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But with a fixed-quota arrangement, there would be no competition among South Korean steel exporters in the US market.
But by subjecting US manufacturers and the world to a system of tariffs, quotas, and exemptions, it will achieve the opposite effect: lower competition, higher prices, poorer service, and less innovation.
One suspects, however, that in many circumstances the intent is to nip potential competition in the bud.
Often, the authorities’ motive seems to be to give domestic industries a leg up in global competition.
Ironically, the pact even limits market competition to protect powerful special interests, undercutting the core principles of free trade.
For American drug companies, this agreement extends the time period during which brand-name pharmaceuticals have exclusive access to markets, postponing the entry of generic drugs and thus limiting competition.
In the US-China relationship, the RMB exchange rate has become a touchstone for broader anxieties about competition from China.
As globalization advances and economies become more tightly integrated, worries about the effects of foreign competition – through trade or through foreign investment – have fueled economic nationalism and protectionist sentiments.
But, while market competition works well in many sectors, banking is different.
The advanced economies and China together need to develop theories and policies which recognize that banks are different, and that the case for free-market competition – valid in other economic sectors – does not apply to them.
That should surely provide more than enough time for Japanese beef ranchers to prepare themselves for foreign competition (of the 870,000 tons of beef imported annually, 520,000 tons come from Australia, the US, and New Zealand).
Given continental Europe's chronically high unemployment and lack-luster macroeconomic performance, Europeans would be better off with lower interest rates and a weaker currency, which is why it is foolish to regard currency markets, as politicians so often do, as akin to an Olympic competition.
Of course, the so-called Washington Consensus – the quintessential neoliberal guide to development – emphasizes free-market competition, including trade liberalization.
By giving an advantage to larger and more developed companies and industries, free-market ideology can actually undermine effective competition.
Sino-American competition, rather than concrete policy responses or coordination, dominated discussions, to the point that the summit did not even end with a final communiqué – a first in APEC’s 25-year history.
But he understood instinctively that daily events were shaped by powerful trends and forces: the strategic competition between East and West, the evolving international financial system in the age of global interdependence, and the consequences of decolonization.
But perhaps the most important shift made in the Paris agreement is from selective coercion to collectively supported competition.
The metaphor of a game--with rules and participants--leads many to think in terms of a competition between nations.
Regulation can also benefit an economy by enabling competition.
That is why smart regulators charged with ensuring healthy competition, like the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, use a “sandbox” approach to enable testing of new technologies and business models without a crushing burden of regulation.
Their actions can – and often do – harm competition and growth, while failing to protect consumers.
Here was the prime example of competition and collaboration that typified the Rabin-Peres relationship.
The Copenhagen criteria are met when the candidate country has achieved “stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and respect for, and protection of, minorities”; can ensure the existence of “a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces”; and has sufficient “administrative and institutional capacity” to adopt and enforce EU law and “take on the obligations of membership.”
In this context, if markets are characterized by what economists call perfect competition, once the opportunity cost of all inputs has been paid, there is nothing left to distribute.
In the 1996 presidential campaign, resentments and exaggerations of import competition surfaced in economic nationalism, espoused by Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot on the right and trade union leaders on the left.
The Changing Geopolitics of EnergyTOKYO – In 2008, when the United States’ National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its volume Global Trends 2025, a key prediction was tighter energy competition.
A “spontaneous market” remains a term of abuse, although it means fruitful decentralization and sound competition.
This means starting the new year by implementing reforms that require only administrative action, such as granting licenses to private banks, increasing competition by removing barriers to entry for private firms, liberalizing interest and exchange rates, and extending residency rights to migrant laborers in small cities and towns.
Ultimately, however, I suspect that competition and innovation will survive the forthcoming regulations.
However, the competition also has its detractors.
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