They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

Clarifying ultimate responsibility for credit quality and risk would also reduce intermediation costs by eliminating the need to resort to informal channels, such as credit guarantee and trust companies.

The immediate causes are well known. They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

Isolating and further constraining a portion of the banking system, so that the channels of credit intermediation are less prone to complete and simultaneous breakdown, also seems likely.

The program may stimulate some productive credit intermediation, but it will not make a significant dent in what will remain one of the major obstacles to robust economic recovery.

Supply means sale, transfer, offer for sale, loan, gift or intermediation.

Emphasizing the promotion of programmes aimed at financial intermediation, with a view to ensuring the access of rural women to credit and to agricultural inputs and implements and, in particular, to easing collateral requirements for access to finance by women,

Emphasizing the promotion of programmes aimed at financial intermediation with a view to ensuring the access of rural women to credit and to agricultural inputs and implements and, in particular, to easing collateral requirements for access to finance by women,

While the specifics vary by economic region and sector (housing, labor markets, credit intermediation, etc.), it is a combination with a common and unfortunate outcome it inhibits economies ability to grow, and thus to overcome debt overhangs in an orderly way.

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Through financial intermediation, these government securities helped finance the western consumption and speculative boom that collapsed in 2008.

The UK example is important but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one. The program may stimulate some productive credit intermediation, but it will not make a significant dent in what will remain one of the major obstacles to robust economic recovery.

Nothing about financial intermediation justifies allowing banks to distort the economy and endanger the public as much as they do.

While Europe has succeeded in stabilizing its sovereign bond markets, financial intermediation for small and medium size enterprises remains highly disrupted.

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The economy can then use household savings (with appropriate financial intermediation) to finance corporate and government investment, rather than the US government.

But the opposite is also true when an import boom ends, measured GDP must drop considerably, because much less intermediation is needed.

Given the central role of financial intermediation in the current crisis, the government should instead expedite the restructuring process through bankruptcy law.

Modernization of distribution services is becoming crucial in promoting domestic competitiveness and supply capacity, especially given the intermediation role of the sector.

There would be a decrease in economic value added from intermediation, and loans to small and medium size enterprises would be badly affected.

But if the system of financial intermediation collapses in universal bankruptcy, producers of tradable goods will be unable to get financing to expand.

In the case of enterprises operating in the informal economy, the lack of a documented track record excludes them from formal financial intermediation.

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This way public credit registries and credit bureaux may be able to operate and provide adequate and up to date electronic credit information.

Banks and credit card companies have become much more cautious about extending credit.

Credit histories cannot be shared, because a credit bureau is just getting started.

The supply of credit, in other words, resulted from the demand for credit.

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