Stopping the Syria Contagion

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble. The current boom has seen contagion

Despite the lack of significant financial contagion risk, a renewed Greek crisis, stemming from a lasting and serious breakdown of negotiations between the new government and EU institutions, would constitute a major problem for European cooperation. The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.

In an increasingly integrated world economy, the margin for error by both market actors and Governments was much smaller and the risk of contagion to other economies was greater.

The European Central Bank s outright monetary transactions scheme provides an important backstop for debt sustainability. And a banking union, once completed, should contain the risk of financial crisis and contagion.

Special rules also apply in certain activities with a higher risk of disease and contagion, where more thorough medical checks are permitted (art. 325 et seq. of the Labour Code).

There's emotional contagion that takes place in human populations.

And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion. A bubble forms when the contagion rate goes up for ideas that support a bubble.

15. Market behaviour was often characterized by information asymmetries and contagion effects.

This systemic risk a financial shock leading to severe economic contagion was supposed to be reduced by securitization. Financial globalization meant that banks no longer held assets like mortgages on their books, but packaged them in asset backed securities that were sold to investors in capital markets worldwide, thereby distributing risk more widely.

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But the risk sharing inherent to Islamic finance made such instruments more resistant to the first round of financial contagion that hit in 2008. Leading economists, such as Harvard University s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk sharing over the conventional bias in favor of debt instruments.

Greece has no good options, but a serious contagion risk remains to be contained in order to prevent derailment of the fiscal and growth oriented reforms in Italy and Spain. In the face of high systemic risk, private capital is leaving banks and the sovereign debt markets, causing governments borrowing costs to rise and bank capitalization to fall.

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In this combustible environment, policymakers are desperately using various vehicles including the ECB, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Financial Stability Facility in an attempt to stem the financial panic, contagion, and risk of recession. But are officials going about it in the right way?

On the Y axis is the cumulative instances of contagion, and on the X axis is the time.

And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them, but they have these great contagion benefits.

Second, countries must move together. Otherwise, one country s restructuring will heighten expectations that others will follow, giving rise to contagion.

Bitter experience has shown us that instability in one State can have a powerful contagion effect far beyond its borders.

'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.

If half of a community sleeps under a net, the other half also benefits because the contagion of the disease spread.

25. Ms. Djatmiko (Indonesia) asked Mr. Buira whether dealing with currency crises in a more timely fashion would prevent their contagion.

In both cases financial stability and cyber security the risk of contagion creates a situation in which a wedge can form between private incentives and social risks. Admittedly, progress in the technology sector overall often produces huge social welfare gains, which arguably outstrip those produced by all other sectors in recent decades.

The advantage of a par bond is that Greece s creditors banks, insurance companies, and pension funds would be able and allowed to continue valuing their Greek bonds at 100 cents on the euro, thereby avoiding massive losses on their balance sheets. That, in turn, would sharply contain the risk of financial contagion.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

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The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

But the main beneficiary would be Germany. And, in order for the euro to fall far enough, the risk of default in Greece would need to be so large, and the contagion to sovereign spreads of PIIGS so severe that the widening of those spreads would cause a double dip eurozone recession before currency depreciation could yield benefits.

The euro s appreciation lays bare the huge collateral damage that Europe s rescue policy has caused. The measures taken so far have opened channels of contagion from Europe s crisis ridden peripheral economies to the still sound economies of Europe s core, placing the latter s taxpayers and pensioners at great financial risk, while hindering long term recovery in the troubled countries themselves.

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There's another risk, and they respond less to this existing risk.

It would seem that bid offer spreads are falling, which we might regard as positive. But volatility has risen, as has cross market contagion.

The report recognises that Latvia had the biggest successes in elimination of general risk, economic policy risk and banking sector's risk.

They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

Policy advice that was guided by the Washington consensus was unable to stem the economic decline in East Asia or protect distant countries from contagion.

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