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All of today’s developments – cyber, bio, or nano – will create new risks of abuse.
In our increasingly interconnected world, there are new risks whose consequences could be widespread – and perhaps global.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance – multiplying probability by consequences – we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
Their embrace of autonomy and mobility risks putting them in conflict with a law-enforcement establishment and media that still view women through a pre-feminist lens: “good girls” who stay at home should not be raped, while “bad girls” who stake a claim to public space are fair game.
In this environment, the promise of PrEP begins to dim, as the risks of seeking treatment outweigh the potentially life-saving benefits.
But one lesson of modern finance theory is that, in well functioning financial markets, repackaging risks should not make much difference.
Worse, banks failed to understand the first principle of risk management: diversification only works when risks are not correlated, and macro-shocks (such as those that affect housing prices or borrowers’ ability to repay) affect the probability of default for all mortgages.
By contrast, the real economy has spluttered along through ephemeral bouts of optimism and intermittent talk of downside risks.
Today’s “efficient market theory” restored to economics the assumption of perfect knowledge by claiming that all risks are correctly priced.
Prudent lenders therefore try to limit both how much a business can borrow and the other risks it can take.
Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment: examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.
We can no longer afford to rely on old-fashioned examination for mega-banks loaded with mass-produced risks.
“Yet neither do I like the idea that Germany plays itself down to eschew risks or solidarity.”
They can undertake risks that others cannot, knowing that if they fail, they may be bailed out.
Within the EU, however, the barriers between states – and thus the economic and political risks of independence – are lower.
Reintroducing the drachma risks exchange-rate depreciation in excess of what is necessary to restore competitiveness, which would be inflationary and impose greater losses on drachmatized external debts.
The Climate Vulnerable Forum has long argued that even two degrees of warming risks creating unbearable conditions for some countries.
But they also underscored the risks to this hoped-for cooperation if external issues are permitted to intrude into the conversation.
The left offered big concessions and was ready to take high risks for the sake of peace.
In addition, the world didn’t reward Israel for making concessions and taking risks.
On the contrary, the risks of extended political instability and further large-scale disruptions to Nigeria’s oil output will remain high, at a time when the world can least afford it.
(Similarly, Western companies tend to base their operations on quarterly results, and thus may neglect long-term risks and opportunities.)
Likewise, in order to reduce financial-sector risks (including excessive leverage and shadow banking), regulation of banking and insurance have been consolidated under the new China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
Nonetheless, Iran has certainly made a promising new show of cooperation that, despite the risks, is worth pursuing.
The problem in China is not the volume of state-owned assets, but their concentration in a few companies and industries – a situation that poses risks to economic performance.
The mutable source, nature, and character of the North Korean security threat has hampered the ability of South Korean defense strategists to minimize the risks and anticipate the costs of potential confrontations, spillovers, or crises.
While strategic competition for resources will continue to shape Asia’s security dynamics, the associated risks can be moderated if Asia’s leaders establish norms and institutions aimed at building rule-based cooperation.
States that tighten their borders encourage desperate people, exploited by cynical smugglers and traffickers, to take greater risks to cross them.
They are aware of the risks and have heard the horror stories.
Such consequences may carry independent risks to mental health; for example, unemployment poses a significant risk for suicide, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
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