As Oliver Hart and I explained in a recent paper, this can be done easily, with a regulator intervening every time the credit default swaps on the financial institutions debt becomes too high.

This risk was highlighted by the recent downgrade of Italy s credit rating by Standard Poor s.

George Soros s recent book on the credit crisis is a good example of this line of thinking.

In recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe.

Europe is still high from Barack Obama s recent visit.

A recent credit card commercial depicts a father and son traveling to Norway to trace their family s origins.

No, the main cause of the recent recession is surely a global credit boom and its subsequent meltdown.

They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

The recent market rallies in stocks, commodities, and credit may have gotten ahead of the improvement in the real economy.

This particular model predicts that banks will over invest in high risk, high yield projects, i.e., asymmetric information lets toxic loans onto the credit market.

Pollution Pollution in this region has been extremely high in recent years.

In recent years, Pakistan's economy has experienced a high level of growth.

In doing so, officials are reluctant to take into account that the recent crisis resulted from an unprecedented credit boom gone bust.

The immediate causes are well known. They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

There is a credit crunch, as banks with insufficient capital do not want to lend to risky borrowers, while slow growth and high levels of household debt have also depressed credit demand.

We must reckon with a huge increase in bankruptcies as well as with impaired credit markets and high unemployment.

Consequently, maintaining high GDP growth rates requires an ever increasing volume of credit and a continuously growing money supply.

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Given how financially stretched US households are, a good part of this tax rebate may be used to pay down high credit card balances (or other unsecured consumer credit) or to postpone mortgage delinquency.

Unfortunately, given high inflation, structural adjustment has been postponed, with efforts to control credit expansion becoming the government s first priority.

In the years leading up to the crisis, two bubbles property and credit fueled a record high personal consumption binge.

And for this the IMF s strong, politically astute management not exactly something from which the Fund has regularly benefited in recent years deserves credit.

Credit Where Credit is Due

In addition to tighter credit, falling home prices and high unemployment will continue to put a crimp on US consumer spending.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.

Their discipline and bearing have been of a high order, reflecting credit on themselves, their countries and on the United Nations.

They tell us that the recent financial crisis pales in comparison to the looming ecological credit crunch, which could presage a large scale ecosystem collapse.

China s pursuit of a high saving, large trade surplus economy in recent years embodies mercantilist teachings.

BEIJING US Vice President Joe Biden s recent four day visit to China ended on a high note.

Such rules also featured high on the agenda of the recent G 8 Summit in Northern Ireland.

Recent events have not enhanced the stature of the US as a supplier of high quality assets.

A recent investigation uncovered a stockpile of chequebooks, credit cards and forged documents which had been used to obtain goods which could then be returned for cash.

A financial consultant firm has advised that the United Nations could expect to receive a credit rating in a range between the AA (very high grade, high quality) and A (upper medium grade) categories.

Education Graduated from the Moscow Aircraft Institute, Radio Electronics Faculty (1991), and High School of Privatization and Business Institute, Finance and Credit Faculty (2004)

And a more recent one The possibility of sustaining high culture in our time is becoming increasing problematical.

Recent appointments to head the IMF have all been pushed through after high level bargaining among European governments.

The uneasy relationship of money and politics has given rise to several high profile scandals in recent years.

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The Asian Development Bank is working on innovative mechanisms to bring more finance to the infrastructure sector, such as the recent partial credit guarantee facility set up by India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited in collaboration with the ADB. By boosting the credit ratings of infrastructure projects via credit enhancements, this facility will allow pension funds and insurers to invest in infrastructure projects.

In recent years, the central government has tightened its control over the banking sector, undermining the financial system s development, not least by impeding banks ability to assess credit risk.

No player but the last in the securitization chain was exposed to the ultimate credit risk the rest simply raked in high fees and commissions.

These needs seem manageable, but, as recent events in Europe and recent US data have reminded us, the recovery and confidence remain fragile, especially against the backdrop of high public debt.

Indeed, recent growth in Africa appears to have been fueled by increases in oil exports and high oil prices.

The recent reduction in negative rhetoric and increase in high level contacts in the region is an encouraging development.