The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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Importantly, the tide can wash out as quickly as it comes in when it comes to how companies can benefit from public sector incentive programs.
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The impending expiration of this tax benefit could be the final incentive needed for companies to reinvest in their climate control systems, and if so, Johnson Controls will be a key beneficiary of this trend.
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The benefit of the latter is the incentive provided by the chance that the buyer will be able to redeem the bond for more than par.
They should clearly articulate their incentive pay and project the economic benefit that will follow.
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Simultaneously, as a reenlistment incentive, Congress passed a new benefit, the equivalent of the private sector's 401(k) plans.
In formal terms, the consumer has an incentive to spend until the marginal benefit of additional spending, or additional health care is zero, so different from an efficient market, where consumers spend until the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost.
Only in that case will there be an incentive to weigh the cost against the benefit and make an informed decision regarding the trade-offs.
Indeed, the biggest incentive to give then might not be the financial benefit but the satisfaction of shrinking government.
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In America some states pay no benefit for the first week of unemployment, giving the worker an incentive to find a job straight away.
During speculative bubbles, there is a point at which sophisticated players lose the incentive to correct a trend away from fundamentals and instead benefit from going along with it.
As a plaintiff in the lawsuit to stop Comptroller Combs from making illegal payment, we were pleased she chose not to make the first advance payment thereby tapping the brakes on the incentive until the race was over and attendance and economic benefit were more certain.
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Teaching the class at Columbia created a strong incentive to do so, and this year I had the benefit of having Jeff Perkowski, my nephew who is a senior at University of Virginia, in Beijing on an internship.
This is a big year for lobbying, and natural gas producers could indeed benefit from a cap-and-trade bill because it would create an incentive to rely less on electricity generated by traditional coal-fired power plants.
Moreover, the chancellor's obsession with means-tested state pensions has undermined the incentive to save for retirement and the skewing of the tax-benefit system against marriage has been greatly exacerbated, despite overwhelming evidence that young people brought up within married couple families tend to be more successful and less likely to be involved in criminal activities than those who are not.
There is no incentive for one company to develop the infrastructure from which every other company will also benefit.
This creates a split-incentive, because the ship owner (who would pay for the upgrades) does not get the benefit of savings on fuel consumption.
Often people overlook the limits of incentives because of the lure of the tax benefit and find themselves in the wrong investment ending up losing far more than they would have gained with the incentive or missing out on opportunities they never considered.
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Without a federal guarantee, they would have had a greater incentive to reform their pension systems long ago, perhaps by paying out existing commitments and phasing out defined benefit pensions for new employees.
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