Stopping the Syria Contagion

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

The deficiency of IFRS is that it does not mitigate systemic contagion resulting from asset price movements.

While financial contagion today is limited to bank interaction, the EU s measures have broadened the channels for contagion to include government budgets.

Those who claim that contagion from a Greek exit would drag others into the crisis are also in denial.

BRUSSELS The fear of contagion has spread over Europe.

d. limit the contagion effect of any crisis and

Thus, the contagion went well beyond the torturers limited circle.

Talk of haircuts for private investors immediately triggers concerns about contagion.

And Spain is doing all it can to avoid the contagion.

That, in turn, would sharply contain the risk of financial contagion.

It is very hard to make legislators understand these delicate distinctions. There is bound to be some contagion from one function to another.

There has been much concern about financial contagion between Europe and America.

Finally, adverse contagion is extending beyond the 17 countries in the eurozone.

Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.

Other countries governments, it seems, have been trying to distance themselves from the problem, fearing a contagion that they know is likely to spread.

Despite the lack of significant financial contagion risk, a renewed Greek crisis, stemming from a lasting and serious breakdown of negotiations between the new government and EU institutions, would constitute a major problem for European cooperation. The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.

But contagion rates depend on patterns of thinking, which are difficult to judge.

It is certainly the case that contagion will rage after any Greek restructuring.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion.

ROME The euro contagion triggered by Greece s sovereign debt crisis has now infected Italy.

Will there be contagion to vulnerable countries in Europe and elsewhere? Not just yet.

More importantly, as the world s leader in stringent, real time censorship of electronic communications, China is strongly placed to block any Arab contagion from reaching its shores.

The combination of financial contagion from Europe, which has already led to a severe credit crunch, and a sudden flood of low priced imports from China leaves the Romney administration in a bind.

But today, Africa s pay as you go practices are a powerful defense against financial contagion.

A bubble forms when the contagion rate goes up for ideas that support a bubble.

Anger at these profits and bonuses only tends to increase the contagion of the story.

Consequently, although the current crisis is expected to have a relatively minor effect compared to past upheavals, the possibility of contagion from turbulence in the US cannot be disregarded.

Any economic crisis which began in the United States would not lead to revolution unless one of the older economies of Europe caught the contagion from the United States.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.

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This allowed managers to pursue more long term goals and proved effective in blocking contagion effects.

We don t know yet whether political contagion in the Middle East will spread to other countries.

This time it is from Europe, where a raging sovereign debt crisis threatens to turn a mild recession into something far worse a possible Greek exit from the euro, which could trigger contagion across the eurozone.

A number of physicians began to suspect contagion and hygiene as causal factors in spreading puerperal fever.

But the real problem stems from another form of contagion bad ideas move easily across borders, and misguided economic notions on both sides of the Atlantic have been reinforcing each other.

But the real problem stems from another form of contagion bad ideas move easily across borders, and misguided economic notions on both sides of the Atlantic have been reinforcing each other.

On the Y axis is the cumulative instances of contagion, and on the X axis is the time.

For starters, Chinese officials should be under no illusion that the country will be immune to financial contagion.

This systemic risk a financial shock leading to severe economic contagion was supposed to be reduced by securitization.

A fully capable regional financial safety net could contain the contagion of financial shocks emanating from individual economies and prevent disruptions to the region s key growth drivers intra regional trade and investment.

A series of bank panics emanated from central Europe in the summer of 1931 and spread financial contagion to Great Britain, then to the US and France, and finally around the world.

Such narratives, especially those fueled by accessible human interest stories, are the thought viruses whose contagion drives the economy.

The problem is not another financial meltdown in an emerging market, with the predictable contagion that engulfs neighboring countries.