Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks.

But its revenues and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real estate bubble.

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

There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.

Do we need financial institutions to be so highly leveraged (that is, carrying so much debt relative to equity)?

These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5 equity (and thus 95 debt).

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

The stock market is the first logical place to look, as it is a highly leveraged investment and has a history of bubbles.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

By assuming away the damage that highly leveraged megabanks can do, the myth of a good crisis merely makes political pressure on central banks all the more likely.

The current system, which allows privatized gains from highly leveraged risk taking but socializes losses in the event of failure, must be changed to avoid episodic financial meltdowns.

Because financial institutions held much of these securities, their market values declined as well, leaving balance sheets in need of restructuring, particularly given their highly leveraged capital structures.

Third, we need better supervision and regulation of the financial system, including regulation of opaque or highly leveraged financial institutions such as hedge funds and even sovereign wealth funds.

A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem.

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem.

And leading bank executives still insist that they should be allowed to run highly leveraged global businesses, in which they are paid based on their return on equity unadjusted for any risk.

Indeed, those who can borrow (high grade firms and prime households) don t want or need to, while those who need to highly leveraged firms and non prime households can t, owing to the credit crunch.

Equity based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks assets. As Holger Spamann and I show in our research, executive payoffs should be tied to the long term value delivered not only to shareholders, but also to other contributors to banks capital.

Highly leveraged systems in finance dependent economies were the first to hit a wall, surprising many who had uncritically bought into the Great Moderation the idea that macroeconomic and asset market volatility had eased permanently.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

Mittal is a strong but fragile company, for it is highly subject to the speculative waves of the global market for raw steel.

Banks are highly leveraged institutions with relatively small capital bases, so even a relatively small decline in the prices of assets that they or their borrowers hold can leave them unable to pay off depositors, no matter how long the liquidation process.

The second question is how to constrain leveraged growth in the future.

The partnerships have leveraged additional funding from the Government of the Netherlands.

Germany s banks today are the most highly leveraged of any of the major advanced economies, while at the start of the crisis they held close to one third of all loans made to the public and private sectors of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Italy.

In addition to the excessive focus on short term results, a second important source of incentives to take excessive risks has thus far received little attention. The payoffs of financial sector executives were tied to highly leveraged bets on the value of their firms capital.

Under the second scenario, China s leaders fail to rein in credit growth, mainly because highly leveraged local governments, well connected real estate developers, and state owned enterprises (SOEs) successfully resist policies that would cut off their access to financing and force them into insolvency.

But consider the way in which the term debt (the original sin against God, with Satan as the great loan shark) has become leverage, a metaphor from engineering that has turned the classical injunction against getting into debt into a virtual duty to be highly leveraged.

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times into a 3 million park.

The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

If you are in Thailand and you suddenly crave pizza, it is highly likely that you will be referred to The Pizza Company, the largest pizza fast food chain in the country.

A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company, is a company that is owned or controlled by another company.

But do we really want to see the US leveraged up to its ears again? Probably not.

The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.