Sovereign Environmental Risk

Risk premiums widened, and the eurozone was divided into creditor and debtor countries.

Intelligent cooperation that avoids moral hazard should be able to prevent panic, reduce risk premiums, and permit fuller use of resources.

Growth has resumed, financial risk premia have fallen sharply, foreign investment is picking up, and exports are booming.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging market economies.

But higher risk premia elsewhere force the rest of the eurozone to cut spending, thus reducing their demand for these funds.

The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.

It would be unfortunate if governments requiring financial institutions to be more prudent in managing risk were at the same time asked to turn a blind eye to sovereign risk.

The report estimates that a 10 reduction in the productive capacity of soils and freshwater areas alone could lead to a reduction in the trade balance equivalent to more than 4 of GDP.

As a result, sovereign risk today is a greater problem in advanced economies than in most emerging market economies.

But it is clear that in an environment of slow growth, low interest rates, and high risk premia, many banks must struggle to survive.

BRUSSELS The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high and variable risk premiums that its peripheral countries now must pay on their public debt.

A sovereign default in Europe will never be a mere value to be plugged into some statistical risk model.

We must then break the perverse feedback loop between banking risk and sovereign risk that is at the heart of the euro crisis.

In general, however, opacity is a defining feature of most SWFs, exacerbating the risks that they pose.

But sounder fiscal policy might lead to even higher inflows as the country s external balance and sovereign risk outlook improve.

The third response is to reduce sovereign risk by establishing a system of surveillance and mutual guarantees between the eurozone countries.

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NEW YORK Today s swollen fiscal deficits and public debt are fueling concerns about sovereign risk in many advanced economies.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 drove up risk premia and triggered panic in financial markets, weakening assets in the United States and elsewhere, and threatening to provoke a credit crunch.

This heightened uncertainty could spill over to economic activity in the rest of the European Union through adverse feedback loops between sovereign risk and the banking system.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums for financing their government debt.

In fact, lowering the benchmark rates for risk free assets changes the distribution of the risk premia on risky assets, making it too low when asset bubbles are forming and too high when they burst.

Risk premiums started rising above benign levels in 2009, and then more strongly in 2011 2012, while capital flight became rampant in 2011.

If the EU wants a monetary union in which sovereign debt is relatively homogenous with respect to risk, fiscal discipline must be similarly homogenous.

Finally, sovereign risk is rising consider the troubles faced by investors in Dubai, Greece, and other emerging markets and advanced economies.

National risk premia would then disappear, and German savers would have no problem investing their savings in the eurozone s periphery, knowing that the German government would ultimately underwrite these countries government bonds.

Even if this sounds unfair, it is logical to expect rating agencies, which had been lax in evaluating credit risk, now to be rigorous in assessing all forms of risk, including sovereign risk.

Meanwhile, the economic consequences of environmental degradation can be severe.

NAIROBI Until the global financial crisis erupted four years ago, sovereign bonds had traditionally been viewed as reliable, virtually risk free investments.

(d) We call upon international financial and banking institutions to consider enhancing the transparency of risk rating mechanisms. Sovereign risk assessments, made by the private sector should maximize the use of strict, objective and transparent parameters, which can be facilitated by high quality data and analysis

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But the declining value of their sovereign debt and the size of that debt relative to that of Europe s smaller distressed countries implies much greater erosion of banks capital base, raising the additional risk of liquidity problems and further economic damage.

Who would have believed at this time last year that the fiscal pact adopted in March would have been possible? And, despite fluctuations, has there not been a considerable reduction in risk premiums for problem countries, without adding to the financing costs of donor countries?

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And, because much of the risk is borne by banks (rather than by, say, hedge funds), which play a central role in lubricating the payments system, a sovereign debt crisis can cause widespread harm.

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If heavily indebted countries have to pay heavy risk premiums, their debt becomes unsustainable.

If systemic risk can cause this kind of cascading sequential imbalance, then the sovereign needs to be alert, competent at identifying rising systemic risk, and able to take corrective action early.

BEIJING While parts of the world are dealing with the aftermath of the financial crisis or an emerging sovereign debt crisis, China is coping with the risk of overheating and or an asset bubble.

When non standard measures are required because of loss of confidence in sovereign debt, such messages must seek to avoid the measures failure by highlighting the risk of major additional difficulties in the future.

Risks to global financial stability have eased as the economic recovery has gained steam, but concerns about advanced country sovereign risks could undermine gains and prolong the collapse of credit.

The sovereign debt and banking crises have become even more closely interlinked as banks bought greater amounts of their home countries sovereign debt.