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And the penalty rate means that financial institutions can’t profit from the investment behavior that left them illiquid – and creates an incentive to take due care to guard against such contingencies in the future.
Moreover, once a loan is securitized, the bank that issued it no longer has any incentive to ensure repayment by the borrower, which raises the risk of default and drives up interest rates.
Thus, the EU has a strong incentive to make Brexit as painful as possible for the UK, in order to discourage countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, or Finland from following the British example.
This means that the Leave camp has a powerful incentive to fulfill its own prophecy.
Even if a strike was an operational success, it would only set back Iran’s nuclear program by several years – while giving the regime a new incentive to acquire a nuclear deterrent and build better hidden and defended nuclear facilities.
But, given his rock-bottom standing in the region, most countries would regard this as an additional incentive to join the new bloc.
There are inherent conflicts of interest: owners and managers have a natural incentive to present a picture as rosy as possible.
But the interlinking of consulting and auditing practices puts other perverse incentives in place: an incentive to please the clients, who dislike unfavorable reports.
Possessing as little experience as the CEO and plenty of incentive to curry favor, they do not offer sound counsel.
If “us” includes only, say, the Alawites in Syria, the Kikuyu in Kenya, or Han Chinese in China, everyone else has an incentive to rebel.
The reliance on regional trade ties to support growth and employment has provided yet another incentive to sustain peace.
As Sovereign GDP-Linked Bonds points out, inflation-indexed debt is even more vulnerable to government cheating, because the monetary incentive for the government is to underreport inflation, which is in line with keeping up appearances.
This incentive structure has only become more extreme since the financial crisis of 2008.
Moreover, the region’s lower wages give firms an incentive to retain human workers.
If those arrangements are secure, users of land have an incentive not just to implement best practices for their use of it (paying attention to, say, environmental impacts), but also to invest more.
Resolving a sovereign-debt crisis requires a collective agreement by creditors, which can be achieved only by individual investors’ incentive to try to grab their money and run.
A corporate giant has little incentive to change its practices if the fines imposed on it amount to, say, less than a week’s earnings.
In the absence of a transnational government with the incentive, legitimacy, and capacity to resolve the conflict, Greece and the other eurozone countries have resorted to challenging each other’s sovereignty.
The relatively generous dole and the prospect of high taxes once in work merely reduces the incentive to take low-paid jobs.
The old model of private partnerships – in which partners had an incentive to monitor each other to avoid reckless investments – gave way to one of public companies aggressively competing with each other and with commercial banks to achieve ever-rising profitability, which was achievable only with reckless levels of leverage.
Profit is an incentive system that leads firms and individuals to respond to the information provided by prices.
But Eurobonds would also create huge incentive problems, because debtors in the eurozone periphery would no longer have to fear any punishment by markets and might thus be induced to consume and invest too much.
So any European growth that occurs without these measures will create an incentive to put them off.
The problems are rooted in the field’s incentive structure – a winner-take-all system in which grants, prizes, and other rewards go to those who publish first.
But other important reforms, such as creating alternatives to the winner-take-all incentive system, will present enormous challenges.
Second, because most exporters also import intermediate inputs that are priced in dollars, exchange-rate fluctuations have a limited impact on their costs and thus on their incentive to change dollar prices.
This, in turn, would give workers a tangible warning and an incentive to anticipate job losses before they occur.
If premiums were paid in part by the country seeking insurance and matched by donor contributions, countries would have a powerful incentive to implement robust social-protection programs.
But the agreement could also act as an incentive for ratifying the reforms.
The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual states to coordinate their policies.
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