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America's legal system makes sure that firms that produce a defective, and particularly an unsafe product, are held liable for the consequences.
Firms are in a far better position than consumers to assess the safety of their product; we all benefit knowing that our legal system has provided corporations with incentives to pay attention to the safety of what they produce.
Similarly, environmental laws make firms liable for their toxic wastes, and many countries, including the US, have enshrined the principle that "polluters pay," that is, companies must pay for the damage they cause.
Dismantling these bloated and inefficient firms would thus amount to political suicide.
And, by boosting the ability of the US and Europe to set global business standards, German firms’ international competitiveness would rise.
A territorial system for taxing US firms’ foreign subsidiaries.
Not surprisingly, US firms choose to keep their profits abroad.
In Peru, some of our banks have worked with international freight forwarders to connect remote villages and small businesses to export markets through national postal services, turning more than 300 small firms into exporters, most for the first time.
This demand suggests that the US should subsidize the flow of technology to India and China from US firms holding patents, which is highly impractical.
The result will look familiar to aficionados of Japan’s banking crisis: zombie banks lending to zombie firms, which apply artificial pressure on viable firms, stifling their growth.
Drug companies often lament that the firms from which they are sourcing innovations do not perform clinical trials to their specifications, forcing them to repeat the work.
The regime also requires firms to file at least three online tax returns per month (37 per year) into the GST Network (GSTN), the GST’s formidable technical backbone.
Today, enterprising firms offer, for a fee, to tell you about your genes.
Examples of highly successful emerging-economy firms include the Chinese giants Alibaba and Tencent.
In the 18 high-performing emerging economies, only 45% of firms that were in the top quintile, in terms of profit generation, in 2001-2005 were still there a decade later in 2011-2015.
From 1995 to 2016, large publicly listed companies in the fastest-growing emerging economies expanded their annual net income 2-5 percentage points faster than firms in other emerging and high-income economies.
Moreover, they fuel productivity gains by investing in assets, research and development, and job training at a higher rate than small and medium-size firms, though the latter are also essential elements of successful countries’ business ecosystems.
As Chinese manufacturing moved up the value chain, firms increasingly replaced workers with machines embodying the latest technologies.
New machines were available, but firms were not prepared to use them.
To do so required a change in work practices and in the way firms were run.
Many European firms have complex ownership structures, with large shareholders whose interests often conflict with those of the company - hardly the best way to take sound business decisions.
An engaging paper by the World Bank economists Leora Klapper and Inessa Love shows that one major consequence of the financial crisis has been entrepreneurs’ reluctance to start new firms.
Countries were told to follow the American model, use American auditing firms, bring in American entrepreneurs to teach them how to run their companies.
Arthur Levitt, the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recognized the conflict: as many within the auditing firms focus on their own short-term interests, the integrity of the audits could be compromised.
But the auditing firms and their corporate clients - not surprisingly, given the cabal that developed - roundly attacked his proposal for separating consulting from auditing.
Its auditors claim that its central practices were within the law; that thousands of firms do the same.
Large firms are awash with cash, and lowering interest rates slightly won’t make much difference to them.
And lowering the rates that government pays has not translated into correspondingly lower interest rates for the many small firms struggling for financing.
Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers’ bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment.
UK-based services providers, notably financial firms, will lose the “passporting” privileges that allow them to operate freely within the EU.
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