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One hazard is a leftist corporatism, in which labor unions and well-placed cronies replace the ruling families and army officials, but political control of the economy and bureaucratic control of entrepreneurship are maintained.
This hazard should trouble reformers.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that, as a society, the benefits we have received from information-age technology have been neutralized by the envy and spite that results from living in a world that is ever more unequal.
The obvious problem with eurobonds is moral hazard: how to prevent fiscally irresponsible countries from free-riding on the credit-worthiness of other member states.
All bailouts can create moral hazard, because they weaken the incentive to implement reforms that will avoid bad outcomes in the future.
The fact that such purchases are potentially unlimited would exacerbate the problem of moral hazard.
Lastly, conservatives have trotted out the old moral hazard story in order to argue that a bailout would turn American manufacturing into a permanent beggar of government funds.
In fact, business has always lobbied Congress for favors and tax breaks, and the Lehman Brothers experience proved the foolishness of confusing parables about moral hazard with crisis management.
While the US Treasury and the IMF warned East Asian countries facing financial crises ten years ago against the risks of bail-outs and told them not to raise their interest rates, the US ignored its own lectures about moral hazard effects, bought up billions in mortgages, and lowered interest rates.
A surprising number of pundits seem to think that if one could only break up the big banks, governments would be far more resilient to bailouts, and the whole “moral hazard” problem would be muted.
The IMF’s first effort at prescribing a cure may be flawed, but its diagnosis of a financial sector bloated by moral hazard is manifestly correct.
The real lessons from the Fannie and Freddie debacle should be about the dangers of implicit government guarantees coupled with moral hazard and weak regulation, and the risks that lurk even in advanced financial systems.
Market fundamentalists blame this state of affairs on the moral hazard created by IMF bailouts.
But there can be no lender of last resort without a modicum of moral hazard.
The world's task is to find instruments that can minimize the possibility of moral hazard and yet keep the level of real risk within tolerable bounds.
But crop insurance suffers from what economists call a “moral hazard,” because it reduces farmers’ incentives to ensure the crop’s success.
The moral hazard implicit in crop insurance can be addressed by making payouts depend not on the actual crop failure but on the bad weather that caused it.
Since the farmer cannot influence the weather, there is no moral hazard.
And, despite “moral hazard,” about which we now hear so much and which everyone agrees was greatest in respect to nuclear-armed Russia, the West did let Russia default in 1998.
It is hard to overestimate the significance of the dilemma between solving looming problems and avoiding moral hazard.
One school of thought, epitomized by the US government, considers moral hazard a valid concern but thinks it shouldn’t be overplayed: “Firehouses don’t cause fires,” as former Treasury secretary Tim Geithner put it (or, in the words of Federal Reserve Deputy Chair Stan Fischer, “condoms don’t cause sex”).
There is one thing that the presence of Ukrainian nuclear weapons would have added to today’s mix: another huge layer of potential hazard, owing to the risk of stumbling into a catastrophe through accident, miscalculation, system error, or sabotage.
As a result of this “moral hazard,” these banks can borrow on favorable terms, giving them a competitive advantage based not on superior performance but on political strength.
Those worried about the short-run contractionary effects on the economy call the first option “austerity”; those concerned about long-term sustainability and moral hazard call it “discipline.”
So, says Perotti, the “cut taxes now, cut spending later” combination would involve enormous moral hazard.
But unconditional aid only delays reforms, because it weakens budget constraints, which reduces pressure on policymakers and creates moral hazard.
And it carries its own serious risks of moral hazard and the loss of the ECB’s credibility and independence.
Economists are trained to worry about this problem, known as moral hazard.
Even with dramatically improved batteries extending drones’ range, the crush of vehicles needed to move large numbers of people overhead would present a daunting safety hazard.
He was apparently reading from a textbook on moral hazard.
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