Another common reason that customers use multiple brands is structural barriers that distort demand.
Dyck and Zingales posit that bubbles distort the relationship between companies and the media.
They distort incentives, and scare investors in other industries who fear they may be next.
To call this a business, however, is to distort the meaning of the word.
Subsidies distort and disrupt free market structures and business incentives through regulatory interference and overreach precedents.
But in practice they don't, because subtle mechanical effects distort the regularity of the oscillations.
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Transfer pricing used by multinationals to shift profits around the globe may distort trade figures.
That subsidy has now been lessened, which is a good thing of course: subsidies distort markets.
Traditional speakers can distort the way instruments sound, often making music seem flat, narrow and tight.
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Just as with product prices, rapid increases in asset prices can distort the allocation of resources.
The best sort of budget seeks to distort private choices as little as possible.
Better yet, the drivers don't seem to distort aggressively with the volume jacked up.
Unfortunately, Republicans continue to push their tired, false claims to distort and distract the American people.
However laudable that aim, using it to determine vice-chancellors' pay might distort admissions decisions.
Critics of wage subsidies usually cite two drawbacks: they distort incentives and they are expensive.
In France and Spain too, consolidation is stymied by specialist banks that distort competition.
Some people contend that deferred taxes distort cash flow calculations, as they are not necessarily recurring items.
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Economists dislike them not because they relieve people of their money, but because they distort people's behaviour.
These figures are not affected by Mexican inflation accounting adjustments, which can distort earnings (see story, p. 57).
Zero-rate policies encourage indiscriminate use of credit and distort the process by which alternative demands compete for funds.
In this war, the enemy's attempt to distort and obscure its identity is its primary line of defense.
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Government policies shape markets, turn winners into losers and, unfortunately, can distort the invisible hand of the market.
It starts to distort the value of evidence and therefore I think it could, and probably does, devalue evidence.
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They are not good if they involve government subsidies that distort market forces.
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Could the increase use of these standards distort trade and inhibit sustainable growth?
The problem with tax breaks and other subsidies, however, is that they complicate the tax system and distort incentives.
Those preferences complicate the code and often needlessly distort family and business decisions.
In the process, the scientific controversy would distort the policy response and expose the public to potentially serious harm.
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But new technology provides a way to highlight the proteins that distort communication between brain cells in Alzheimer's patients.
Big telescope mirrors tend to sag and distort under the influence of gravity.
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