But this vigorous attempt to reduce interest rates is distorting capital allocation.

If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.

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

Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

As a result, market oriented interest rate reform is now needed to help optimize capital allocation and support the development of China s financial market, thereby laying the groundwork for future capital account and exchange rate liberalization.

Initial capital

Keeping interest rates low discouraged capital inflows and encouraged asset price inflation.

For emerging markets, the best way forward is to correct the incentives for interest rate arbitrage at the source of capital flows.

The bankers retort that they must pay a higher return on any additional equity that they issue, so that more equity would increase their cost of capital, forcing them to raise interest rates on the loans they make, which would reduce economic activity.

The problem? An invasion of short term capital flows fleeing the slow growth, low interest rate advanced countries.

Interest rate liberalization together with other financial reforms would help to improve the efficiency of capital allocation and to optimize the economic structure.

Surviving the Great Capital Flood

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

Will the government liberalize interest rates or loosen capital controls? How will the fiscal system be revamped?

Interest rates on Russia s bonds have risen by 2 3 percentage points, and many Russian creditors no longer have access to international capital markets.

This saved Europe from overly large external imbalances. Now, without exchange rate risk, interest rate spreads based on debtor countries credit ratings are the only remaining defense against excessive capital movements and the resulting external imbalances.

The Art of Capital Flight

Damming Capital

The Capital Flow Conundrum

Capital flows and remittances

E. Financial capital and resilience

Governments do not tax the return on equity less than debt interest, and lenders do not sufficiently honor the benefits of high equity with lower interest rates, owing to a lack of information about the true repayment probability.

Advances from the Working Capital Fund

The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co financing rate would apply to interest payments.

Private capital, which accounts for more than 90 of capital flows to developing economies, will remain the dominant source of long term financing.

The Siren Song of Capital Controls

Investment and private flows

(o) Working Capital Fund

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

But capital is flowing in from other countries as well.

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.

And the low interest rates needed to maintain full employment would lead in time to the euthanasia of the rentier of those who live off the rents of capital.

Thus, the IMF s recommendation to use capital controls only after exhausting interest rate adjustment, reserve accumulation, and prudential regulation is out of step with the profession.

But the rise would most likely be offset by capital outflows, as looser capital controls would enable savers to escape the financial crisis.

Despite the theoretical possibility of capital being sent over vast distances to other parts of the world, much capital remained local.

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Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism

The reason lies in capital movements.

Finally, there is the path of public capital.

Raising capital is expensive.

The Temptation of China s Capital Account

List of tables

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

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

This capital has to be invested somewhere.