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Such a strategy could harness the goodwill and enterprise of the 57 million US citizens who have roots south of the Rio Grande, including the 3.3 million US Hispanic-owned firms, many of which are eager to expand overseas.
For example, value-added tax is designed to encourage firms to procure invoices for their inputs in order to reduce their own tax outlays.
In Italy, expenditures for home improvements have been partly deductible for the past ten years, mainly to improve tax compliance by firms in the housing sector.
While econometric studies are not available, raw data show an increase in reported income and in the number of firms and official workers.
An example of horizontal subsidiarity is the internal European market, which created a new kind of economic freedom and increased competition between firms because they are no longer protected by national governments.
If something like this under-reporting of reinvested earnings or other balance-of-payments credits has gone on in the past, it may still be going on today – especially with US firms becoming aggressive about arbitraging corporate income tax.
Now it faces even bigger fines – perhaps exceeding $10 billion – for mortgage activities, mostly by two of the financial firms, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, that it bought up during the financial crisis.
During the crisis, financiers rightly pointed out that JPM and several other major firms were islands of stability in the financial storm.
But the costs must be borne by everyone, including firms that are not rescued – probably because they operate more efficiently – and are put at a competitive disadvantage as a result.
Financial liberalization, too, will be deepened, which will help startups and private firms most of all.
Since 1998, the country’s Competition Act has prohibited any company controlling at least 45% of the market from excluding other firms or seeking to exercise control over pricing.
Russia’s state capitalism is different from a planned economy, because government-owned companies are supposed to compete in the marketplace and act similarly to private firms.
These and similar phrases have been common currency among American legislators, regulators, and financial firms for decades.
That absence of accountability, in turn, has contributed to the vertiginous rise in senior executives’ compensation and, in financial firms, to a shift away from shareholder returns and towards large payouts to insiders.
Indeed, HFT firms talk of a “race to zero,” the point at which trading takes place at close to the speed of light.
Key constituencies for political and economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe have been private small and medium-size firms and younger age cohorts.
And certain types of shareholder activism have bred short-termism on the part of firms.
Firms and workers would need to adjust as reform forces some industries to downsize or close and allows others to expand.
Just as U.S. firms go next door to Mexico, German firms head for the immediate neighborhood to the East.
Some of the losers have the means to defend their interests: purged officials, companies, and industries that face new regulatory scrutiny, as well as firms forced out of business, have well-placed friends within China’s enormous bureaucracy.
Moreover, free-trade zones bring greater competition, including from foreign firms, which raises risks of increased unemployment and capital flight.
One problem is that the public’s appetite for a bailout of the unregulated and hemorrhaging “shadow” financial system, consisting of institutions like hedge funds and private equity firms, is rightly small, yet it too can serve to hold back bank lending if a large proportion of the distressed assets are held in weak institutions there.
No matter how much politicians blame others, growing US imports mean greater reliance on international markets, and some China factor in America's investment portfolio is needed to compete against European and Japanese firms.
Peter Shelakhaev, a senior Russian official who leads the government’s Far East Investment and Export Agency, has indicated that there are legal hurdles to establishing such a framework, and that Japanese firms doing business on the Kurils would have to pay taxes to Russia.
China must take action to curb overinvestment by SOEs, cutting off such firms’ access to subsidized credit and forcing them to pay much higher dividends to the government.
LearnUp, a San Francisco startup that has attracted funding from some of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, establishes partnerships with employers to offer online training modules that connect job seekers to specific jobs, primarily entry-level positions that do not require college degrees.
The central government has given a "green light" to the sale of small SOEs run by local governments (counties and cities), which can be sold to private owners, individual, corporate, or foreign investors, as well as workers in the firms themselves.
Although such restructuring so far often takes the form of mergers and bankruptcy, a great many SOEs have been converted into some kind of share-holding corporations, with the majority of shares held by workers in the firms.
The major achievement of China's 17 years of institutional reform and economic growth has been the growth of a dynamic non-state sector consisting of private firms, self-employed businesses, corporate joint-ventures with foreign capital, and community owned rural enterprises.
Resistance to reform could for a time be justified, so long as: 1 firms in the state sector retained a profitable position in a region's economy; 2. the mobility of state employees remained low; and 3, the non-state sector was not strong enough in both financial terms and entrepreneurial capability to take over the vast state sector.
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