House lawmakers have re-introduced the Innovation Act, a bill that would impose new requirements on patent holders and shift incentives to deter them from filing frivolous lawsuits.
The bill has stronger incentives to deter wage discrimination by strengthening penalties for equal pay violations, provides greater protections against retaliation against workers and empowers women to negotiate for equal pay.
For instance, certain financial incentives seem to deter prosocial impulses, a phenomenon called reward undermining, Dr. Huettel said.
The only positive effect of scoring-rule-based incentives was to deter the use of very small probabilities.
But in the long run the trade will be stopped only if incentives are generated to deter the rural poor from providing the raw material.
Although both of us have published research on how leaders can influence the outbreak and conduct of war, we noted that in the case of North Korea, factors that leaders cannot realistically change or avoid — such as geography and military capabilities — make the prospect of war so unappealing that leaders have incentives to try to deter the other side, rather than escalate.
Indeed, for many of NATO's new members, the primary incentive to join was to deter aggression by, and deflect pressure from, Moscow.
In the recent reporting on individual cases of collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) that went bad, what's been most striking has been the absence of the kinds of incentives one would expect to deter lenders from giving money to people who can't pay it back, and investors from purchasing securities based on the soundness of those loans.
At home, the UK faces dissolution pressures if Scotland seeks to salvage its EU membership, while the EU has every incentive to make Brexit a painful experience to deter other defectors, making the outcome of negotiations difficult to predict.
Some of the most compelling incentives yet invented have been put in place to deter crime.
