Sentence examples for asymmetries from inspiring English sources

Since 2008 Nato has been openly sounding the alarm about plunging defence expenditure, and in his 2012 report the then secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned of "an ever greater military reliance on the United States, and growing asymmetries in capability in European allies.

Banks and capital markets help to reduce "information asymmetries" caused because a borrower tends to know more about his prospects than a lender.

Thanks to imperfections, whether "sticky wages" or asymmetries of information, markets do not always clear, and overall demand can fall short of an economy's potential.Unfortunately, says Mr Skidelsky, this intellectual evolution has paid far too little attention to Keynes's other big insight, which regards "radical" or "irreducible" uncertainty as the root cause of economic instability.

In Germany, by contrast, the concern was rather different: that, precisely because of such "asymmetries", the ECB would be laxer in its monetary policy than the old Bundesbank, and would keep interest rates too low.Things have not worked out quite as either side supposed.

Actually, legalisation would move drugs away from the out-of- control cartels and gangs who traffic in them now and into a properly regulated system.Norm Stamper Seattle chief of police, 1994-2000 SIRttlePensions* SIR - It is heartening to see that you understand the perverse incentives and information asymmetries that characterise fund management ("Wasting assets", June 20th).

But there are a lot of asymmetries between the Democratic and Republican parties that result in non-parallel behavior.

The architect, Barry Sampson, and his team designed it deliberately with structural asymmetries that would emphasise, but not upstage, the free-flying antics of its inhabitants.

These assumed that markets were perfectly competitive, free of informational asymmetries such as those identified by Berle and Means.Although Modigliani and Miller slowed the development of economic theories of corporate finance, their work became a foundation stone of financial economics.

It seemed to explain a whole host of other exchange asymmetries, too, such as why people often require a higher price to sell a good than they would be willing to pay to buy it.

If the American economy should slow and unemployment tick up, such "asymmetries" would leave President Clinton with a dicey political problem.

Both seem drawn to twisting asymmetries and off-kilter angles with almost mannerist intensity.