In others, tax and regulatory incentives encouraged over-leveraging of companies and decisions to bear extraordinary and unjustified risk.

In May 2013, U.S. Senator John McCain introduced legislation that would encourage, through regulatory incentives, programmers and distributors to offer a la carte services.

Finally, in 2003, congress passed the Special Purpose Vehicles Act, allowing banks to sell their bank loans at a discount and giving them regulatory incentives that made it easier to book the losses.

Suburban municipalities can offer tax breaks, specialized zoning, and regulatory incentives to attract industrial land users to their area, such as City of Industry, California.

Consumer advocates say that the current system should be kept largely intact, with the possible addition of special regulatory incentives to help move safety-related innovations into the marketplace.

High energy production costs, coupled with the advantages of wind power as a renewable, widely available energy source, have led several countries to establish regulatory incentives and direct financial investments to stimulate wind power generation.

It has also been recognised that greater regulatory incentives need to be given for SMEs to adopt ISO 14001 or EMAS.

The challenge we are all facing here is to find the right balance between regulatory and market-based incentives and penalties.

Clean coal technology regulatory incentives.

But defenders of the regulations said that the court's decision, while justified in light of the agency's negligence, would remove regulatory incentives on the broadcasters to fair coverage of political campaigns and other controversial subjects.