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On paper, the recipe for success looks straightforward: economic policy should aim at reducing the gap between larger companies, whose performance matches those of their German or French counterparts, and smaller firms, where productivity is half as high.
Small companies everywhere are less productive than large firms – after all, growth is a selection process – but Italy’s peculiarity is that such companies are both much less efficient and much more numerous.
Instead, they emphasize family management of the smaller firms and a tendency to select and reward people on the basis or loyalty rather than merit.
The anemic labor standards enshrined in this agreement encourage firms to compete by taking the low road, a route that puts them on a collision course with China’s rock-bottom wages.
They could just as easily take the high road: much evidence indicates that workers who are rewarded rather than victimized can contribute to greater competitiveness for firms in the long run.
Financial liberalization is not about foreign firms drilling holes in China’s economy.
But to use that expertise – the most valuable asset a globally competitive financial institution has – investors need to control the operations of firms in which they have a stake.
By law in the US, new approaches superseding established bankruptcy procedures dictate the demise rather than the rescue of failing firms, whether by sale, merger, or liquidation.
With many firms in those sectors now relying on new loans to cover operating losses, large bad debts are inevitable.
Hesitant to leave a large imprint in their wake, some ministries have no budgets, and ministers are reluctant to sign deals with foreign firms.
For decades, Qaddafi personally reviewed every agreement worth more than $200 million and often chose which foreign firms would receive contracts.
Indeed, countries do not compete against each other in the way that firms do.
Thai import-export firms can bet on a run on the baht by accelerating their dollar receipts and delaying their dollar payouts.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as one of his first initiatives, proposed a ban on “golden parachutes” for departing managers of firms traded on the stock exchange, in order to halt the practice of taking huge severance payments without the consent of shareholders.
Sarkozy correctly assumed that managers of publicly-traded firms, much like politicians, are public figures who should be held to a minimum ethical standard of behavior.
Non-financial firms’ external debt totals $432 billion, with $128 billion due within a year (and $175 billion within two years).
It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.
But there is surprisingly deep inequality in firms’ productivity, which means that the size of the pie varies radically.
As a result, there are huge disparities among firms in terms of efficiency – and hence in the income they can distribute.
Today, production is carried out not just by individuals, or even by teams of people within firms, but also by teams of firms, or value chains.
An extraordinarily high proportion of the labor force - 12% - is officially classified as “sick” or “invalid” because putting a worker on disability is practically the only way Dutch employers have of ridding their firms of unwanted full-time employees.
Twenty years ago, when I founded Rakuten as an ambitious Internet and e-commerce startup, we were just like most Japanese firms – small, and dominated by mostly male Japanese talent.
When he does so by outsourcing to firms abroad that do things that would be illegal here – for example, prevent their workers from organizing and bargaining collectively – I may have a real gripe.
Likewise, the reduced labor costs and falling inflation caused by recession and austerity helped to boost Spanish firms’ competitiveness within the eurozone.
It can begin by creating greater opportunities for US firms – including from the nuclear industry – to invest in India’s economic success.
This means starting the new year by implementing reforms that require only administrative action, such as granting licenses to private banks, increasing competition by removing barriers to entry for private firms, liberalizing interest and exchange rates, and extending residency rights to migrant laborers in small cities and towns.
A far better idea is to force financial firms to issue much more equity (stock), as Stanford University’s Anat Admati has proposed.
The fundamental problem with FTTs is that they are distortionary; for example, by driving down stock prices, they make raising capital more expensive for firms.
In fact, far from viewing the current-account surplus as a policy problem, the German government sees it as a reflection of the underlying competitiveness of German firms.
By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future.
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