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While it provides them an incentive not to pollute, emission allowances offset much of what they would have to pay under a tax system.
The consequences of the failure are already apparent: the price of emission rights in the European Union Emission Trading System has fallen, which means that firms will have less incentive to reduce emissions now and less incentive to invest in innovations that will reduce emissions in the future.
If it is too easy to default and reduce one’s debt burden, the result is moral hazard, because debtors gain an incentive to indulge in bad behavior.
The incentive is great, for, in a violent conflict between Israel and Iran, the Palestinians’ goal of independence in their homeland could be the first casualty.
China failed to undergo a similar shift, owing primarily to its civil-service examination system, which emphasized the memorization of Confucian classics and provided little incentive for elites to learn mathematics and science.
But the much larger, longer-run effect comes from increased oil exploration and extraction, owing to the incentive of higher prices.
Global leaders have every incentive to respond to this imperative, as the central role of education in enabling the world to achieve its development goals becomes increasingly clear.
That provides an incentive to retrofitting companies, while competition for customers, rather than for subsidies, will encourage the various providers to be efficient.
A user fee could pay for it, and, if the fee were low enough, the incentive to use pirated copies would diminish.
White argues that demand stimulus can impede deleveraging (presumably because ultra-low interest rates create an incentive for banks to forebear and roll over debts, rather than to restructure them and write them off).
The prospect of a customs union is the strongest incentive to implement the agreed free-trade deal and continue Ukraine’s long-term economic integration with Europe.
But the incentive to ignore these issues is gone, independent of what other countries choose to do and whatever global agreements may be reached.
Every national supervisor has an incentive to find that “our banks are safe,” even if many institutions are only thinly capitalized and thus weaken the system as a whole.
The competition – and prospect of belonging to a group of frontrunners – would be an added incentive for Balkan leaders to engage with the EU accession process.
The fact is that whenever one party has firm control of government, it has a powerful incentive to borrow to finance its priorities, knowing that it won’t necessarily be the one to foot the bill.
There is no sign that they have abandoned the incentive structure that encourages excessive risk-taking.
While currency depreciation has created opportunities for Japanese exporters, the combination of increasing import costs and rising interest rates creates a weak incentive for domestic investment and capital formation.
It will take two decades of reforms to change the incentive to overinvest.
This creates a powerful incentive to overinvest and implies enormous redistribution from households to SOEs, most of which would be losing money if they had to borrow at market-equilibrium interest rates.
If this is more than lip service, and if she really carries out a serious reform of the German welfare state’s incentive structure, the result could be higher employment and structural economic growth.
In this case, the bond would be released to the worker, creating an incentive for return migration and cultivating “brain circulation” instead of brain drain.
And, by ensuring that the cost of hiring a foreign worker was high enough to eliminate an employer’s incentive to forego an equally qualified domestic candidate, reversible bonds would eliminate concerns about labor displacement.
This will cost, say, $30 per ton of CO2 that is stored, so businesses will need an incentive to do it.
When both parties to a dispute know that they are likely to end in a labor court, neither has an incentive to compromise.
Reforms need to acknowledge the mindsets of people and the incentive structures that govern their behavior.
For example, Germany’s reluctance to provide debt relief to southern European countries has helped to prolong their woes; now, however, it may have sufficient incentive to do more, as it would reap immediate benefits from an EU-wide solution to the refugee crisis.
At present, industry is the primary source of tax revenue for the government, particularly at the local level, giving the state too little incentive to foster a service economy.
It would also create a powerful incentive for companies to expand into the service economy, providing more jobs and more choices for Chinese consumers.
In the past, abundant investment and energy revenues limited the incentive to mobilize tax revenues.
This approach can result in large rewards for important inventions--precisely what is needed if maximum incentive is to be given to people to develop bold new concepts--and has served us well over the centuries since 1624.
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