Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

Open capital accounts may be replaced not by whimsical ad hoc interventions that heighten uncertainty and weaken confidence, but rather by predictable rules based constraints on financial capital flows.

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

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

Global Capital Rules

Being of the opinion that the adoption of uniform rules governing the assignment of receivables would promote the availability of capital and credit at more affordable rates and thus facilitate the development of international trade,

Initial capital

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.

Moreover, in October, the IMF is set to release official rules of the road for the use of capital account regulations.

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.

The Siren Song of Capital Controls

Investment and private flows

(o) Working Capital Fund

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.

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.

The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.

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.

There has been commendable progress on the Basel 3 capital requirements for banks, with 25 of 27 Basel Committee members having issued final rules.

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

Moreover, Li has called upon the banking sector to reinvigorate idle capital and allocate incremental capital more effectively. And the State Council recently published Guidelines for the Structural Adjustment, Transformation, and Upgrading of the Financially Supported Economy, which outlines ten key measures for revitalizing the capital stock.