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By agreeing, year after year, to the mutualization of defense costs, what sort of incentives is France providing to Germany to undertake reform?
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
It also largely removes incentives for both management and workers to engage in the kind of costly strategic behavior -- such as strikes and lockouts -- that sometimes characterizes labor relations in investor-owned firms.
To be sure, employees frequently have better incentives and ability to oversee a firm's managers than do investors of capital, who are often remote from the firm.
Profits create incentives to respond to the information contained in prices.
Without the market mechanism, the adjustment is taking place with too little information and too many perverse incentives, making its impact on production and welfare even more devastating.
Since the new government could also fall unless it retains a legislative majority, parliamentary systems have important “coalition requiring” and “coalition sustaining” incentives.
Unlike a directly elected president in classic presidentialism, such a legislatively produced president could be voted out by a “constructive vote of no confidence,” leaving incumbents subject to “coalition requiring” and “coalition sustaining” incentives.
There should be tax incentives for firms to hire the long-term unemployed; more public spending on infrastructure, education, and research to compensate for the shortfall in private capital spending; and still higher capital requirements for banks and strengthened regulation of nonbank financial institutions to prevent them from excessive risk-taking.
According to a new World Bank report, as of 2014, 144 countries had established national plans to expand renewable energy, and almost 100 had set specific targets and incentives.
Lacking any semblance of a strategy to boost savings – not just a long-term fix to the federal government’s budget deficit, but also meaningful incentives for personal saving – US politicians have turned to yet another quick fix.
The dual-exchange-rate system ends up distorting production incentives and causing the effective supply of imported goods to decline, leading to a combination of inflation and shortages.
Perverse incentives are only one reason that many of the hoped-for benefits of low interest rates did not materialize.
So we need to tighten the feedback loops and create stronger incentives for behaviors that advance the common good, including that of future generations.
Incentives that reinforce practices that preserve biodiversity must be applied at all levels if they are to influence individual actions and social norms.
The pickup in global growth is likely to be a catalyst for change, creating incentives for firms to invest and introduce new technologies, some of which will substitute for labor, offsetting the slowdown in the growth of the workforce.
The emergence of the clean-energy sector reflects rational policies – from research to financing to tariff incentives – in the world’s largest economies.
This enabled the establishment of well-defined goals and incentives for local officials as they competed with one another.
Moreover, China offers incentives of about $8,000 for the purchase of EVs.
Adverse political incentives in Central and Eastern Europe are partly to blame for this situation.
Given Germany’s relative economic strength, it has a special responsibility to help foster investment throughout Europe, including by promoting European-level reforms of transport and energy, supporting incentives for innovation, and backing digital modernization.
The Nordic experience also belies conservatives’ claim that a large social welfare state weakens incentives to work and save.
Taxation is broad-based and relatively non-distorting, while open international trade, market forces, and private ownership of industry are relied on to maintain incentives.
But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent-seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth.
Some adaptation will occur naturally, as rising energy and other commodity prices generate incentives to economize or seek alternatives.
We need to enable people to defend themselves against others; prevent innocent, well-meaning people from becoming infected and harming others; and reduce the incentives and ability of the ill-intentioned to do harm.
The point is to create economic incentives to reduce cybercrime.
According to a recent World Bank report, about 30% of them live in India, a sleeping giant about to industrialize, given the right incentives.
The US role as the invisible third party to the agreement involves a series of incentives offered to the regime in Khartoum to ensure agreement and implementation of a peace deal.
Incentives for resolving the conflict rarely emerged, and invariably on only one side or the other, but not both.
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