According to political cost hypothesis, government would implement stronger regulation on larger-scale enterprises and make them bear a higher tax burden (Zimmerman 1983).
Larger initial returns occurred in the early stages of privatization, which is consistent with the hypothesis that governments use underpricing to be credible privatizators.
The acceptance of a free market hypothesis in government in the 1990s and 2000s and the corresponding need for very light touch regulation of financial markets and the economy in general would be one example of the dangers of group-think.
Worse, they peddle their untested hypotheses to governments, and try to get them turned into policies.The Campbell Collaboration, whose second annual conference has just taken place in Philadelphia, exists to change both this perception and the reality behind it by advancing the cause of "evidence-based" social policy.
A more conspiratorial hypothesis accuses government scientists of introducing the pythons into the Everglades to garner support for a ban on pet snakes. .
The above discussions lead to the following hypotheses: Central government ownership will be positively related to the R&D intensity in transitional China.
In the National Review, Ann Noonan of the Laogai Research Foundation suggested that it was "hardly a far-fetched hypothesis" that the government staged the incident or allowed it to proceed to discredit Falun Gong, as the government vowed to crush the practice before the eightieth anniversary celebrations of the Communist Party in July.
The fourth hypothesis emphasizes politics and blames bad economic policies and harmful intervention instituted by government after government.
Causation is notoriously difficult to prove and only in 1975, after the press reported on new evidence that tended to support Gal's hypothesis, did the government finally issue an official warning.
As it hovered near bankruptcy, Alitalia, Italy's flagship air carrier, gave some hints on Tuesday of a turnaround plan that it referred to as a "hypothesis," as the government considered offering tax breaks to the entire airline industry.
