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A recent paper by MIT Professors Nittai Bergman and Derk Jenter suggests that management tends to award employee options when employees are excessively optimistic about the outlook for company stock – thereby in effect opportunistically substituting overpriced options for full pay.
They should not stand in the way of compensation that includes stock options, or that otherwise create financial risks for their employees.
But they should make sure that such programs are administered in employees’ interest, because companies that encourage their employees to hold options or to invest directly in the company’s stock are asking them to take on some of the company’s risks.
Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.
That leaves farmers with two options, neither of them good: clear virgin forests and start again or get out of the business entirely.
The recent United States-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) shows the way, by imposing US-determined national content obligations on the other two countries and restraining their own trade policy options.
The options backdating scandal that recently caught Apple’s chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform; now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.
And, more than ever, the health-care options that poor people do have are being degraded by a familiar foe.
But the outcomes that the world needs – viable financing options and frameworks to support economic transformation, as well as integrated environmental and sustainable-development governance – cannot be achieved without political will.
Two important options for raising consumption are social insurance – which is developing, but too slowly – and reducing state-owned enterprises’ huge savings by paying dividends to citizens, much as privately owned companies routinely pay dividends to shareholders.
This approach severely limits rival states’ options by confounding their deterrence plans and making it difficult for them to devise proportionate or effective counter-measures.
Too little is known about various options to commit the US to one and reject others.
But in times of slow economic growth, policymakers’ options are grim.
But even a partial shift in meat-consumption habits – with consumers choosing options like chicken and seafood, instead of beef – could have a far-reaching impact.
It is a society with a diversity of opinions, options, opportunities and interest groups.
Although the last two options might be difficult to merge –Mexico might not want the competition of such a large player as Brazil – they are not mutually exclusive.
The beneficial effect on the risk-return options available to investors/savers (including pension funds) will outweigh the higher cost of debt; indeed, an important subset of growth engines in the tradable sector is not dependent on low-cost debt.
But with so much capital, the options are limited.
“Even Berlin has options.”
But the main reason C. auris represents such an acute threat is that treatment options are severely limited.
So even if companies do invest in breakthrough drugs, cheaper options will soon be available, reducing profit margins considerably.
But, their policy options need to stress improvement , not dismantlement or destruction, of their rules and institutions.
But then a strange thing happened: the Bush administration did not order any of the three options that were thought to be on the menu.
It will take a blend of the three options – the threat of military force, the reality of economic sanctions, and the resumption of diplomacy —to deal with North Korea’s challenge.
Global forces and national policies create externalities that constrain policy options.
It is unlikely that the Kremlin would attempt another military intervention in Kosovo (their effort in 1999 to land troops at Pristina airport was a fiasco), but it has a range of options that must give the West pause.
To help limit future debt accumulation, countries have three options.
The talent for financial innovation that produced harmful new home-mortgage options before the crash should now be harnessed to develop more flexible mortgages that help borrowers avoid default.
Unlike Jordan, which was able to consider a rescue mission for its own hostage and launch a powerful military response after he was killed, Japan's constitution left it no options for rescue or retaliation.
And he won’t have very good options, either.
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