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Beyond government support, the chaebols’
ownership
and governance structure has contributed to their success.
Moreover, the chaebols’
ownership
is often opaque, with webs of cross-shareholdings allowing founding families to exercise controlling power, despite holding only a small portion of equity.
The Lee family has less than 5% direct
ownership
of Samsung Electronics, but holds a 31.1% stake in Samsung C&T, the group’s de facto holding company, which owns a 4.3% stake in Samsung Electronics and a 19.3% stake in Samsung Life Insurance.
This type of
ownership
structure can be particularly problematic during transfers of
ownership
to new generations.
If privatization displaces too many workers without compensation, a majority of citizens could come to see it as illegitimate, potentially undermining their support for private
ownership
of productive property.
Third-party ownership, in which a company installs and maintains solar panels, in exchange for either a set monthly rate or a fixed price per unit of power, has driven up adoption rates in California, financing more than two-thirds of new installations in 2012 and 2013.
Reflecting the importance of secure land
ownership
to the SDGs’ success, the World Bank Group is now working with developing countries to improve their land-tenure systems and expand the coverage of legally recognized and registered rights.
Moreover, in much of Europe, Jews had long been excluded from most of the established economy of land ownership, and from many other fields that were reserved for Christians.
In an expanding global economy, the supplier of the reserve currency is pushed to run current-account deficits – and hence toward a leveraged-growth model that systematically erodes its strength and independence as it becomes increasingly reliant on foreign capital and foreign asset
ownership.
Meanwhile, Labour leaders, who had also sought the Murdochs’ favor, have vowed to block News Corporation’s bid for full
ownership
of Britain’s largest pay-television broadcaster.
The right is both for and against Europe; for a market economy and for workers’ ownership; for a strong welfare state and lower taxes; for modernization of agriculture and the preservation of small family farms.
As a result, efforts to fight monopoly are lagging, and the next stage of reform – the transition to a “blended
ownership
system” – remains distant.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the “mixed
ownership
system” envisaged by the Third Plenary of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Until the central government is willing to yield its control over SOE management,
ownership
reforms are likely to spark only tepid interest from the private sector.
They complain bitterly about regulators’ “interference” with the free market, property rights, and the sacrosanct ideal of home
ownership.
And above all, the
ownership
and governance of key assets and resources are almost all in state hands.
Better management of China’s considerable public assets – which include $3.5-4 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves, substantial land holdings, and majority
ownership
of the state-owned enterprises that dominate the economy – would complement these efforts.
For a while, the US tried to question Brazil’s
ownership
by trying to force a discussion of the “internationalization” of the oceans and their mineral resources.
But the UN would have none of it, and Brazil’s
ownership
was recognized.
In Zimbabwe, colonial land
ownership
patterns that gave most of the viable farmland to white settlers are at least one root of the country's current crisis.
And the recent ill-conceived proposals of the French president on state
ownership
made things even worse in Berlin.
The best solution is private capital – from retained earnings, new entrants, new ownership, and new investment.
Zucman, for his part, favors a single global registry – a publicly accessible database detailing the
ownership
of financial instruments.
The middle classes take their cars for granted, while the world’s poor aspire to car
ownership
as a token and a tool of advancement.
More vigorous antitrust policies, or increased consumer
ownership
of data, could strengthen competition and, in the process, boost efficiency and improve income distribution.
It not only highlights the prevalence of financial secrecy worldwide, but also shows how hidden company
ownership
facilitates tax evasion, money laundering, corruption, and other crime.
An intriguing sidelight on the relationship between Congress and business is provided in a study by Ahmed Tahoun of the London School of Economics on “The role of stock
ownership
by US members of Congress on the market for political favors.”
Moreover, firms with more stock
ownership
by politicians tend to win more and bigger government contracts.
China’s main priority should be to strengthen its legal institutions to protect property rights, while reducing state
ownership
and control of resources and large enterprises.
Second, as we learned from the crisis, substantial domestic
ownership
of the banking sector is crucial, in part because multinational resolution mechanisms in cases of insolvency are largely non-existent.
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