credible commitment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcredibleandcommitment
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credible
adjective
uk/ˈkred.ə.bəl/us/ˈkred.ə.bəl/
able to be believed ...
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commitment
noun
uk/kəˈmɪt.mənt/us/kəˈmɪt.mənt/
a promise or firm decision to ...
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So, for example, the desire to establish acrediblecommitmentis the basic motivation behind the decision to create independent central banks.
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The only prediction possible is that multimarket contact makescrediblecommitmentmore likely, and for a broader range of discount factors.
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This provides us with a natural experiment for asking when and why international monetary agreements are more effective as sources ofcrediblecommitment.
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Those new firms will be ready to adopt pollution control if citizens can give acrediblecommitment.
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In this case, there is a greater need for governments to make acrediblecommitmentin order to address the resulting time-inconsistency problem.
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A trade agreement, on the other hand, can be interpreted as acrediblecommitmentto freer trade.
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Given the security concerns of rival states and the high level of distrust,crediblecommitmentmust be a crucial element in bilateral bargaining.
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This is partly a function of employing a two-period model, and one can get around thecrediblecommitmentproblem by infinitely repeating the game.
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Firstly, there is the argument that the problem ofcrediblecommitmentaffects some policy areas more than others.
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In part these associations served as acrediblecommitment.
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The state has yet to demonstrate acrediblecommitmentto reform its interventionist style.
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This is reducing incentives to conservation, affectingcrediblecommitmentof inputs from stakeholders.
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Each country would gain if it could make acrediblecommitmentto pollute more.
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For example, they may want to make acrediblecommitmentin order to pursue certain policy objectives more efficiently.
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In this paper, we consider a similar situation, with nocrediblecommitmentmechanism to bind future actions.
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Time is central, for instance, to large and growing literatures on problems of political uncertainty, time inconsistency andcrediblecommitment.
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First, lifetime contracts embody a notion ofcrediblecommitment: under ranking (31), agents prefer resource-saving transfers as long as no regime switch is allowed during the life-cycle.
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This is a likely situation, and hence the polluter has an incentive to abide by the cooperative strategy, and hence gives acrediblecommitmentto cooperation.
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This institution needs to have widely accepted leadership in the region, acrediblecommitmentto poverty reduction, and the ability to work pari passu with others.
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It may be that the reputational hypothesis should be tested by looking for a critical level of political instability above whichcrediblecommitmentdoes not occur.
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