Again, informational asymmetries and misaligned incentives are at the heart of what happened.

A Misaligned Euro?

A third problem particular relevant to banks, risk managers, and traders has been misaligned incentives. Incentive structures have been overwhelmingly aligned to short term performance.

The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the environment.

Incentives are distorted.

Incentives always help.

Incentives must be introduced.

We rely heavily on incentives .

Moreover, a distortion of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined.

Incentives alone could not produce growth.

That weakened the incentives for entrepreneurship.

The reason for this is incentives.

Offer incentives to Kenya's resilient farmers.

According to these IMF theoretical equilibrium rates, the euro is grossly misaligned 30 underpriced against the dollar, 18 against the Yen!

In fact, the incentives are already there.

Responsible use will require adequate economic incentives.

Corporate officers respond to incentives and opportunities.

Moreover, a distortion of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined. As money talks in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.

Markets may not provide incentives for wealth creation they may provide incentives for the kind of shenanigans Enron pursued.

Moreover, today s global imbalances and misaligned real exchange rates threaten to bring on not just mild recession, but significant and prolonged depression.

A lower rate would strengthen incentives for investment and job creation in the US, and weaken incentives for tax avoidance.

Castro believes in giving farm workers greater incentives.

Better incentives must be part of the solution.

Excessive taxation can dull incentives and hinder growth.

What Levitt grasped and what the Enron debacle shows so clearly is that incentives matter, but that unfettered markets by themselves may not provide the right incentives. Markets may not provide incentives for wealth creation they may provide incentives for the kind of shenanigans Enron pursued.

They had deployed all the right incentives, all the right incentives. They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles.

The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.

The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

The other basic instrument includes economic incentives and disincentives.

We need incentives. People have to make a living.

Finally, incentives for private retirement saving should be expanded.

The employers initially trusted the employees to work hard without specific incentives, and quickly learned that, without such incentives, many employees would shirk.

Whereas pharmaceutical companies lack incentives to aid the poor in developing countries, they have strong incentives to develop products for people in affluent countries.

These countries should be given incentives to maintain their forests.

It is a matter both of incentives and social justice.

Yes, the market economy can provide incentives for wealth creation.

What incentives could be provided to induce them to testify?

The point is to create economic incentives to reduce cybercrime.

The review will study whether market incentives can be changed.

As money talks in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.

Japan, however, raised the ante with new offers of financial incentives.

Without incentives and radical decentralization, economic progress is simply a dream.

They need the resources, and the incentives, to maintain their forests.

El Salvador is constrained by inadequate production incentives in tradable goods.

What Levitt grasped and what the Enron debacle shows so clearly is that incentives matter, but that unfettered markets by themselves may not provide the right incentives.