Stopping the Syria Contagion

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

While financial contagion today is limited to bank interaction, the EU s measures have broadened the channels for contagion to include government budgets.

BRUSSELS The fear of contagion has spread over Europe.

d. limit the contagion effect of any crisis and

Thus, the contagion went well beyond the torturers limited circle.

Talk of haircuts for private investors immediately triggers concerns about contagion.

And Spain is doing all it can to avoid the contagion.

That, in turn, would sharply contain the risk of financial contagion.

There has been much concern about financial contagion between Europe and America.

Finally, adverse contagion is extending beyond the 17 countries in the eurozone.

Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.

But contagion rates depend on patterns of thinking, which are difficult to judge.

It is certainly the case that contagion will rage after any Greek restructuring.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion.

ROME The euro contagion triggered by Greece s sovereign debt crisis has now infected Italy.

Will there be contagion to vulnerable countries in Europe and elsewhere? Not just yet.

But today, Africa s pay as you go practices are a powerful defense against financial contagion.

A bubble forms when the contagion rate goes up for ideas that support a bubble.

Anger at these profits and bonuses only tends to increase the contagion of the story.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.

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This allowed managers to pursue more long term goals and proved effective in blocking contagion effects.

We don t know yet whether political contagion in the Middle East will spread to other countries.

The deficiency of IFRS is that it does not mitigate systemic contagion resulting from asset price movements.

A number of physicians began to suspect contagion and hygiene as causal factors in spreading puerperal fever.

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

For starters, Chinese officials should be under no illusion that the country will be immune to financial contagion.

This systemic risk a financial shock leading to severe economic contagion was supposed to be reduced by securitization.

Those who claim that contagion from a Greek exit would drag others into the crisis are also in denial.

Such narratives, especially those fueled by accessible human interest stories, are the thought viruses whose contagion drives the economy.

The problem is not another financial meltdown in an emerging market, with the predictable contagion that engulfs neighboring countries.

That actually is the true nature of the distribution of humor when you don't have the contagion of humor.

It opted for delay in the hope that the eurozone s most vulnerable members would reinforce their defenses against Greek contagion.

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

Appropriate use of official resources, including for recapitalization of eurozone banks, would be needed to limit collateral damage and contagion.

But such contagion risk is trivial compared to the wildfire that could be ignited by imposing losses on small depositors.

Moreover, the contagion to the sovereign spreads of the other PIIGS would be massive, tipping over several of these economies.

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

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.

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The positive growth outlook, following an estimated 5.1 GDP gain in 2007, is presented as a reliable defense against external contagion.

The Greek and Irish bailouts are only temporary palliatives they do nothing to curtail indebtedness, and they have not stopped contagion.

Contagion soon spread across East Asia, with the ripple effects of serial currency devaluations reaching as far as Russia and Brazil.