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.

While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.

There were some who foresaw danger. The Swedish economist Axel Leijonhufvud foresaw asset price inflation houses in particular and a worsening of credit quality.

But the answer is not a low quality investment binge led by government or fuelled by easy credit we know the consequences of that.

Thus, the real issue in China is not the volume of shadow credit, but its quality, and the banking system s capacity to absorb potential losses.

Increasingly, they depend on the provision of other services, inter alia credit advance, quality control and standard setting, advertising, management of inventories, and after sale servicing.

In the last two years, bank credit has become the main source of capital in China a risky situation, given the low quality and inadequacy of bank capital.

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So those governments whose credit is still unshaken and whose assets are still the benchmarks of quality for the world economy should be creating a lot more of them.

Recognition of diverse credit quality is a step back into the nineteenth century world, and at the same time forward to a more market oriented and less distorting currency policy.

Not only are these banks now large relative to some national economies, but the quality of government credit is now in question across the eurozone periphery up to and including Italy.

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A financial consultant firm has advised that the United Nations could expect to receive a credit rating in a range between the AA (very high grade, high quality) and A (upper medium grade) categories.

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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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