Sentences with phrase «deadweight losses»

Without more action by the government to help housing, the Fed warns that «the adjustment process will take longer and incur more deadweight losses, pushing house prices lower and thereby prolonging the downward pressure on the wealth of current home owners and the resultant drag on the economy at large.»

Each year, abusive patent litigation drains tens of billions of dollars from the economy, creating tremendous deadweight losses as well as a great deal of uncertainty.»

Generally, price competition has the effect of lowering prices for goods, increasing output, decreasing deadweight losses, and benefiting consumers.

Furthermore, as stated by the EPA «Biofuels also tend to require subsidies and other market interventions to compete economically with fossil fuels, which creates deadweight losses in the economy.»

As you wind down AIG Financial Products are you finding «deadweight losses» where the subsidiary was fundamentally mishedged?

All that said, I still think there are deadweight losses hiding inside that swap books of the major investment banks.

«The Brexit tax would be a pure deadweight loss.

Deadweight loss can be applied to any deficiency caused by an inefficient allocation of resources.

(This isn't just a silly abstract example; economists have documented that this «deadweight loss» actually happens.)

It reports that around 40 per cent of the total cost was spent on «deadweight loss» — that is, providing free meals to pupils whose parents «would otherwise have paid for a school lunch».

In economic theory there's a notion called deadweight loss, or market inefficiency, which impacts a consumer when the value of an item's utility is less than the price paid for it.

4) They have systemically mishedged their options exposure, leaving a deadweight loss that the accounting presently papers over.

In fact, his analysis indicated that higher bond mutual fund expenses were a dollar for dollar «deadweight loss.»

By implementing the tax cut via a marginal rate reduction, rather than just mailing people lump - sum checks, the Treasury can reduce the «deadweight loss» caused by distortionary income taxes.

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And this distortion of investment decisions produces a deadweight social loss: the expected net return on the invested capital falls from $ 7 million to zero.

To better understand why paying higher bond mutual fund fees creates a «deadweight» loss to individual investors, see this Bond Mutual Fund Fees article elsewhere on this website.

Simply put, if you pay higher bond mutual fund fees, then these bond management expenses tend just to be a «deadweight» loss to you.