2. Corporate strategies for seizing market opportunities

In October, Rosneft issued 11 billion worth of ruble denominated bonds (an unparalleled amount for the Russian market, equivalent to 70 of the total value of corporate bonds issued in Russia this year). The coupon on these bonds was actually 1.5 percentage points below sovereign bonds of similar maturity, which is also unusual, especially given that Rosneft currently is subject to Western sanctions.

This reaching for yield has driven up the prices of all long term bonds to unsustainable levels, narrowed credit spreads on corporate bonds and emerging market debt, raised the relative prices of commercial real estate, and pushed up the stock market s price earnings ratio to more than 25 higher than its historic average.

In response, central banks should purchase government bonds for cash in as large a quantity as needed to push their prices up as high as possible. Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

The bonds carry market interest, but the State guarantee is equivalent to a subsidy.

Capital Market Commission's Committee on Corporate Governance in Greece (1999). Principles on Corporate Governance in Greece Recommendations for Its Competitive Transformation (Mertzanis Report).

A second cause lies in the fact that fixed income assets such as government, corporate, and emerging market bonds are not traded in more liquid exchanges, as stocks are. Instead, they are traded mostly over the counter in illiquid markets.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable. But this is because government bonds are purchased mostly by domestic organizations and households.

In 1997, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela retired 10.4 billion of collateralized Brady bonds through swaps against uncollateralized long term bonds, effected at a discount based on secondary market prices.

It is recognized that there is an increase in the number of corporate governance accolades, awards, ratings, rankings and even corporate governance stock market indexes where constituents are selected on the basis of good practices in corporate governance.

Adding 400 billion would increase the pool substantially. Together with asset backed securities, covered bonds, and corporate bonds, 1 trillion of assets the threshold widely thought to make quantitative easing by the ECB credible would be available for purchase.

Of the roughly 200 trillion in global financial assets today, almost three quarters are in some kind of debt instrument, including bank loans, corporate bonds, and government securities. The derivatives market certainly helps spread risk more widely than this superficial calculation implies, but the basic point stands.

What the market is saying is not that the economy has too much debt, but that it has too much private debt, which is why prices of corporate bonds are low and firms find financing expensive. The market is also saying clearly and repeatedly that the economy has too little public US government debt, which is why everyone wants to hold it.

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds. Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds. Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Comparative Study of Corporate Governance Codes to the European Union and Member States. European Commission, Internal Market Directorate General.

They might choose to do so, but mostly they just roll them over by issuing new bonds. The longer the bonds maturities, the less frequently governments have to come to the market for new loans.

The Asian bond market and Asian bonds are thus mechanisms for financing for development that also promote greater regional economic stability.

Issues that could be addressed in this connection concern further corporate involvement in overcoming information market failures with regard to investment and business opportunities in developing countries and corporate participation in risk mitigation schemes.

The low interest rate on long term Treasury bonds has also boosted demand for other long term assets that promise higher yields, including equities, farm land, high yield corporate bonds, gold, and real estate. When interest rates rise, the prices of those assets will fall as well.

Securities laws require that issuers of corporate bonds spell out all possible risks. By contrast, governments pay no penalties for outrageous misrepresentation or fraudulent accounting, as the Greek debacle shows.

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For instance, the LCS Group (IT) has invested in the United Kingdom as part of its corporate expansion and market access strategy.

Microeconomic factors for investment site selection included the corporate tax structure, trade and customs regimes, the labour market situation and financial infrastructure.

In the eurozone, lower long term rates for government bonds are thus unlikely to improve the corporate sector s financing conditions and boost investment demand. By contrast, in the US, a much larger proportion of investment is financed by issuing bonds, which can have a longer maturity than bank loans.

Promoting a pan European private placement market might help, as would aligning standards for covered bonds. But both strategies would face serious legal obstacles.

32 William Lazonick, Public and corporate governance the institutional foundations of the market economy , paper presented to the Economic Commission for Europe (2001).

23. Needs previously mentioned were elaborated, namely, to maintain and increase market share, demonstrate compliance with national environmental legislation and enhance corporate image.

110. A market oriented housing bonds system was introduced in November 1989, its purpose being to change the financing of the general housing loan system.

The seller receives the housing bonds and can use them for his next property purchase, keep them as savings or sell them on the market.

The ECB has already attempted to ease credit conditions by purchasing high quality asset backed securities. It has bought securities backed by cash flows from private sector mortgages, so called covered bonds, and it has floated the idea of buying corporate bonds and multilateral securities issued by the European Investment Bank.

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Having more than doubled since its crisis induced trough, the US equity market not to mention its amply rewarded upper income shareholders has been the principal beneficiary of the Fed s unconventional policy gambit. The same is true for a variety of once risky fixed income instruments from high yield corporate junk bonds to sovereign debt in crisis torn Europe.

Pushing up asset prices and pushing down the euro s exchange rate will require the ECB to buy bonds on the secondary market not the crisis countries bonds per se, but those of all eurozone members. In other words, it will require quantitative easing.

The panellist from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) stressed the need to view corporate responsibility initiatives in their specific market contexts.

Lazonick, William (2001). Public and corporate governance the institutional foundations of the market economy. Paper presented to the Economic Commission for Europe, May 2001.

Grundsatzkommission Corporate Governance (German Panel for Corporate Governance) (2000). Corporate Governance Rules for German Quoted Companies.

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Until there is a market for such bonds, we cannot know what the price will be. But we can expect that the market for long term GDP linked bonds from countries like Argentina, where the future of the economy is uncertain, would be volatile, as investors adjust their expectations of future GDP growth up and down in response to new information.

There is virtually no history of the price behavior of longevity bonds, so discovering their buyers and sellers, and the prices that clear the market, will take some time. But longevity bonds, while only experimental today, will eventually become vitally important to the world economy.

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