Sentence examples for incentive to inflate from inspiring English sources

Under this structure, contractors have an incentive to inflate the number of services children require, said Julie Berry Cullen, an economist who has studied special-education spending.

Some critics complained that allowing issuers to pay for ratings gave agencies an incentive to inflate them, to please their clients.

But just as local officials have an incentive to inflate numbers, so Beijing has had reason recently to understate them: it wants to slow the red-hot economy.

The agency recommended changing the markup to a flat rate per transaction, instead of giving dealers an incentive to inflate rates for some consumers.

They can give executives an incentive to inflate their company's earnings or make irresponsibly optimistic forecasts to keep their stock prices high and their paychecks lavish.

They had been told they'd be paid for each answer they reported getting right, thus creating an incentive to inflate their scores.

The higher concessions created "incentives to inflate appraised value," Mr. Stevens testified.

Consequently, both parties may have incentives to inflate demand (from the buyer's perspective) or order quantity (from the supplier's perspective) to account for the yield risk and avoid lost sales.

With regard to debt, we control for the inception of long-term debt through the variable Financing, which is expected to be positively associated with discretionary accruals, as debtors face incentives to inflate earnings to reduce their perceived riskiness (Ashbaugh et al. 2003).

In addition to political and economic incentives to inflate landmine numbers, surveys have been partial and sometimes of poor quality with regard to the critical evaluation of reports and over-reporting.

The program allocates grain to students every month their attendance exceeds 80% , creating an incentive for teachers to inflate attendance to benefit certain students.