Without such knowledge, technical terms like balance sheet recession and rebuilding balance sheets are meaningless.

That should hardly be surprising in an era of balance sheet repair.

Upon receiving such information, financial institutions will cross reference the lists with their customers' profiles.

The level of uncertainty about asset values, solvency, and the connectedness of balance sheets that prevailed at the time was extraordinarily high.

Yet, on both counts, balance sheet repair has only just begun.

First, public and private sector balance sheets in most emerging economies are relatively clean.

Previously, the Central Statistical Bureau issued statistical tables based on fiscal lists (ревизские списки).

Booms have similar characteristics strong growth in banks balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.

True, asset prices have recovered enough to help balance sheets, but probably not enough to help consumption. The impact on consumption will largely have to wait until balance sheets, for both households and businesses, are more fully repaired.

So QE would produce some probably weak balance sheet effects.

In Europe, every balance sheet available has been tapped to forestall a debt crisis in the periphery, resulting in large bailout packages for Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and the contamination of the ECB s balance sheet.

The balance is not reported on the ECB s balance sheet, since it is zero in the aggregate, but it does show up on the respective balance sheets of the national central banks as interest bearing claims against, and liabilities to, the ECB system.

In some cases, funding challenges remain, and balance sheets have not been fully cleansed.

When banks and other financial institutions get into trouble, private losses are transferred explicitly or implicitly to the government s balance sheet.

The impact on consumption will largely have to wait until balance sheets, for both households and businesses, are more fully repaired.

The Irish National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was set up in 2009 to clean up Irish banks balance sheets.

This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage.

This does not mean that recovery of households balance sheets can be ignored in the post crisis period.

The heavy artillery of monetary and fiscal stimulus is being wasted on attempts to short circuit balance sheet repair.

The US crisis promptly turned into a global meltdown thanks to the commingling of balance sheets across jurisdictions.

True, asset prices have recovered enough to help balance sheets, but probably not enough to help consumption.

We have seen the closure of banks, financial institutions and insurance companies the past several months in the US, Europe and lately Japan as a result of the global financial crisis.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

To be sure, the dollar s value will fall, imposing a balance sheet loss on the Peoples Bank of China (PBC, the central bank).

Bank balance sheets had been strengthened after the 1997 1998 financial crisis, and were unencumbered by the overvalued securitized assets and complex derivative securities that caused much of the damage to advanced country financial institutions.

Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

In sum, the crisis originated in a balance sheet shock, to which exposure was simply lower in developing countries.

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With retrenchment and balance sheet repair only in its early stages, the zombie like behavior of American consumers should persist.

A combination of financial sector recapitalization and rapid expansion of the Fed s balance sheet prevented a complete credit lockup.

As the crisis struck, capital flowed out of developing countries to shore up damaged balance sheets in advanced countries. Credit tightened sharply.

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The long bullet points are bad.

Of course, the IOUs now lodged with the ECB may themselves have to be written down, threatening to undermine the ECB s own balance sheet.

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In China, by contrast, bank lending needs to be reigned in, but regulatory efforts have been hindered by off balance sheet financing and the development of an informal quasi banking sector.

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If asset price bubbles develop, balance sheets may look sound individually, but the entire network of interlinked asset liability structures will become increasingly dependent on overvalued collateral, and thus vulnerable to financial contagion.

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