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Of those that survive, over a third have changed ownership, concentrating the industry into fewer hands.
The key to overcoming these challenges is for the Greek people to take ownership of the reforms, so that the public interest can prevail over vested interests.
In this effort, there must be no bail-in of depositors, which would have damaging social consequences, or Greek state ownership of the banks, which would entrench clientelism in the financial system.
It passed a law making it easy for politicians to ignore conflicts of interest, authored tendentious legislation on media ownership (Berlusconi controls much of Italy's media), and effectively got the Prime Minister off the hook on a series of criminal indictments.
Fiat controls one of Italy's great newspapers, Corriere della Sera , which may become more friendly to Berlusconi with an ownership change approved by him.
Foreign firms are now barred from majority ownership of banks and insurance companies.
Investor protection is important, of course, but as the Nobel laureate Eugene Fama put it, “the primary role of the capital market is allocation of ownership of the economy’s capital stock.”
They should begin, for example, by stressing that car ownership is not a human right.
Nor was the issue of land ownership resolved: only a few plots will be leased in some form.
Close partnership between business and government is in direct contrast to the western, particularly the American, model grounded in strong antitrust policy, competition, and private ownership.
If national pride demands eternal Polish ownership of Polish land, and thus scuttles membership in the EU, Poland will be condemned to a future as a kind of a gigantic museum of the peasantry.
Until the 18 th century, books were comparatively expensive; their ownership was limited largely to the propertied classes.
We can see this in the financial industry, where increased state ownership has led to a distinct danger of re-nationalization and re-fragmentation of financial markets.
But it hardly ever translates into local ownership.
Companies, investors, governments, and communities confront a series of critical barriers to increasing the food availability that the world needs: Local populations’ insecure land ownership; receding water tables, owing to unsustainable extraction rates; inefficient use of pollution-causing inputs like fertilizers and pesticides; the loss of vital ecosystems, affecting the resilience of food production; and certain areas’ inability to cope with extreme weather.
It would be understandable if emerging markets, having seen deep problems in the conduct of foreign banks, now insist on domestic ownership and control of financial institutions.
Other things being equal, cross-border lending fell less in countries with significant foreign-bank presence than in emerging markets where foreign ownership of banks was not dominant.
The US needs to struggle with the problem of how to redistribute income internally, especially given highly concentrated ownership of new ideas and technology.
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, is correct when she urges the close involvement of member states in the discussions, in order to give them a sense of ownership over whatever strategy emerges.
Weak Labor, Strong Securities MarketsA vital distinction between market economies is the degree to which ownership of large firms is separate from a firm's day-to-day management.
Separation of ownership from management and effective securities markets reinforce each other.
The formalistic civil-law systems that prevail in continental Europe supposedly provide inadequate protection, so ownership remains concentrated.
In particular, ownership separation in the wealthy continental European nations and the US can be linked with the role of labor inside the firm and within society.
Both considerations support concentrated ownership and work against securities markets.
Such societies should have fewer public firms, and narrower or no ownership separation.
The correlation with ownership separation is striking: a sample of the 20 largest firms in each country shows that, whereas 90% of the US companies have no shareholder with more than a 20% stake, none of the Italian, French, or German firms have such highly dispersed ownership.
The United Kingdom is in seventh place in terms of labor-market flexibility, but a higher proportion of its largest companies have widely dispersed ownership than sixth-place Switzerland-and double the share of fifth-place Denmark and fourth-place Australia.
But whatever measures of "political" qualities and ownership separation we use, the index of employment protection appears to be the best predictor of ownership separation in the wealthy West.
More fundamentally, creating the regulatory institutions conducive to ownership separation may be impossible unless a society's political orientation towards labor and capital is more favorable to capital.
Beyond promoting mixed ownership involving private capital, strengthening corporate governance, and facilitating commercial operations, the reforms promise to open up the energy, resources, and telecom industries to non-state investors.
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