Example collocations logo

Ratios in sentence

398 examples of Ratios in a sentence

This would reduce the risk caused by high-debt ratios and put debt and equity on an equal footing.
Moreover, off-balance-sheet lending has helped to fuel over-investment in some sectors (especially infrastructure, iron and steel, energy, manufacturing, and real estate), leading to overcapacity and priming the economy for the emergence of bad-debt “disaster zones,” which would increase NPL ratios further.
BRUSSELS – Although many European governments have announced expenditure cuts and tax hikes, their debt/GDP ratios continue to deteriorate.
But the goal of austerity was not just to stabilize debt ratios.
For this reason, the current increase in debt/GDP ratios in southern Europe should not be interpreted as proof that austerity does not work.
During the boom years, when countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain were running ever-larger external deficits, their exports did not grow quickly, so their foreign debt/exports ratios deteriorated steadily, reaching levels that are usually regarded as a warning signal.
Sixth, while regulatory reform that increases the liquidity and capital ratios for financial institutions is necessary, those higher ratios should be phased in gradually to prevent a further worsening of the credit crunch.
France’s public debt is 90% of GDP and rising, and five European countries’ debt/GDP ratios are above 100%.
Capital outflows will adversely affect their equity prices, push up their debt-to-equity ratios, and increase the likelihood of defaults.
And even 2% growth will not render Europe’s triple-digit debt/GDP ratios sustainable.
Moreover, he would run far larger debt ratios than Romney, because the main driver of the debt is entitlement spending.
The Obama policy would thus lead to ever-higher deficits and debt ratios well over 100% of GDP, a level that numerous studies imply would reduce US economic growth by one-third or more and might induce a sovereign-debt crisis.
In most Middle Eastern countries, labor-market participation is now among the lowest in the world, and energy-to-output ratios are among the highest.
Furthermore, over the medium term, higher output and employment growth would stabilize public debt/GDP ratios, which would start to fall after 2016.
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
If Italy and Spain have budget surpluses and declining debt/GDP ratios, financial markets will reduce the interest rates on their bonds without the proposed ECB purchases.
Regulators relied mainly on examination of individual loans rather than capital-to-asset ratios.
Signs that home prices are entering bubble territory in these economies include fast-rising home prices, high and rising price-to-income ratios, and high levels of mortgage debt as a share of household debt.
That means lower loan-to-value ratios, stricter mortgage-underwriting standards, limits on second-home financing, higher counter-cyclical capital buffers for mortgage lending, higher permanent capital charges for mortgages, and restrictions on the use of pension funds for down payments on home purchases.
For example, if loan-to-value ratios are reduced and down payments on home purchases are higher, households may have an incentive to borrow from friends and family – or from banks in the form of personal unsecured loans – to finance a down payment.
Research has shown that so-called tier one capital ratios above 13% cut the risk of banking collapses sharply.
Likewise, Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt/GDP ratios before the crisis.
The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart estimate that public debt/GDP ratios of 90% are associated with sharply diminished growth prospects.
Fiscal policy has been effectively disabled since 2010, as the slump saddled governments with unprecedented postwar deficits and steeply rising debt-to-GDP ratios.
The main victims of this state of affairs are women and the young, for whom employment ratios are much lower than for the population as a whole.
But, when countries pursue austerity simultaneously with their main trading partners, overall demand plummets, causing all of their economies to contract and, in turn, increasing their debt/GDP ratios.
Some economists – citing indicators like investment ratios, industrial value-added, and employment – compare China to Japan in the early 1970’s.
The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit/cost ratios.
They may even overshoot, temporarily pushing the ratios even higher than necessary, creating a bubble and causing unnecessary angst among residents.
But, in large part – and with a few exceptions in Central and Eastern Europe – emerging-market economies improved their fiscal performance by reducing overall deficits, running large primary surpluses, lowering their stock of public debt-to-GDP ratios, and reducing the currency and maturity mismatches in their public debt.
BackNext