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In the meantime, politicians are lulled into a false sense of complacency that undermines their incentive to confront the structural challenges they face.
That has been a very effective incentive for the purchase of private insurance in the United States and Britain.
New legislation will slow the growth of pension benefits substantially, and the Monti government’s increase in taxes on owner-occupied real estate will raise significant revenue without the adverse incentive effects that would occur if rates for personal-income, payroll, or value-added taxes were raised.
But creditors don’t have an incentive to place tough limits on banks.
Such platforms, if organized in accordance with human rights standards, could allow rapid processing to distinguish between economic migrants and those in need of international protection, while reducing the incentive to embark on perilous journeys in the hands of human traffickers.
But the EU should also consider allowing applications for asylum and humanitarian visas directly at EU embassies in third countries, to weaken further the incentive to pay traffickers.
For example, if loan-to-value ratios are reduced and down payments on home purchases are higher, households may have an incentive to borrow from friends and family – or from banks in the form of personal unsecured loans – to finance a down payment.
Moreover, opportunities for foreigners to raise their voice and influence American policies constitute an important incentive for being part of an alliance with the US.
At first, both the authorities and market participants treated all government bonds as if they were riskless, creating a perverse incentive for banks to load up on the weaker bonds.
Delaying EMU entry risks weakening the incentive to complete these politically costly but necessary reforms.
Before a new policy – say, a trade agreement – is adopted, beneficiaries have an incentive to promise compensation.
Another bit of conventional wisdom is that creating the right incentive structure and securing the necessary know-how to run state-owned enterprises is very difficult.
So policymakers need to provide them with an incentive not to.
As a result, board members owe their loyalty to the managers who directly or indirectly appoint them – and thus have little incentive to dissent, lest they be punished with exclusion.
A more credible concern is whether efforts to root out corruption weaken the incentive for government officials to promote growth.
Promotions provide officials with a strong positive incentive to boost growth.
Because the operational budget is set by Shell, and because the NNPC is plagued by corruption and lacks the expertise to verify production claims, the operating company has a powerful incentive to inflate costs.
In an environment of zero or near-zero interest rates, creditors have an incentive to “extend and pretend” – that is, roll over their maturing debt, so that they can keep their problems hidden for longer.
Europe's tendency to equalize salary and treatment of professors and researchers also reduces the incentive to engage in good research and good teaching.
On the other hand, if Thatcher had not been confident about her policies, she would have had a stronger incentive to cash in on her popularity by calling a snap election, lest she jeopardize her chances down the road.
The common shareholders in financial firms do not have an incentive to induce executives to take into account the losses that risks can impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, and taxpayers.
That is an incentive that Mubarak and Ben Ali never had.
But if bankers know that they will be bailed out in bad times, they have an incentive to make risky loans.
By guaranteeing to buy shares of a mutual fund, the central bank would provide an incentive for private investors to channel money to the stronger parts of the banking system while allowing the weaker parts to fail.
Second, it removes the incentive for banks to make bad decisions.
Finally, by offering to buy shares in a mutual fund of bank stocks, the central bank gives private investors the incentive and the confidence to recapitalize the banking system.
By committing to find a place for genuine refugees, such a policy would remove any incentive to take the perilous boat journey.
But the existing owners of high-priced homes have little incentive to support such construction, which would diminish the value of their own investment.
But the policy removed the incentive for farmers to limit the amount of water they pumped.
Rather than subsidizing the price in the domestic oil market (and thus giving domestic manufacturers and consumers an incentive to use too much oil), it would make far better sense to let the domestic price rise to the international price and distribute the windfall profits from foreign oil assets to the population.
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