Idiosyncratic
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And, third, exporters who wish to preserve their share in world markets – where prices are largely denominated in dollars – choose to keep their dollar prices stable, to avoid falling victim to
idiosyncratic
exchange-rate movements.
The seemingly objective top-down approach ignores the
idiosyncratic
nature of risk and assumes that one mortgage loan is like the next.
Soviet authorities relied on an
idiosyncratic
definition of schizophrenia, introduced by a professor of psychiatry (A.V. Snezhnevsky) in Moscow.
Likewise, the European Union, in contrast to the United States, regards the leverage ratio as a supervisory optional extra, known as a “Pillar 2 measure” (which permits supervisors to add additional capital buffers to address a particular bank’s
idiosyncratic
risks).
Aside from the usual efficiency arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and
idiosyncratic
national tax arrangements.
While each emerging-market trouble spot – Venezuela, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina – has
idiosyncratic
features, a pattern is starting to emerge.
Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large,
idiosyncratic
risks of bankruptcy and poverty.
But Chechnya, obliging as it is, is small, poor, and
idiosyncratic.
Niyazov forced students, from grammar school to the post-graduate level, to make his
idiosyncratic
book, the Ruhnama , the primary focus of their studies.
Because each society has a unique set of characteristics, constraints and goals, policies are necessarily idiosyncratic: the path is made by walking.
So no one in Europe needs to fear that the Czech Republic has some nostalgic or
idiosyncratic
agenda that it wants to impose on the Union.
Both sides in these disputes usually omit to mention the key
idiosyncratic
characteristics and specific starting conditions that can make direct comparisons meaningless.
As tempting as it may be to attribute these developments to
idiosyncratic
factors, the latest slowdown in developed countries is not so easily dismissed.
The Italian media eagerly linked the two “Super Marios,” with photomontages showing the prime minister with the soccer player’s
idiosyncratic
mohawk hairstyle.
For example, what sense does it make for each college in the United States to offer its own highly
idiosyncratic
lectures on core topics like freshman calculus, economics, and US history, often with classes of 500 students or more?
True, given complex risk factors and
idiosyncratic
policy preferences, it has been particularly challenging of late to divine the logic underlying big exchange-rate swings.
The island’s
idiosyncratic
tax and expenditure system – and the lack of effective local control over fiscal policy – has become part of the longer-term problem.
This protected investors from a general sell-off of the carry trade and lessened their exposure to
idiosyncratic
risks.
They emerge from
idiosyncratic
path-dependent processes, whereby each organizational innovation changes the ecosystem, making other changes feasible.
Economics is a social science, and aggregate outcomes often reflect the effects of
idiosyncratic
behavior, attitudes, and events.
By taking advantage of
idiosyncratic
knowledge and local capabilities, countries can make the most of technological diffusion, often beginning with adoption, then moving to adaptation and, later, invention.
Crime tends to be
idiosyncratic
and linked to complex social dynamics that do not lend themselves to easy or uniform solutions.
Of course, Germany fails to recognize that successful monetary unions like the United States have a full banking union with significant risk-sharing elements, and a fiscal union whereby
idiosyncratic
shocks to specific states’ output are absorbed by the federal budget.
New processes for capturing and accommodating patients’ personal experiences – which are typically idiosyncratic, subjective, and impossible to standardize – would go a long way toward ensuring that each patient receives the right treatment.
No longer was the Fed responding just to
idiosyncratic
crises and the market disruptions they spawned.
More workers were forced into informal jobs or self-employment, and real wages fell, owing to higher inflation, depreciating currencies, and certain
idiosyncratic
supply-side shocks.
Israel’s current leaders, and a segment of Israeli society, are trapped in an
idiosyncratic
logic of fear and self-centeredness.
Those guidelines, based on what has proved to be an
idiosyncratic
and largely invalid set of assumptions, sent a powerful message that scientists and the federal government were taking seriously speculative, exaggerated risk scenarios – a message that has afflicted the technology’s development worldwide ever since.
Rapid integration into global markets is a consequence, not of trade liberalization or adherence to World Trade Organization (WTO) strictures per se, but of successful growth strategies with often highly
idiosyncratic
characteristics.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti was rapidly dubbed “super Mario,” and a photomontage in the press depicted him with the
idiosyncratic
Mohawk hairstyle of Mario Balotelli, the player who scored the two Italian goals.
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