It's too risk averse.

People are a little risk averse. So what?

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

States in decline think of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1914 tend to become less risk averse and thus much more dangerous.

The crisis spread because the banking system was not sufficiently risk averse and in some cases even seemed to relish risk.

As consumers, firms, and investors become more cautious and risk averse, the equity market rally of the second half of 2012 has crested.

The Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, for its part, usually takes a risk averse, gradualist approach to crisis management.

Indeed, conventional wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk averse and will not support liberalization.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

But some, being averse turn away,

Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk averse West to choose between war and accommodation.

Meanwhile, the Bank s extreme risk averse culture reflects a rational response to critics who make a huge fuss about every project or program failure.

To be sure, China may have a strong tendency to create bubbles, partly because people in a fast growing economy become less risk averse.

Thirty five years ago, the US National Institutes of Health adopted overly risk averse guidelines for research using recombinant DNA, or genetic engineering, techniques.

No wonder people are averse to doodling at work.

Courts haven t been entirely averse to taking responsibility, though.

If people are risk averse enough that increased fear of the future causes them to save more, rising global uncertainty will raise bond and stock prices, and lower interest rates and dividend and earnings yields.

Perhaps they risk more than can be justified.

African American men are also more at risk.

Moreover, credit growth on both sides of the Atlantic will be restrained, as many financial institutions in the US and Europe maintain a risk averse stance toward lending.

In fact they would never have thought of themselves as closed and set in their ways, as slow to respond to new challenges, as small and risk averse.

The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

In most cases, they have taken on more risk.

DAVOS Today s world seems more risk laden than ever.

We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people.

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

Obviously, the latter risk is more relevant in today s conditions.

The fiscal response tax cuts and spending increases has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt averse Europe than in the US and China.

Both the two year and five year US repo rates have been pushed periodically into negative territory, owing to the combined effects of risk averse behavior, investor deleveraging, and stricter banking regulation.

And those two things made the risk more than it was.

As the choices become more difficult, the risk to price stability grows.

This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

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.

If we try to save money now, we risk spending much more later.

In people with more than one medical condition the risk was particularly high.

The Doha Round ought to profit from some of these fundamental forces that favor open trade and impede protectionism. Indeed, conventional wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk averse and will not support liberalization.

I'm generally averse to the Internet, but I've begun to realize that the Web offers exceptional opportunities.

Here an exporter faces two types of risk price risk and competitiveness risk.

The risk in Iran is an ever more hostile regime armed with nuclear weapons.

Those who express themselves in Iran are more at risk than those in Europe.

And the argument that Japanese, or other Asians, are culturally averse to political competition is not historically true.

Environmental Risk

Without a regional focus, WANA countries risk sleepwalking into conflict and more pronounced economic decline.

While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.

While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.