Mai says it is a risk she won t take

A failure to take concrete action would risk breeding disillusionment.

Let us not take that risk.

So I decided to take a risk and go to Europe.

If you tell someone it will reduce their risk then they re more likely to take the risk.

Understandably, investors have interpreted all of this as a green light to take more risk.

Hard work never killed anyone. But why take the risk?!

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

Ratings that pretend to take into account systemic risk might prove as dangerous as ratings that ignore such risk.

Opponents of prudential oversight of systemic risk take two different positions.

But Europeans, while having launched national recovery plans, remain unwilling to take on a similar debt risk.

This reduces incentives to take risk, though it does not eliminate them.

take the lead in large projects. The state, however, does not take on a greater proportion of the risk than what the private sector investors of the project are prepared to take.

Money market funds perverse incentives to take on excessive risk remain largely intact.

Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take.

Patients will normally have to take a combination of these medicines in order to combat the risk of rejection.

Accordingly, Iraq argues that the Panel can only take exposure to risk into consideration if the risk actually results in damage or harm.

From a regulator s perspective, this is a powerful argument for requiring higher capital to constrain the risk that banks can take on.

This is because Krugman refuses to take seriously Keynes s crucial distinction between risk and uncertainty.

According to the WHO, the precautionary principle is a risk management policy applied in circumstances with a high degree of scientific uncertainty, reflecting the need to take action for a potentially serious risk without awaiting the results of scientific research.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

These audits are risk oriented and are designed to ensure the collection of any tax due. However the audits will also take into account the risk of terrorist financing.

Both sides need political leaders willing to take real risks for peace, including the risk of being killed. After all, ordinary soldiers take this risk, so why should political leaders who can do much greater good or ill be immune to it?

The problem may be that there are not many investors who want to take a long position on oil and Nigerian credit risk simultaneously.

Commending the courage and commitment of those who take part in humanitarian operations, often at great personal risk,

Both sides need political leaders willing to take real risks for peace, including the risk of being killed.

In the short run, QE3 will lead investors to take on risk, and will stimulate modest asset reflation.

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

Managers take more risks in search of higher returns to justify their pay, which at some point will lead to risk mispricing, and a crisis.

If systemic risk can cause this kind of cascading sequential imbalance, then the sovereign needs to be alert, competent at identifying rising systemic risk, and able to take corrective action early.

Not even America s IBM which prides itself on stability wants to take the risk of offering defined benefit schemes.

The aim, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said again in December, is to push investors to take more risk.

One option would be to take no action because there is no experience to assess the degree of risk.

Chinese leaders have been extremely risk averse in their forays into international financial affairs, and, on the eve of a leadership transition (expected to take place a year from now), no senior official dares to risk his political prospects by advocating bold and controversial action.

It reflects their intention to take a holistic approach in identifying and putting into action complex multidisciplinary disaster risk reduction measures over the next 10 years.

And the longer America s politicians take to resolve the debt ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.

Only the state is reliable enough to take on all debt, which private institutions are too risk intolerant to hold.

calling on all States concerned to take appropriate practical measures in order to reduce the risk of accidental nuclear war

But failure is not always a bad thing a banker operating an all equity bank, with no need ever to repay investors, would be likelier to take unwarranted risk. The need to repay or roll over debt imposes discipline, giving the banker a stronger incentive to manage risk carefully.

If they take away the monetary and fiscal stimulus too soon when private demand remains shaky there is a risk of falling back into recession and deflation.

Maybe you're scared you'll get a fatwa issued against you, like the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists? Or would you rather Abderrahmane be the one to take that risk?

Did companies that compensated their traders (and not just their CEOs) more highly take more risk? Was financial institutions assumption of excessive risk the result of incompetence or stupidity, or was it a rational response to the implicit guarantee offered by the government?

Investors around the world would take on Japanese GDP risk in return for an expected yield, just as with catastrophe bonds.

We need to take additional measures to reduce the level of systemic risk including limiting the size of our largest banks.

The Group would take up the issue of threat and risk assessment, which the report did not address, in informal consultations.