Risk averse investors may now demand higher risk premia for buying bonds from countries seen as weak debtors.

For almost all countries, higher emissions come from higher growth rates.

But if markets are working well, then returns will be higher only because risk is higher.

But if they euroize too soon, candidate countries could find themselves with lower domestic interest rates but a higher external default risk.

OECD countries with higher female labor force participation rates also have higher birth rates.

Higher prices fuel higher growth in these countries, which, accompanied by a population boom, leads to higher domestic energy consumption.

The lower the price of risk, the higher the price of risky assets.

The lender who can t judge the risk goes for investments that promise higher yields.

The lender who can t judge the risk goes for investments that promise higher yields.

When there is no yield in fixed income, even the most conservative pension funds pile into risk assets, driving prices higher and higher.

But today, countries with rising budget deficits, like Ireland, along with countries with high levels of public debt, like Greece and Italy, are at risk to pay substantially higher rates on their government bonds.

But today, countries with rising budget deficits, like Ireland, along with countries with high levels of public debt, like Greece and Italy, are at risk to pay substantially higher rates on their government bonds.

Because banks would need to accept higher risk, a secondary market for mortgages is necessary.

People who have already have one attack are at a higher risk of having another.

This redistributed global income toward countries with a higher propensity to save the oil exporting countries.

This is higher than that of regulators in other major countries.

This design helped spread the earthquake risk from Japan to foreign investors, who could accept the risk and were enticed by higher expected yields.

Such offsetting tariffs would have to differ among products (being higher on more CO2 intensive products) and among countries (being higher for countries with low permit prices).

The risk premium is falling, pushing stock prices higher and lowering yields on long term bonds.

It says that, if your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums for financing their government debt.

Moreover, countries with heavy short term indebtedness risk their political autonomy.

Risk averse investors may now demand higher risk premia for buying bonds from countries seen as weak debtors. On the other hand long term interest rates in countries with stronger fiscal positions France, Germany, and Finland have enjoyed low rates as a consequence of a flight to quality.

Foreign lenders who underestimated the risk of short term loans to Indonesia and Korea would have charged higher risk premiums in a floating rate world.

These proportions will rise even higher as emerging market countries urbanize rapidly.

Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty.

In most countries, it should probably be higher than it is now.

Bank officers got rewarded for higher returns whether they were a result of improved performance (doing better than the market) or just more risk taking (higher leverage).

The big countries with the highest political risk are Russia and China.

With better policies all countries in the world could simultaneously achieve higher growth.

Perhaps this, too, is related to higher inequality than in other advanced countries.

With better policies all countries in the world could simultaneously achieve higher growth.

Applied tariff rates in developing countries, while higher than in advanced countries, are already at an all time low.

Something started to cause investors to fear that Greek debt had a slightly higher risk of eventual default.

Enterprises that factor disaster risk into their construction plans will avert the much higher costs of retrofitting later.

Women living in rural Australia are at higher risk of dying from ovarian cancer than their city counterparts.

Prices rose higher and higher.

It seems counter intuitive that Scandinavian countries, which have higher rates of gender equality should also have higher rates of violence against women.

Rich countries in Europe, North America, and East Asia have a sharply higher share of the elderly than developing countries.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

Risk premiums widened, and the eurozone was divided into creditor and debtor countries.

The risk, of course, is that the other countries may not be intimidated.

Middle income, low price wage countries would grow faster with a higher inflation rate.

As this figure continues to rise, investors will demand a higher risk premium, causing debt service costs to rise.

To avert a repetition, securities held by banks must carry a much higher risk rating than they currently do.