Sentences with phrase «bad incentives»

But, the purchasing process is lengthy, confusing, and rife with bad incentive structures.

Lower nominal — but higher effective — tax rates would eliminate bad incentives and bring in more corporate income tax revenue.

So I don't think we need to think about financial advisers as bad people; we need to think about them as people with a really bad incentive structure.

For any number of reasons, this is a very poor strategy for reporting, one that generates bad incentives, creates badly distorted views of trends in performance, and leads to serious misinterpretations by the public.

Emissions evasion has even worse incentives than tax evasion.

June 2012 by Charles Rotblut The financial industry's bad incentive structure leads to higher costs, but investors can counteract dishonesty simply by asking direct questions.

Issues With Student Loan Forgiveness Programs Student borrowers frequently don't understand their repayment options, and current policies can create bad incentives.

Bad incentive structures for employees and a lack of communication to management contributed to Wells Fargo's sales practices scandal, the Fed's William Dudley said.

But she alone couldn't solve the more systematic problem at hand in the education system, nor can we continue to have an education system that relies on the anomalies — superheroes who ignore the system's bad incentives.

It would set up bad incentives to have the principal evaluating teachers without themselves being evaluated on student performance.

June 2012 by Dan Ariely The financial industry's bad incentive structure leads to higher costs, but investors can counteract dishonesty simply by asking direct questions.

The debts, the manipulation, malinvestment, bad incentives, etc..

In the case of junk bonds, a combination of salesmanship, bad incentives, poor math skills, and a misused academic paper drove the junk bond boom.

We need to be very thoughtful about what happens when we have a bad incentive structure.

Apparently, our investors have come across many managers who do not invest heavily in their own funds and, rightly, they see the inherent misalignment and bad incentives that result.

OTOH, at least one of the experts quoted against statins was described as a litigation expert, which suggests that the bad incentives aren't all on one side.

Not a bad incentive to pre-order either of Samsung's new flagship Android smartphones from Unlocked Mobiles.