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And everywhere, as people think about the unprecedented sums which are being spent of our money and our children's money, now, in the depth of this crisis, they're asking: Surely, we should be using this with a longer-term vision to accelerate the shift to a green economy, to prepare for aging, to deal with some of the inequalities which scar countries like this and the United States rather than just giving the money to the incumbents?
Overall, this newly efficient market will be tough on both incumbents and new entrants.
If market incumbents are willing to share “innovation specifications” (which should not be confused with innovation methods), they can develop an effective network of innovation suppliers, thereby increasing the reliability of the product-development engine.
Over the same period, in the high-income economies, 62% of incumbents managed to hold onto their positions.
Similarly, new partnerships with large industry incumbents – such as the tie-up between Daimler and Tesla and the controlling stake that Total took in SunPower – are reducing the cost of finance for smaller firms.
Still, the creative destruction of the digital era has also enriched many tech workers and investors, while reducing the fortunes of previous incumbents.
Do peer-to-peer businesses undercut incumbents by not paying similar taxes?
With public entities like the social security system and sovereign-wealth funds holding more diversified asset portfolios, incentives would be substantially reduced for market intervention favoring incumbents in which the state owned a large share.
NEW YORK – When incompetence in the Kremlin turns murderous, its incumbents can begin to tremble.
It is not yet clear how import quotas will be allocated; but almost any quota-allocation system will stifle competition and innovation by favoring incumbents over new market entrants.
It is encouraging to note that Burundi's leaders have so far managed to integrate leaders from the opposition and rebel groups into the country's political and military institutions without dismissing incumbents.
Many commentators claim that Americans Elect will simply take votes from the incumbents but have no lasting impact.
The key takeaway is that the timing of elections can reveal how well incumbents expect to perform in the future.
China needs to avoid the pattern by which past neglect of the service sector creates a class of incumbents who use political means to maintain their position.
These incumbents are primarily concerned with defending their market position.
And no wonder that voters in almost two-thirds of eurozone countries have turned out the incumbents in their most recent elections.
Central bankers have of course been known to help incumbents before elections, by allowing inflation to drift up and keep employment booming.
Kim Jong Il's father similarly ensured a smooth succession a decade ago by appointing family members to positions of power for 40 years, clearing the way by sending the incumbents to concentration camps.
Just as the global financial crisis has made euro membership seem more urgent and necessary than ever, euro incumbents have started floating proposals that would raise the bar for entry.
Instead of exploiting the current opportunity of unprecedented leverage over euro candidates to push them to meet the Maastricht criteria, euro incumbents are contemplating a new and exceedingly vague criterion based on the quality of banking systems.
Officials imagine that consumer protection requires another regulation whenever something goes wrong, resulting in thickets of rules that protect incumbents and lead to all kinds of unintended consequences and complexities.
For example, by removing information asymmetries about innovative products – asymmetries that are larger the more technologically advanced the products – regulation facilitates a level playing field between large incumbents and new entrants, enabling innovation to take root.
The reasons have nothing to do with the rise of political Islam, but everything to with poor electoral practices by elected incumbents and international indifference.
A private actor with a new idea often needs government approval to start up; and firms that enter an existing industry must compete with incumbents that usually already have government support.
If this thinking persists, there will be more interference in the business sector to protect incumbents and block newcomers.
In order to achieve this, the treaty created posts, such as the President of the European Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, whose incumbents could speak and act on behalf of the entire EU.
Europe’s “single digital market,” they argue, currently amounts “to a jumble of outdated, corporatist, counterproductive industrial policies that favor producers over consumers, big companies over small, traditional incumbents over digital startups, and EU firms over foreign ones.”
In too many sectors, incumbents are protected.
After all, it won only a simple majority; once opposition parties finish licking their wounds from this month’s results, new alliances may pressure the incumbents from all sides.
No Australian prime minister has served a full electoral term since 2007, and we have had four incumbents in the last 27 months alone.
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