Leverage was lower in several sectors.

Leverage is down sharply.

Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

First, drastic financial deleveraging is unavoidable.

Emerging Europe s Deleveraging Dilemma

China was constrained by poor supply incentives in agriculture in the late 1970 s.

China s GDP growth, which relies heavily on credit, will take a hit. But the deleveraging process will be gradual and orderly.

Today s Brazil is constrained by inadequate supply of credit.

But the deleveraging process will be gradual and orderly.

Drunk with profits, the banking and insurance industry had leveraged itself to the sky.

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.

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

This year will be no different, as public sector deleveraging has barely started.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

The only questions to be answered now concern when and how deleveraging will occur.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

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Then eurozone deleveraging kicked in, and now the child in the poster is in serious trouble.

Following that, the restructured bank can be recapitalized by raising new debt and equity.

The main driver of excessive lending and leverage is a mistaken view of risk that is shared by everyone.

But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.

Such leveraging of the EU budget would complement the recently established European Stabilization Mechanism (the successor to the EFSM) and the MTFA. Countries receiving assistance should be given the option of applying for an anticipated disbursement of EU funds.

The payoffs of financial sector executives were tied to highly leveraged bets on the value of their firms capital.

Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency.

At most, such research has found that more highly paid executives took greater risks, but it is unclear whether this is a cause or an effect. Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

Such leveraging of the EU budget would complement the recently established European Stabilization Mechanism (the successor to the EFSM) and the MTFA.

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

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

Fiscal austerity has exacerbated the impact of deleveraging by exerting a direct and indirect drag on growth.

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