Example collocations logo

Negative in sentence

2738 examples of Negative in a sentence

Because such a compensation structure would expose executives to a broader share of the negative consequences of risks taken, it would reduce their incentives to take excessive risks.
By persistently adhering to a planned economy and obsolete ideology, North Korea is trapped in a vicious cycle, suffering from unstable food supplies and low, or sometimes negative, economic growth.
By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region’s recent territorial disputes.
Most arguments in favor of infrastructure investment focus on the negative: collapsing bridges, congested highways, second-rate air travel, and so forth.
And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.
Most commentary on the anniversary has been negative, suggesting that the agreement bears considerable blame for the frequency and durability of the region’s conflicts.
Both also face major price distortions, owing to quantitative easing by monetary policymakers, which has led to negative real interest rates.
The central bankers justify their concern about low inflation by arguing that a negative demand shock could shift their economies into a period of prolonged deflation, in which the overall price level declines year after year.
Second, negative inflation means that real interest rates rise, because central banks cannot lower the nominal interest rate below zero.
In theory, by depressing aggregate demand, the combination of increased real debt and higher real interest rates could lead to further price declines, leading to even larger negative inflation rates.
This dilemma has begun to have a negative effect on the countries that lie between Russia and the EU.
Economists do not fully understand why expanded trade has produced the negative consequences for wages and employment that it has.
Given that the German economy’s output gap remains negative, the government should be implementing expansionary fiscal policy that targets the country’s infrastructure weaknesses.
Such a cost shock has a more prolonged effect than a negative demand shock.
Without negative external shocks, exorbitant TFP growth would have declined gradually, as the returns from institutional adjustment, reallocation of resources, and technological catch-up naturally diminished, in accordance with the convergence hypothesis.
Now, in response, the European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped up its stimulus, joining the Bank of Japan and a couple of other central banks in showing that the “zero lower bound” – the inability of interest rates to become negative – is a boundary only in the imagination of conventional economists.
And yet, in none of the economies attempting the unorthodox experiment of negative interest rates has there been a return to growth and full employment.
If a positive interest rate doesn’t suffice, then a negative interest rate should do the trick.
In many economies – including Europe and the United States – real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates have been negative, sometimes as much as -2%.
The small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that are willing to borrow couldn’t get access to credit before the ECB went negative, and they can’t now.
Negative interest rates hurt banks’ balance sheets, with the “wealth effect” on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.
Instead of giving serious consideration to unfounded theories speculating that excessively low interest rates could, under certain conditions, discourage growth and investment, the Fed should have committed itself even more decisively to zero or even negative rates.
Defective growth models in advanced countries, based on excess credit and domestic aggregate demand (and complicated by structural flaws and limited adjustment mechanisms in Europe), led to instability, a crisis, and a large negative shock to the real economy.
The tariffs are presumably having a negative effect on US imports, but negative effects on US exports are also large.
Adverse trade developments are a negative supply shock.
Skillful monetary policy can help offset a negative demand shock, but can do little or nothing to offset a supply shock.
Many believe that Brexit’s feared negative effect on UK growth has not yet materialized, partly because the Bank of England eased monetary policy.
Its core was the belief that the state could provide both stable economic growth and social welfare to cushion the negative side effects of free markets.
My own work showed that borderline mutations, those with very small positive or negative effects, could be very important in driving evolutionary changes.
To offset the negative shock, the Chinese government enacted a four-trillion-renminbi stimulus package, and the PBC shifted its policy stance abruptly.
BackNext