These are essentially refinancing mechanisms.

Sixth, rising government debt ratios will eventually lead to increases in real interest rates that may crowd out private spending and even lead to sovereign refinancing risk.

Similarly, positioning the IMF as a general risk insurer by introducing precautionary credit lines above normal access limits would be compatible neither with its mission to provide financial assistance on deliberately non risk adjusted terms nor with the current system of refinancing short term Fund credit through risk free official reserves.

Indeed, Deutsche Bank has already stopped participating in refinancing operations.

Moreover, not forbidding indirect purchases should be seen primarily as a means of permitting banks that buy government bonds to pledge them as collateral for refinancing operations, while bearing the full investment risk.

The ESM should be sufficient to deal with the refinancing needs of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.

Without additional refinancing mechanisms, there would be a sharp decrease in flows of official development assistance after 2015.

Nonetheless, the ECB has provided large amounts of liquidity to the financial system, indirectly softening the pressure on government debt refinancing.

The ECB s long term refinancing operation enabled Spanish and Italian banks to buy their own countries bonds and earn a large spread.

The polarization of borrowing costs has politically explosive distributional effects Germany is borrowing and refinancing its existing debt at artificially low interest rates.

With international investors no longer willing to finance this deficit, and even shying away from refinancing existing Greek debt, only three possibilities remain.

To the extent that banks are, by far, the ECB s main instrument for non standard refinancing, this message is particularly important in Europe.

The exemption for secured debt undoubtedly concerns mainly the refinancing loans that the ECB has extended to commercial banks against increasingly weak collateral.

The economy grew, but mainly because American families were persuaded to take on more debt, refinancing their mortgages and spending some of the proceeds.

If this continues for two more years as it has for the past three, the stock of refinancing loans in Germany will disappear altogether.

As a result, refinancing of mortgages will grind to a halt, leaving no money to draw out of housing to sustain Americans consumption binge.

Indeed, Italy boasted the lowest deficit to GDP ratio in the eurozone, and the Italian government had no problem refinancing at attractive interest rates.

The ECB has been providing virtually all of its refinancing credit to the eurozone s five crisis stricken countries Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.

Moreover, it has provided loans to the banking sector, recently launching a three year refinancing operation that generated demand from eurozone banks for 489 billion.

The bank s overnight deposit facility rose from 250 billion to 400 billion just after the extraordinary refinancing operation and to 480 billion in recent days.

In doing so, however, it put itself in peril, because the only way to implement the shift was by lowering the collateral requirements for refinancing credit.

Indeed, some experts, too, believe that the crisis can be resolved simply by refinancing banks, and that the impact on the real economy will be relatively limited.

The ECB shifted its refinancing credit and money creation to the tune of 900 billion toward southern Europe and Ireland, as measured by the Eurosystem s Target balances.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Two thirds of all refinancing loans within the eurozone were granted within the GIPS countries, despite the fact that these countries account for only 18 of eurozone GDP.

At the same time, the European Central Bank unleashed its 1 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) long term refinancing operation, which pulled the European banking system back from the brink.

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.

public provision of credit to the solvent parts of the corporate sector in order to avoid a short term debt refinancing crisis for solvent but illiquid corporations and small businesses

The European Central Bank managed to relieve an incipient credit crunch through its long term refinancing operation (LTRO), which lent over a trillion euros to eurozone banks at one percent.

Awaiting that restructuring, financial institutions could not perform as usual, which impeded financial intermediation and called into question plans, relations, and contracts such as corporate and residential investment or refinancing.

According to a recent report by Deutsche Bank, for example, borrowers will have difficulty refinancing hundreds of billions of dollars of commercial real estate loans that will mature after 2010.

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

Indeed, she had no choice but to concede and agree to far reaching changes to the EU s new fiscal compact that will ease refinancing of the crisis countries and their banks.

One consequence of the ECB s large scale long term refinancing operation (LTRO) has been that Italian banks are once again buying Italian government bonds, and Spanish banks are buying Spanish bonds.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

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If German banks drop out of the refinancing business, the European Central Bank will lose the direct control over the German economy that it used to have via its interest rate policy.

And while there is moral hazard risk, there is also meltdown risk.

From this followed an official obligation to treat all types of risk in the monetary union bank risk or government risk as identical.

The point at which credit risk becomes exchange rate redenomination risk is ambiguous.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

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