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Collective decisions are taken by patriarchs in councils called jirgas, where all have to be in agreement.
Not only have they enabled investors to avoid paying for their poor decisions; they have also given overpriced southern European countries the opportunity to defer real depreciation in the form of a reduction of relative prices of goods.
Such a tricameral legislature, its proponents believe, would better ensure that political decisions are made by more educated and enlightened representatives, thereby avoiding the rank populism of Western-style elected factions.
Price movements (the expected capital gain) can drive buying and selling decisions even in the absence of changes to expected dividends (the fundamentals).
As the Nobel laureate economist Robert J. Shiller has noted, stories, whether true or not, are drivers of major decisions, especially economic choices.
But the powers who made decisions in the former Yugoslavia had contempt for such restraint.
The EU must increase the involvement of its own voters in endorsing and supporting the decisions taken in Brussels.
In the United States, doubts focus on the willingness of the Federal Reserve to remain “unconventional”; elsewhere, however, doubts about effectiveness concern central banks’ ability to formulate, communicate, and implement policy decisions.
Authorities from the region should participate in decisions about where to rebuild bridges and highways.
Managers, not owners, get the final say in corporate decisions.
Even some capital-oriented thinking says that shareholders are better off if managers make all major decisions.
Yes, we can deal with the problem to some extent by using modern technology or video replays to review controversial refereeing decisions.
Responses to a survey that my colleague Karl Case and I conducted in 1988 during the US boom revealed that casual word-of-mouth transmission of emotional excitement played a big role in purchasing decisions.
But the uproar caused by these decisions reinforces, rather than dispels, doubts.
Moreover, any attempt to misrepresent requires further and more complex misrepresentations, which have serious consequences as subsequent decisions come to be based on erroneous assumptions.
But, with no single all-powerful leader, it will be hard for any successor to force through the difficult decisions required by such an orientation.
Physicians or institutions with economic interests can also influence the decisions of vulnerable hospital patients who are reluctant to consent to certain procedures.
Under the agreement, which US President Barack Obama’s administration shepherded through tough negotiations, America would remain the IMF’s largest single shareholder, retaining its veto over major decisions.
The European Arrest Warrant is already producing concrete results, and we are moving towards the "free movement of judicial decisions" in the EU, through which judicial decisions - such as arrest and surrender of suspects, confiscation, and freezing of assets - will be mutually recognized.
Price stability, according to this view, reduces uncertainty, thereby enabling firms and individuals to take the right decisions, so it is good, not bad, for economic activity.
Indeed, one benefit of the European Commission's rule that some decisions must be unanimous is that its impedes the exercise of monopoly power, thus reducing the risk that centralized authority will be used against markets.
On the fiscal side, the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact were even weakened, and the decisions on adjustment measures and possible sanctions became dependent on short-sighted political considerations.
But most decisions about how to spend the money they receive are made outside the country.
All of these are worthy goals, to be sure, but they belong intrinsically to the sphere of national political decisions.
Moreover, the delusion that the European Council can somehow call growth and productivity into being has provided a diversion to national politicians who are unwilling to push for unpopular decisions back home.
Commercial arbitration – and courts’ obligations to enforce the arbitrators’ decisions – can assure investors, even if the courts generally do not.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, for example, has told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that national decisions “should be treated with respect” – code for less judicial oversight.
Some political leaders seem too preoccupied with their own disagreements with individual decisions to see the larger interest in preserving a European institution that commands widespread admiration.
But, given the extreme deregulatory approach of President George W. Bush’s administration, it defies belief to suggest that it would have created major new rules regarding derivatives but for the 2000 act; so I am not sure how consequential our decisions were.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court still has only eight members, instead of the usual nine, creating the possibility of split votes on key decisions.
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