But the extent of misalignment remains an open question.

Causes for misalignment may be found on both sides.

And Yang Yao of Beijing University has put the misalignment at less than 10 .

WASHINGTON, DC I share the growing concern around the world about the misalignment of currencies.

The current recession is as deep as the misalignment of specialized plans, relations, and contracts is extensive.

Incentives are distorted.

Incentives always help.

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

Better incentives must be part of the solution.

Incentives must be introduced.

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

We rely heavily on incentives .

Richard Nixon s treasury secretary, John Connally, once told a group of European leaders that while the dollar was America s currency, its misalignment was Europe s problem. Today, the misalignment of the dollar and the euro against the renminbi and other Asian currencies is increasingly becoming Asia s problem.

Is there a fundamental misalignment of the euro with other currencies (most notably the dollar) and how long might this last?

Is there a fundamental misalignment of the euro with other currencies (most notably the dollar) and how long might this last?

Today, the misalignment of the dollar and the euro against the renminbi and other Asian currencies is increasingly becoming Asia s problem.

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

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.

Thus, it is possible that increased government spending say, to boost car purchases could exacerbate the misalignment.

It is a matter both of incentives and social justice.

The alignment of incentives lies at the heart of modern financial theory.

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.

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

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.

In fact, the incentives are already there.

Responsible use will require adequate economic incentives.

Corporate officers respond to incentives and opportunities.

If raters profits depend on such performance on the accuracy of their ratings the profit motive would turn from a source of perverse incentives to a provider of beneficial incentives.

Instead, there is a complex misalignment problem too many autoworkers when too few people want new cars, for example that results in a decline in overall output. Thus, it is possible that increased government spending say, to boost car purchases could exacerbate the misalignment.

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

With the wrong incentives, with the kinds of incentives that were in place in corporate America, a drive for the creation of the appearance of wealth took hold, at the cost of actual wealth.

Castro believes in giving farm workers greater incentives.

Excessive taxation can dull incentives and hinder growth.

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

But the incentives to make any of this happen are just not there.

The Asian economies have been particularly aggressive in the use of such incentives.

Today s unemployment, after all, is structural, rather than the result of perverse incentives.

And, unlike tax incentives, wage subsidies target only employment of low wage workers.

Incumbent leaders must have the proper incentives to initiate gradual processes of reform.

The state of North Carolina is offering up to 15 million in incentives.

The failed procedures resulted in jaw misalignment, asymmetrical eye size and eyelids, crooked noses and stiff facial muscles, among other consequences.

The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.