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Effective deterrence and defense against possible long-range artillery barrages, missile attacks, infiltration, and WMD-related asymmetric forms of warfare are also essential.
It does not take into account the financial cycle, and thus produces excessively expansionary and asymmetric monetary policy.
Countries are increasingly fighting asymmetric wars against terrorist groups.
Multilateralism – long enabled by the same sort of asymmetric contribution, though typically proportionate to countries’ income and wealth – will also lose steam, as the trend toward bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements accelerates.
Governments must invest in transport and communication networks; counteract asymmetric information, externalities, and unequal bargaining power; moderate financial panics and recessions; and respond to popular demands for safety nets and social insurance.
That created a system of asymmetric incentives – also know as moral hazard – which encouraged ever greater credit expansion.
Second, today’s globalization is inherently asymmetric.
For Israel, the cease-fire with Hamas reflects its reluctance to become mired in another asymmetric war like the one it fought in Lebanon two summers ago, this time in the alleys of Gaza’s refugee camps.
Instead, Asia remains deeply scarred by unsettled disputes, periodic fits of nationalism, and contested borders, all of which tend to be amplified by apprehension stemming from the asymmetric rise of some of its powers.
The theory of asymmetric information provides much of the micro-foundations for modern macroeconomics.
Unless they abandon asymmetric adjustment (recessionary deflation), which concentrates all of the pain in the periphery, in favor of a more symmetrical approach (austerity and structural reforms on the periphery, combined with eurozone-wide reflation), the monetary union's slow-developing train wreck will accelerate as peripheral countries default and exit.
It is inconceivable that national policymakers, seeing to their countries’ own interests, would prevent these arrangements from mutating into permanent asymmetric transfer schemes.
Concerns about bankruptcy - that the high interest rates pushed by the IMF in East Asia would force firms into distress, even adversely effect the exchange rates while destroying economies and making countries less attractive to investors - derived from a theory of corporate finance, itself derived from theories of asymmetric information.
Those who make this claim seem to have in mind a model of a single state, which possesses two relevant features: limited fiscal sovereignty for regional and local governments and a substantial common budget from which regions hit by asymmetric shocks can receive transfers.
Instead, a great deal of flexibility, including within their labor markets, facilitated adjustment to asymmetric shocks.
Instead of looking at the wrong model – that of a single state – the EU and its member states should focus on the conditions required for the proper functioning of a currency union that has no common budget to compensate for asymmetric shocks.
In the language of economists, centrist politicians face a problem of asymmetric information.
Framing the challenge as a problem of asymmetric information also hints at a solution.
In a world of asymmetric threats, we should follow the US defense department’s field manual: in counterinsurgency, politics require primacy.
The Kyoto Protocol established a set of “common but differentiated responsibilities” that imply asymmetric roles for advanced and developing countries, with the obligations of developing countries evolving as they grow.
And a major reason is that it is still vulnerable to asymmetric boom-and-bust cycles.
But Britain needs the EU market more than the EU needs Britain’s, so the bargaining would be asymmetric.
Indeed, we recently agreed radical proposals to expand trade access – through asymmetric trade measures – to the EU market for the countries of the region.
If the adjustments are asymmetric – larger increases when prices fall, and smaller decreases when prices rise – this system would gradually raise the overall carbon tax, even as it follows a counter-cyclical pattern.
Asymmetric adjustment between debtor and creditor economies has also undermined growth.
Moreover, global deleveraging is asymmetric, with Latin American economies growing fast and advanced markets lagging – all of which may call for a real exchange-rate correction and thus justify revaluation of the region’s major currencies.
Indeed, the academic literature was chock-full of models of financial bubbles, asymmetric information, incentive distortions, self-fulfilling crises, and systemic risk.
The risks are asymmetric: if these forecasts are wrong, and there is a more robust recovery, then, of course, expenditures can be cut back and/or taxes increased.
Consider the hypothetical example of full trade liberalization in textiles, which would have greatly asymmetric effects between, say, Sweden, with hardly any textile industry, and Portugal, with a substantial one.
Globally, the asymmetric adjustment of creditor and debtor economies has exacerbated this recessionary and deflationary spiral.
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