I think CEO pay IS artificially set above market-clearing levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

"Prices would certainly rise to the market-clearing level," said Hamilton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gas Tax Holiday: A Good Political Issue, But Not Such a Great Idea - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

But if legislation reduces the market-clearing wage, the result is a labor surplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandated Benefits and Wage Rigidity: The Effects of the "Fair Share Health Care Fund Act", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Investors don't trust the value of bad debts enough to offer market-clearing prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1% Panic] Reference

At least it charges a market-clearing fee, so there's no waiting list for new members.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Story of Efficient Regulation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The goal: avoid foreclosures and slow the fall of home prices to market-clearing levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Houses Find a Bottom] Reference

"There is no reason not to find market-clearing prices and sell these apartments," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooklyn Penthouse Units Slated for Auction] Reference

Mr. Becker says that the market-clearing process, so important to recovery, is well underway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Is No Time to Give Up on Markets] Reference

With 1,000,000 of that skill level available, the market-clearing wage is some fraction of X.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Does Not Speak For Me] Reference

So, the NYT didn't stop charging, they just lowered their price to its market-clearing level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

And if there is such a surplus can't we conclude that the pay is above market-clearing levels?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

But there is a market-clearing price for these securities, and everybody on the street knows it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » 2008 » September] Reference

The solution to this problem is simply stated: Home values have to reach a market-clearing level.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Vote No Confidence in Congress] Reference

With 100,000 people of a particular skill level available for work, the market-clearing wage is X.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Does Not Speak For Me] Reference

This injects too much uncertainty into the market for it to generate a valid market-clearing price.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's a Huge Price for Violating Mortgage Contracts] Reference

Economics 101 teaches that setting a price below the market-clearing level will produce a shortage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Walmart must be paying a market-clearing wage as they have employed thousands at these "low wages.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economics of Wage Labor, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

At the market-clearing price, there are more people employing cleaning agencies than at any other price.    From Wordnik.com.  [A tale of one protest] Reference

"What made that crisis work out with market-clearing prices was regulatory intervention," Mr. Barrack says.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Investors] Reference

For housing, the market-clearing forces indicate a fall in housing prices and a slowdown in home production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine for an Ailing Economy] Reference

The disadvantage of such a system is that it would be difficult to establish a true market-clearing price for organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exploitation” of the Poor is a Poor Reason to Ban Organ Markets:] Reference

How come nobody ever mentions the single most obvious alternative to the draft, namely paying a market-clearing salary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

This is completely different from a commodity market, where supply and demand balance at whatever is the market-clearing price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

If you're a dogmatic believer in market-clearing, you might say, "No problem, wages will fall to prevent a rise in unemployment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Needs the Accidental Theorist Back, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

So...for every gallon of gas we consume at the market-clearing price, we will pay less in taxes, leaving more to go into Iran's pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Republicans: Give More Money to Iran, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

CEO compensation does not affect inflation or unemployment, because CEO compensation is not artificially set above market-clearing levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

As positions in a fund trade more frequently, investors can compare market-clearing valuations for positions with a fund's own assessments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Private Equity's New Fear Gauge] Reference

"All of these are attempts to clear what is otherwise a market-clearing process, and we hope that it is successful in unleashing that," Farrell added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principal Cuts May Be Coming For Troubled Homeowners, Yet Questions Remain About Program's Effectiveness] Reference

Acquisitions of troubled financial institutions by less troubled ones have been propped up by taxpayers, delaying the establishment of market-clearing prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeking Rational Exuberance] Reference

But if American wages get stuck above global market-clearing levels, as in the 1930s, the result could well be something approaching Depression-era levels of unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Leopold: New York Times Blames Workers for Unemployment?] Reference

"But if American wages get stuck above global market-clearing levels, as in the 1930s, the result could well be something approaching Depression-era levels of unemployment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Leopold: Wall Street's 10 Biggest Lies of 2009] Reference

Mr Kloppers later told ABC TV that the move to market-clearing prices was the only way to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

What players get paid is a matter of industry custom and market-clearing economic agreement.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Before the economy can truly recover, he said housing prices need to hit "market-clearing" prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [WCNC - News - World] Reference

The "market-clearing process" means allowing the traditional housing forces to return to the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inman News - The first word in real estate.] Reference

TBTF means that capitalism's vital market-clearing function can avoided if one is rich or powerful enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

But if the government intervenes to prop up overleveraged homeowners, they discourage this necessary market-clearing process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other McCain] Reference

This would represent a real market-clearing price for the monopoly, and would set the optimum balance between disclosure v trade secrets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias] Reference