In the Eurozone sovereign and banking risks are highly interrelated with each other

Saturday, January 14, 2012

In the Eurozone sovereign and banking risks are highly interrelated with each other

Nouriel Roubini : In the Eurozone sovereign and banking risks are highly interrelated with each other. The banking risk became sovereign when the banks were bailed out, but now sovereign risk has become a banking risk because a large part of the public debt is held by the banking system. Right now there is a credit crunch and this credit crunch is becoming more severe because banks do not have enough capital, liquidity and have to reduce their leverage by essentially reducing credit and disintermediating. That's going to create more credit crunch. ECB is not a last resort for the sovereign, but has been increasingly playing a role of lender of last resort for their financial system. Without the liquidity support by the ECB, the credit crunch, deleveraging and the run on the banks will become even more severe. - in ET Now

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Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012