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With Chinese steel and cement firms suffering from overcapacity, Chinese construction firms will profit from the new investment.
But, whereas US antitrust law rightly focuses on whether consumers are being harmed, EU competition authorities also consider whether rival firms have lost out – including old-fashioned shopping portals, such as Ladenzeile.de,
And there have been conspicuous cases of industrial espionage that allegedly involve Chinese companies (or perhaps some branch of the Chinese government) stealing trade secrets from firms with operations in the US.
China’s insistence on technology transfer increases the short-term cost of doing business (for US and other foreign direct investors) and creates the threat of future competition from Chinese firms.
And Greek banks and firms lose their creditworthiness alongside their government if markets perceive the latter to be insolvent.
A populist, twice president, he frowned on foreign investment, favored small firms, wanted large ones nationalized, and disparaged entrepreneurship.
China, for example, has managed to integrate itself into the global economy because its firms learned how to operate and compete within the framework established by the World Trade Organization.
If this commitment is to be credible, however, China must follow up by creating a level playing field for market competition among foreign companies, private Chinese firms, and SOEs.
In the past, local-level experimentation and innovation have proved integral to China’s progress, with competition among provinces, cities, and firms often helping the country to break out of bureaucratic and structural logjams.
In other words, a central bank’s primary responsibility is not to preserve the health of the firms that make up the banking sector, but rather to maintain the robust functioning of the economy as a whole.
In 2008, PetroChina, ExxonMobil, General Electric, China Mobile, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China were among the firms with the highest market capitalization.
The German system of vocational training has matched the skills of the country’s workforce to the needs of its firms, contributing to low youth unemployment.
The final component of the agreement is temporary acceleration of tax depreciation, allowing firms in 2011 to write off 100% of capital investment immediately, in contrast to the current rule, which stipulates a 50% immediate write-off, followed by depreciation of the remaining 50% over the statutory life of the equipment.
She expects that €4.8 billion in EU grants would leverage at least €66 billion in investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America by financial institutions and private firms.
The effect will be to increase the number of bankable projects in which both local businesses and international firms can invest.
Similarly, we might see new Russian-built civilian aircraft entering the global market in partnership with international firms, especially those that can work with Russian companies on advanced ICT avionics.
If illicit deals are what it takes to gain access to the resources and markets they needed, private firms have been more than willing to strike them, offering cash or other payments to officials who bent or broke rules on their behalf.
Such arrangements facilitated the entry of hundreds of thousands of growth-enhancing private firms into the market in the late 1990s.
On anti-trust issues, the size and attractiveness of the European market has meant that American firms seeking to merge have had to gain approval from the European Commission as well as the US Justice Department.
For example, firms in China’s export-dependent coastal regions have been burdened by renminbi appreciation since 2004.
And restrictive labor laws have indeed discouraged many firms from hiring new workers.
Otherwise, they compete to become bureaucrats at the most influential ministries – for example, finance, economy, or foreign affairs – or they try to get on the fast track to the top of elite firms like Toyota or Sony.
From Siemens’ green heating and air conditioning systems to Unilever’s “equal pay for equal work” policy, multinational firms operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are embracing sustainability and equality as viable business models.
Trade barriers erected by foreign governments reduce the ability of US firms to obtain the real income benefits from exporting products made in America.
Non-tariff barriers to US exports clearly hurt US firms without doing anything to help US households.
The same is true of forced technology transfers, although the Chinese position is that American firms that want to operate in China voluntarily agree to transfer technology in exchange for the right to produce and sell in China.
Dumping – selling products at prices that are lower than the cost of production – clearly helps American consumers, even though it hurts American firms.
But that is not different from a technological development that allows some US firms to produce more cheaply, thus helping American consumers and hurting other US producers.
Looking ahead, the US government should focus on combating foreign governments’ trade policies – such as technology theft, non-tariff barriers to US exports, and forced technology transfers – that hurt American firms without any offsetting benefits to American consumers.
Another factor that will shape the process of technological upgrading in developing countries is global firms’ willingness to invest.
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