By using its dominance to gain access to competing firms' intellectual property, Intel diminishes the incentive for companies to develop new PC chip technologies, thus harming competition and cementing its own dominance in the industry, the FTC argues.
On the plans to remove rebates on office and retail property that is lying empty, the property investment specialist doubted it would act as an incentive to landlords to do more to find tenants.
In situations where property rights are not secure, there is much less incentive to spend hours investing labor when it is so easily stolen in the end.
Banks have an incentive to lend as much as possible when property prices are rising, but then to pull out when prices fall, exacerbating both the boom and the bust.
Assigning ownership of the intellectual property from the funding agency to the institutions and researchers doing the actual work gave academics a powerful incentive to exploit their findings.
Given the steeply progressive rates on high incomes, this created a strong incentive to figure out ways to income split between couples and also advantaged couples in community property states.