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With time, the incentive effects would progressively weaken, and the structural lift to employment would disappear, as workers and managers grew wealthier in response to their higher after-tax wages.
With little incentive to manufacture “structured investment vehicles,” few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.
Allowing their currencies to depreciate in real terms would make their products more competitive, and also provide an incentive for production to shift out of non-tradables into tradables.”
Their claims that progress would lead to accession were shown to be false, and an important incentive for officials was eliminated.
Indeed, from the beginning, countries with no history of fiscal prudence or sound economic policies lacked any motivation to play by the rules; on the contrary, they had every incentive to violate them.
Given that some eurozone members always adhere to the rules, profligate countries’ incentive to discard the fiscal rulebook is obvious.
Moreover, the incentive for economic migrants to seek asylum would be reduced, and affluent countries could fulfill their responsibility to accept more refugees from the camps, while maintaining control of their borders.
Market failures must not be allowed to undermine the incentive to accumulate knowledge.
The possibility that the use of fossil fuels will one day be restricted creates a powerful incentive for oil producers to sell as much as they can before the limitations take effect.
Countries had little incentive to make peace with their neighbors as long as they enjoyed the financial support of the US or the USSR.
Had such funding been available to mount a robust initial response when Ebola emerged, the WHO would have had a strong incentive to declare an international emergency in a timely manner.
And that could prove to be even more difficult, because the current closed nature of the medical-information system and its self-directed incentive structure block such sharing.
But Burma’s generals will have little incentive to opt for an alternative to bloodshed and repression if China continues to provide them with support and protection against sanctions at the UN Security Council.
The Treasury has no incentive to increase the public debt by issuing more bonds for monetary policy.
But, unlike in developed countries, China’s piecemeal unemployment insurance and underdeveloped reemployment programs weaken the incentive for people to seek assistance.
This gives us an incentive to lead the global transition from gas-powered vehicles to electric cars, buses, and trains.
Reducing borrowing costs further would diminish the incentive for governments to put their fiscal houses in order.
The international community agrees that ending the conflict is in everyone’s interest – France has long argued for a new resolution, and Russia has no incentive to oppose one.
With no need to tax the public, Nigeria's government has little incentive to provide services efficiently: oil revenues are manna from heaven and keep flowing regardless of what the public sector delivers.
Indeed, alumni have the most incentive to donate generously, and to manage the university effectively.
The lack of profit does not diminish an alumni-dominated board’s incentive to compete for prestige by, for example, hiring distinguished faculty, accepting meritorious students, and striving for athletic or artistic achievement.
Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue-raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.
The prospect of a forced exit would restore balance to the eurozone by giving member countries a strong incentive to follow the rules, while taking away their disproportionate bargaining power.
This would give consumers an incentive to increase spending, especially on large ticket items, before each increment raises prices.
Without any other compass, the incentive structures they adopted did motivate them – not to introduce new products to improve ordinary people’ lives or to help them manage the risks they faced, but to put the global economy at risk by engaging in short-sighted and greedy behavior.
Candidates have no incentive to focus attention on a subject, such as the strained Atlantic Alliance, that seldom if ever enters the consciousness of the average voter.
With less invested in the system, advocates for such a system will have less incentive to push for it.
The ability and incentive to work cooperatively to solve these problems must be strengthened, not weakened.
One area on which to focus is the Ukrainian financial sector, where both Russian and Western European banks are highly exposed – and thus have a strong incentive to work together to maintain financial stability.
British, German, or French representatives negotiating EU policies in Brussels compete for reelection only at home, giving them little incentive to consider the interests of people in peripheral economies.
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