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Not only were “too big to fail” financial institutions bailed out, but the
distortion
has become worse as these institutions have become – via financial-sector consolidation – even bigger.
And focusing the favorable tax treatment on such major risk insurance would reduce the wasteful
distortion
to spend more on minor health conditions that do not stimulate household saving and do not need insurance protection.
One reason for that outcome is the
distortion
of skill allocation.
Moreover, a
distortion
of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined.
The fundamental factors on the Chinese side are high corporate and household savings, together with some
distortion
of resource/utility prices.
Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks’ capital ratios also indicates a dramatic
distortion
of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules.
But the
distortion
of my own words was significant.
Some openly questioned the current US economic model, which is increasingly characterized by the monopolization of resources and
distortion
of political decision-making by vested interests.
As Milosevic showed again in the 1990s, when he claimed to be defending innocent Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, justifying military intervention solely on the basis of moral principles leaves too much room for their
distortion
and abuse.
They seem to include the risk of
distortion
in the financial system, worries that unemployment may fall to unsustainable lows, and concerns that raising interest rates too quickly will disrupt economic recovery.
But we cannot allow the
distortion
of faith or long-standing custom to be used as an excuse to ignore the rights of girls and women, and to hold their communities in poverty.
This is obvious to most Israelis, who also view this dominant role as a
distortion
of their ancient moral and religious values.
And of course the housing debt
distortion
was itself a key contributor to the crash.
Al-Shabaab justifies its brutal behavior with a deeply twisted ideology that combines a crude
distortion
of Islam with a Khmer Rouge-style embrace of radical agrarian-based autarky and murderous contempt for those with formal education.
One way to prevent this
distortion
would be to create a mechanism to bail out all banks with European money.
A further
distortion
stems from the prudential regulation adopted in reaction to the global financial crisis.
Given the
distortion
of reality that lay behind this vision, it is easy to understand how Pius XII came to be considered by its advocates an ally of Hitler.
Unfortunately, this leaves plenty of room for
distortion
and bias.
Jesse Fried and I warned about this short-term
distortion
five years ago, in our book Pay without Performance .
To address this distortion, the payoffs of financial executives should be tied not to the long-term value of their firms’ common shares but to the long-term value of a broader basket of securities.
Because patents are essentially government-granted monopolies, they lead to the same inefficiencies and rent-seeking behavior as any other such market
distortion.
Ceding the immigration debate to extremists has abetted another extraordinary distortion: people generally believe that the number of immigrants in their countries is far higher than it actually is.
The degree to which business interests are fragmented based on policy issues, cronyism or other factors often indicates the degree of
distortion
in the underlying market economy.
Choking off the flow of information leads to distortion, not confidence.
To address this
distortion
head on, and to provide clarity concerning the allocation of funds, the EGF should focus its limited funds on two simple active labor market programs: wage insurance and mobility allowance.
The first problem is the fragmentation and
distortion
of the price of capital.
Just like the many other “protective” measures taken during the crisis, this
distortion
of market processes will help to cement the sub-optimal allocation of European investment capital, hampering economic growth for years to come.
We will discover what could happen if politicians would rise above the
distortion
of the media’s intense concentration on terrorism and climate change.
The resulting market
distortion
is a major factor behind the chronic mismanagement of the world’s fisheries, which the World Bank calculates to have cost the global economy $83 billion in 2012.
On the high seas, the
distortion
is even larger.
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