Corporate Short-Termism in the Fiscal Cliff’s Shadow
Are hyperactive equities markets, particularly in the US and the UK, pushing large corporations to focus disproportionately on short-term financial results at the expense of long-term investments in their countries’ economies? Perhaps, but corporate time horizons may have shortened for other reasons – not all of them entirely bad.
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CAMBRIDGE – Economic trends are sometimes more closely related to one another than news reports make them seem. For example, one regularly encounters reports of governments’ financial troubles, like the “fiscal cliff” in the United States and the debt crisis in Europe. And much attention has been devoted, often in nearby opinion pieces, to the view that hyperactive equities markets, particularly in the US and the United Kingdom, push large corporations to focus disproportionately on short-term financial results at the expense of long-term investments in their countries’ economies.