As above, firm value is enhanced when, and if, the return on capital exceeds the cost of capital.

) In this context, the most useful measure of profitability is Return on capital (ROC).

Government educates and invests, increasing the supply and reducing the premium earned by skilled workers, and lowering the rate of return on physical capital.

But one would be wrong studies have consistently shown that the rate of return to capital has been more than 10 since the late 1990s.

Banks loaded up on the relatively high yield debt of countries like Greece because they had to set aside very little capital.

Brazil has been aggressive in terms of capital restrictions, twice increasing its tax on financial inflows.

In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.

Because interest rates must remain very low in developed countries at least for the next several years, there are now strong incentives to export capital to higher yielding emerging economies.

Initial capital

According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.

Thus, a higher proportion of debt in the firm's capital structure leads to higher ROE.

Moreover, Li has called upon the banking sector to reinvigorate idle capital and allocate incremental capital more effectively.

The United States is emphasizing higher capital requirements.

The Art of Capital Flight

Damming Capital

The Capital Flow Conundrum

Capital flows and remittances

E. Financial capital and resilience

The portion of capital inflows that is not re exported represents net capital inflows.

For example, thenet cash flow to total invested capital and WACC are appropriate when valuing a company based on the market value of all invested capital.

As China s demographic dividend disappears, its low end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.

The Siren Song of Capital Controls

Investment and private flows

(o) Working Capital Fund

One of them is a reserve requirement on cross border flows successfully implemented in Chile, Colombia, and elsewhere or, even better, on cross border liabilities. Taxes on inflows can play a similar role, as can minimum stay periods for capital inflows.

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Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism

The reason lies in capital movements.

Finally, there is the path of public capital.

Surviving the Great Capital Flood

Raising capital is expensive.

The Temptation of China s Capital Account

List of tables

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined.

Before World War II, venture capital investments (originally known as development capital ) were primarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families.

This is why equity capital held by financial institutions typically is more than twice as expensive as debt capital and why these institutions try to minimize its use.

Direct interventions, restrictions on short term capital inflows, capital gains taxes, and stabilizing prudential banking regulations will all have to be considered.

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

The advantage of equity capital is that it is loss absorbing, meaning that only after losses wipe out all of the equity do they need to be apportioned between creditors.

The taboo that has attached to capital controls has discouraged practical, policy oriented work that would help governments to manage capital flows directly.

For example, while US monetary policy intervention (yes, monetary policy is also intervention) has done little to boost domestic demand, it has spurred domestic capital to search for yield around the world.

Europe s Chimerical Capital Markets Union

Bank Regulation s Capital Mistake

Overexpenditure of small capitalization fees

Encouraging private capital flows and remittances