and to facilitate asset transfer from the trading book to the banking book.
Because of tax advantages and inappropriate accounting practices firms richly rewarded executives with stock options.
Overinflated prices lead firms to overinvest.
By the same token, auditing firms that make more money from consulting than from providing auditing services have a conflict of interest: they have (at least in the short run) an incentive to go easy on their clients, or even, as consultants, to help their clients think of ways - "within the rules," of course -- that improve the appearance of profits.
If there are large dollar debts outstanding, and many firms find themselves in the same position, the additional demand for dollars will cause the exchange rate to depreciate even further.
Since the subprime crisis, ultra-low interest rates in the rich world have caused emerging-market firms to borrow like never before.
Some of the debt does not even appear in the official statistics of borrowing countries, because it was often taken on not by domestically-based firms, but by their offshore subsidiaries.
Typically, the public sector must enter into contractual agreements with private firms not only to build the infrastructure, but also to operate it as a regulated monopoly or on a concession basis.
As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to “cheat” by using substitutes for high-price inputs.
Perhaps skilled workers will try to band together to get governments to pass laws and regulations making it more difficult for firms to make their jobs obsolete.
Alternatively, if the South Korean authorities decide to allocate quotas among firms, they will probably have to benchmark each firm’s allotment to its share of exports in the 2015-2017 period.
When this method of administration has been used elsewhere around the world, it has resulted in firms asserting dubious capabilities without regard to quality, price, or the timeliness of deliveries.
In this new age of protectionism, US firms that receive tariff exemptions and South Korean firms that receive quota entitlements will be gaining valuable property rights at little cost.
That will give firms all the more reason to lobby and otherwise pressure licensing authorities, further complicating the process, and raising the possibility of corruption.
After all, Europe has almost as many billion-euro Internet firms as the US.
The wisest choice for Europe would be to ensure that many more successful Internet firms emerge, by creating the best possible conditions for digital innovators.
Still, one has to worry that the big five tech firms have become so dominant, so profitable, and so encompassing that it has become very difficult for startups to challenge them, thereby stifling innovation.
Big Tech firms might argue that all the capital they pour into new products and services is pushing innovation.
The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation now requires firms to allow consumers – albeit only those in the EU – to port their data.
For example, Congress currently gives Internet-based firms a veritable free pass in promulgating fake news.
Like Trump, German politicians and lobby groups claim that domestic firms need a tax cut in order to stay competitive internationally.
It should also design provisions to support small and medium-size enterprises, while fighting tax evasion among big firms.
The first is that governments do not have the information needed to make the right choices about which firms or industries to support.
The second is that once governments are in the business of supporting a particular industry, they become vulnerable to rent-seeking and political manipulation by well-connected firms and lobbyists.
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