Use more equity, and equity becomes less leveraged and less risky, which causes investors to demand lower returns to hold it, and again the overall financing cost remains the same.

Similarly, too big to fail banks would not care about the failure risk associated with debt financing.

Use more cheap debt, and equity becomes riskier and costlier, keeping overall financing costs the same.

With time, they could leverage retained earnings, increasing their lending potential without additional paid in capital.

But, again, it is unclear why they should prefer short term debt.

Bank Islam was set up with an initial authorized capital of RM 500 million and paid in capital of RM 79.9 million the bank has gradually increased its authorized and paid in capital to RM 2 billion and RM 563 million respectively.

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.

Initial capital

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

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.

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.

If developing countries allocate only 1 of their foreign exchange reserves to the paid in capital of regional and sub regional institutions, this would amount to 50 billion at current levels of reserves.

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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

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.

Participating in these write offs would put huge strain on the Eurosystem (the ECB and the central banks of the eurozone member states), which has only around 500 billion in equity capital.

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

After all, if bankers were trying to benefit, would they not issue long term debt, for which the default risk, and the gain from the implicit government guarantee, is high?

Europe s Chimerical Capital Markets Union

Bank Regulation s Capital Mistake

Overexpenditure of small capitalization fees

Encouraging private capital flows and remittances

Advances from the Working Capital Fund

Political capital means the capital that will improve or enhance the NGOs status, possession or access in the existing political system.

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

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

Talent versus Capital in the Twenty First Century

What's the capital structure up until this point?

Common Sense on Capital Controls

The United States is emphasizing higher capital requirements.