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The law must contain specific provisions regarding such matters in order to ensure successful listing of restructuring firms.
Small and medium-sized firms – the most important sources of innovation and employment growth – will feel the effects most acutely.
As the economic historian Alexander Field has shown, many firms took the “down time” created by weak demand for their products to reorganize their operations.
More firms established modern personnel-management departments and in-house research labs.
There are hints of firms responding similarly now.
Firms in both manufacturing and services are adopting new information technologies – today’s analog to small electric motors – to optimize supply chains and quality-management systems.
Small, innovative firms need enhanced access to credit.
Firms need stronger tax incentives for R&D.
Is Bankers’ Pay Really the Root of Financial Evil?CHICAGO – Compensation practices at financial firms stand accused of being a primary cause of the recent global financial crisis.
They start in 2006 because that seems to be the point at which some financial firms took on the risky positions that led to the crisis.
At the same time, they held an average of $88 million in their firms’ equity and options.
So, if pay and front-loaded incentives were not the reason that banks’ CEOs got their firms (and the world) into a mess, what was?
Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.
But if you think that the $2 trillion figure is already huge, the latest estimates by my research consultancy RGE Monitor suggest that total losses on loans made by US financial firms and the fall in the market value of the assets they hold (things like mortgage-backed securities) will peak at about $3.6 trillion.
As a result, large non-financial firms have become a pervasive source of rising income inequality.
Much of the existing research focuses on the US economy, where some studies have measured the growth of dominant firms’ market power through the steep upward trend in mark-up pricing; and others have examined the role of proliferating information technologies in the accumulation of “surplus wealth.”
For the top 100 firms, that share increased from 16% to 40%, on average.
The same multi-country database also confirms that market concentration has risen significantly over the past two decades, particularly among the top 100 firms.
In 2015, the top 100 firms had a combined market capitalization (the total value of a company’s outstanding shares) that was 7,000 times that of the bottom 2,000 firms.
Between 1995 and 2015, the top 100 firms increased their market capitalization fourfold, but did not even double their share of employment.
Most firms operate in a simpler environment with fewer variables than central banks.
Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current-account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency.
Moreover, Irish GNP (the income accruing to its nationals, as distinct from foreign firms operating in Ireland) continues to shrink.
These links were not confined to credit relations, but also extended to direct and indirect shareholdings by the banks and their representation on the supervisory boards of firms.
Combining their role as creditors and corporate monitors, banks developed stable relationships with industrial firms which substantially added to long-term corporate stability.
As the process of disintermediation adds to the influence of institutional investors other than banks, these nonbank investors are likely to become dominant shareholders and demand a larger say on the supervisory boards of German firms.
Foreign firms are also rushing to take advantage of Europe’s tech talent.
While European tech entrepreneurs find it as easy as their American counterparts to raise startup funds, US firms enjoy 14 times more later-stage capital.
Europe’s “single digital market,” they argue, currently amounts “to a jumble of outdated, corporatist, counterproductive industrial policies that favor producers over consumers, big companies over small, traditional incumbents over digital startups, and EU firms over foreign ones.”
It would also encourage Chinese firms to increase their investments in European ports and railways.
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