Germany s Five Shocks

So expect big shocks.

That might also help mitigate the impact of larger shocks and increase the net return potential during severe shocks (though it might also lower the return potential for more mild shocks).

Third, financial shocks will be worse than expected.

Adjustment, support to trade and trade related shocks

Moreover, energy and food price shocks can be both large and largely unpredictable, while the speed of price changes tends to increase with big shocks.

This makes economies significantly less vulnerable to external shocks.

China is thus far more vulnerable to external shocks.

And the lack of shock shocks me even more...

There are no great shocks but various declines and crises.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

Debt sustainability is also affected by vulnerability to external shocks.

Barring unexpected shocks, I believe that China s inflation may peak soon.

A sensible approach could be to hedge against intermediate level shocks.

Countries have accumulated large reserves in order to insure against shocks.

Undercover investigations have repeatedly shown animals being beaten and given electric shocks.

But it also includes physical resilience and the ability to withstand shocks.

External shocks brought about by climate change will directly affect advanced economies.

This elevated temperature heat shocks non fecal bacteria and suppresses their growth.

This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

They are also the most vulnerable to the shocks of the financial crisis.

In the future, climate change can be expected to cause more supply shocks.

European experience suggests that large scale systemic shocks call for greater financial support.

Four decades have passed since the oil price shocks of the 1970 s.

But the decreased flexibility in response to economic shocks will certainly test it.

Of course, the years since 1987 have not been without big macroeconomic shocks.

The SRM framework includes interventions that focus on managing risks before shocks occur.

They are facing the argument that the United States monetary union works much better because there is a large federal budget to smooth the impact of asymmetric shocks that is, shocks to individual states.

But, even if we accept that conclusion, we are left to wonder what caused large shocks to uncertainty and to liquidity financial risk in recent years, and how reliably such shocks can be predicted.

The goal is not to absorb shocks but to reduce income gaps across regions.

Indeed, many now apparently assume that their countries have become immune to future shocks.

The most immediate challenge is to safeguard the financial system s stability against external shocks.

Tax transfers should also act as an automatic stabilizer in the case of asymmetric shocks.

In the aftermath of the oil price shocks, energy security policy has had four components.

More often than not, however, the shocks have been ideological, with no basis in science.

By and large, these developments enhance an economy s resilience to shocks and prevent economic collapse.

Moreover, external shocks, policy mistakes, and political instability could disrupt even the best laid plans.

Small, open economies are naturally somewhat specialized, which leaves them vulnerable to shocks and volatility.

YanniKouts Suicide of a 77 year old man this morning in Syntagma Sq shocks Greece.

Globalization has increased the vulnerability of the developing and transition economies to adverse external shocks.

That Committee rightly considered lack of economic diversification as an indicator of the exposure to shocks and recognized that small countries tended to be more vulnerable to external shocks than large ones (E 2005 33, paras. 26 and 27).

The bad news is that Asia seems to be learning little from repeated external demand shocks.

In these circumstances, immunity from external shocks or decoupling, as it is often called seems fanciful.

Since then, many of China s inherent strengths have been sapped by all too frequent external shocks.

Third, the region is already living in extreme poverty, so adverse shocks push it toward calamity.