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Another negative scenario is military rule.
Although labor productivity significantly increased under NAFTA, total factor productivity – a better measure of long-term competitiveness – has been constant, and sometimes negative, for 25 years.
In the face of a negative “shock,” workers will increase their leisure, causing output to fall.
News reports and “analysis” by state-controlled channels in both Russia and Georgia that promote negative images of “the enemy” serve only to widen the gap between ethnic groups.
And his 1960 paper “The Problem of Social Cost” proposed that the state could manage the negative externalities, such as pollution or traffic, of economic activities through well-defined property rights.
In most countries, a basic social-protection floor – which can help countries to mitigate the negative effects of shocks and prevent people from falling deeper into poverty – is affordable.
In the Scottish referendum, the key to securing a victory – and a comfortable one, at that – for the pro-UK camp was a combination of negative warnings and positive arguments.
If one were to extrapolate this trend, ten-year interest rates would move into negative territory in a few years or so for most of them.
In the US and the UK, yields on intermediate-term (5-year) inflation-indexed bonds are already actually negative this year.
One may ask: how can an interest rate be negative?
One can never have negative nominal interest rates (except through some oddity of taxes or regulations), since lenders would rather hold their cash than effectively pay borrowers.
But there is nothing to stop negative real interest rates, since routine investors may have no alternative risk-free instrument that offers a positive real return.
This implies an arbitrage opportunity for governments: borrow massively at these low (or even negative) real interest rates, and invest the proceeds in positive-returning projects, such as infrastructure or education.
However, the indirect impacts are negative and risky.
So long as Asia remains unstable, the negative impact of RMB devaluation on the regional market for Chinese goods and the Hong Kong dollar will be the primary focus of Chinese policymakers.
Learning About Growth from AusterityMILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP has an extended negative effect on growth.
The negative shock adversely impacts the non-tradable sector, which is large (roughly two-thirds of an advanced economy) and wholly dependent on domestic demand.
On the contrary, Kahneman and his colleagues found that people with higher incomes spent more time in activities that are associated with negative feelings, such as tension and stress.
After all, the question of whether to admit Ukraine into NATO has already essentially been answered in the negative in many European capitals.
Indeed, insofar as the impact of these policies on the recovery can be reliably measured, it is probably modest – definitely not worth the €2.3 trillion ($2.8 trillion) in assets purchased since April 2015, not to mention the other consequences of maintaining zero or negative interest rates.
Then both S&P and Moody’s changed their outlook from stable to negative.
Low interest rates on deposits and low lending rates for firms and developers mean that the household sector’s massive savings receive negative rates of return, while the real cost of borrowing for SOEs is also negative.
Yields on German Bunds are now negative out to eight years.
Both the two-year and five-year US repo rates have been pushed periodically into negative territory, owing to the combined effects of risk-averse behavior, investor deleveraging, and stricter banking regulation.
Troublingly, capitalism’s negative side effects are intensifying while confidence in public institutions has fallen to an historic low.
Would NATO membership of some countries have a positive or a negative effect on the security of states that do not become members?
Last but not least, would speedy enlargement of NATO have a positive or negative impact on Russia’s security policy towards its neighbors?
Most face constitutional requirements to run balanced budgets, which means that such states are now either raising taxes or cutting expenditures –a negative stimulus that offsets at least some of the Federal government’s positive stimulus.
Yet Germany also must realize that Russia’s negative evolution has consequences that Germans cannot escape.
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge – or refrain from charging – a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
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