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Cities and countries would be ill-advised to focus on a few “clusters” and consolidate the
value
chains in their location, as is so often recommended.
Instead, they should worry about being a node in many different
value
chains, which requires finding other industries that can use their existing capabilities if they were somehow expanded and adjusted to new needs.
The expanding scope of patents increases their
value
as a tool to promote creativity.
The ETF was a key innovation that made it possible for investors to hold an instrument that effectively tracked the
value
of a specified portfolio, such as the S&P index, with low trading costs.
In Europe, particularly Germany, a mortgage-backed security ( Pfandbrief ) is an ultra-safe asset, as normally banks finance no more than 60% of a house’s
value.
US banks finance up to 100% of a house’s value, sometimes even more, and the sub-prime market even includes loans to people without jobs and income.
When the
value
of non-cash government benefits, like Medicaid, Medicare, and Food Stamps, are also included, total transfers become extremely progressive.
But the
value
of the bilateral relationship extends far beyond the war on terror.
Emerging economies’ scale is growing, and their positioning on the global
value
chain is shifting rapidly.
The figure below shows monopoly wealth as a percentage of total stock-market
value
between 1985 and 2015.
But as the IT industry developed, monopoly wealth rose dramatically; it reached 82% of total stock-market
value
– equivalent to some $23.8 trillion – in December 2015.
If poor countries want to get rich, they should stop exporting their resources in raw form and concentrate on adding
value
to them.
Otherwise, rich countries will get the lion’s share of the
value
and all of the good jobs.
By contrast, a traditional development economist would argue that it should not export wood; instead, it should add
value
by transforming the wood into paper or furniture – something that Finland also does.
The moral of the story is that adding
value
to raw materials is one path to diversification, but not necessarily a long or fruitful one.
What the Finnish story indicates is that the more promising paths to development do not involve adding
value
to your raw materials – but adding capabilities to your capabilities.
Critics think that pegging the currency below its real
value
is part of a deliberate strategy to keep growth rolling, thereby avoiding the tricky politics of growing unemployment in a system that has no institutionalized channels for expressing popular grievances.
Third, dollar-funded carry trades are pushing the US dollar sharply down, and there is an inverse relation between the
value
of the dollar and the dollar price of commodities: the lower the dollar, the higher the dollar price of oil, energy, and other commodities – including gold.
But, since gold has no intrinsic value, there are significant risks of a downward correction.
Hence, the receding power of the West means a tougher fight to uphold the relevance of key components of its
value
system, such as democracy and universal rights.
In this fast-moving cycle, housing and fixed-asset prices (as well as the currency’s value) will increase faster than productivity growth in the tradable sector, owing to supply constraints.
That increase may simply reflect the increase in the
value
of China’s dollar-denominated reserve assets.
If you play Russian roulette with one or two bullets in the barrel, you are more likely to survive than not, but the stakes would need to be astonishingly high – or the
value
you place on your life inordinately low – for this to seem a wise gamble.
China is worried that its more than $1 trillion investment in US Treasury securities will not hold its
value.
Instead of neglecting those assets, as most governments do today, countries should be using them to generate
value.
But Boston’s total real-estate assets are actually worth almost 40 times their book value, because they are reported at their historic cost.
Public real estate is often worth around 100% of the GDP of a given jurisdiction, the equivalent of a quarter of the total
value
of the real-estate market.
The unique
value
of the European order consists in its recognition and protection of the right of small and vulnerable states to make meaningful choices about their future.
To be sure, basic models – for example, theories of monopoly and simple oligopoly, the theory of public goods, or simple asymmetric-information theory – have some educational
value.
So, if two platforms that appear to be performing similar services are complementary – for example, because one platform connects consumers with a set of users that helps them to
value
another set of users more highly – market entry can be bad for consumers.
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