Sentence examples for * distortionary from inspiring English sources

They are distortionary, inefficient, regressive and prone to corruption.

They are distortionary:  they cause consumers to divert spending from higher-valued to lower-valued uses.

Inflation is a distortionary tax, which poses certain costs on the economy.

This is the most distortionary exchange rate policy any major nation has ever followed.

Research, the authors wrote, suggests females' cycles are no more distortionary than males'.

Fuel duty is an area where taxes can have a distortionary effect, he says.

Economists historically frowned on minimum wages as distortionary price fixing that reduced demand for workers affected by the wage.

Ideally, the optimal unemployment benefit would balance the desired consumption-smoothing effect against the undesired distortionary effects.

Government borrowing can crowd out private investment, induce uncomfortably high levels of inflation, and create a need for distortionary taxation.

This political channel implies another, potentially more powerful and distortionary link between inequality and a non-level playing field.

Over time, it suggested, its value could be increased so it would completely replace not just council tax, but the notoriously distortionary stamp duty too.