Overissue

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Overissue

An excess of issued shares over authorized shares.

Overissue

A situation in which a company issues more shares than it has authorized shares.

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An individual bank can ascertain whether it has overissued or underissued liabilities, which the public uses as money, because it has access to the same means of economic calculation available to any private firm supplying a good or service: profit and loss accounting.

What you don't know can hurt you: Knowledge problems in monetary policy

On the contrary, such a loan-created money stock can, as long as nominal transactions and thus the public's demand for transaction balances remains momentarily unchanged, indeed be redundant, or overissued. Thus equation (3) says that because at prevailing prices P and real output Q the public's demand for money [M.sub.D] as expressed by the equation [M.sub.D] = kPQ has not yet changed, the new money dM/dt created by loan constitutes an excess supply of money X.

Knut Wicksell and Gustav Cassel on the cumulative process and the price-stabilizing policy rule

On November 7, 1945, just three months after Japan surrendered, the authorities had adopted a special deposit program to absorb Japanese notes that had been overissued under the Japanese government.

Multiple Regime Shifts and Multiple Ends of the Taiwanese Hyperinflation, 1945-1953

1877) (offering a brief exposition of overissued and watered stock and of directors' liability for fraud); FIELD, TREATISE, supra note 2, at 206-09, 246-47 (2d ed.

A Treatise on the Law of Stock and Stockholders, as Applicable to Railroad, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Commercial, Business, Turnpike, Bridge, Canal, and Other Private Corporations