I do believe it's better to not link reserves to "riskiness" because it basically creates an incentive to hide information about your assets. From Wordnik.com. [One Ply Look-Ahead, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Other factors such as riskiness of approach, schedule, ease-of-doing business and performance, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
Continue to bemoan the riskiness of Obama's candidacy. From Wordnik.com. [Here's What Hillary Advisers Are Privately Telling Jittery Donors And Supporters] Reference
That's what the McCain campaign calls it and his riskiness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2008] Reference
Rating agencies underestimated the riskiness of the assets. From Wordnik.com. [The Dharma of Capitalism] Reference
He believes that people exaggerate the riskiness of equities. From Wordnik.com. [Treating Financial Consumers as Consenting Adults] Reference
Beta measures a stock's riskiness against that of the markets. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Banks: Buy Now, Sell Later?] Reference
UBS is having a hard time reducing the riskiness of its business. From Wordnik.com. [UBS Needs All the Capital It Can Get] Reference
It does not depend upon the riskiness of their investment strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President In Roundtable On Social Security] Reference
That riskiness gets translated into the handling of those issues: terrorism/Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Holds Five Point Lead, But Loses Ground On Iraq And Terrorism] Reference
JEFF DICKERSON, TIME WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: There was a riskiness to his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2004] Reference
So according to that measure, the riskiness of the bank's balance sheet hasn't improved. From Wordnik.com. [UBS Needs All the Capital It Can Get] Reference
Most of the difference in price is based on the perceived riskiness of the beneficiaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Abortion Doctor's Assassin Goes to Court] Reference
The second lesson is that we may need more regulation of banking to reduce its inherent riskiness. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism in Crisis] Reference
Sarah Palin throws the mud and John McCain tries to establish the riskiness of an Obama presidency. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2008] Reference
The job of the board of directors, among other things, is to evaluate the riskiness of the company. From Wordnik.com. [Feel Stimulated?] Reference
Maybe this kind of thing is part of it, that the riskiness and the energy stuff it all kind of adds up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008] Reference
Investors typically prefer investments with as high expectation values and as low riskiness as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Risk] Reference
But just as the market has sprung back from its depths, so too has the relative riskiness of many loans. From Wordnik.com. [A Risky-Loan Market Is Back in Gear] Reference
Its riskiness isn't determined by the underlying collateral so much as where it stands on the battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [Why Citigroup's CDO Holdings] Reference
The BIS report underlines the tricky choices global policy makers face devising measures to determine banks 'riskiness. From Wordnik.com. [BIS Advises Higher Taxes For Big Banks] Reference
Harbinger clients, however, are nervous about the riskiness of the wireless plan and the current uncertainty in markets. From Wordnik.com. [Wireless Network Races for Funds] Reference
And of course, the study adds, “more public attention should be given to reducing the riskiness of younger drivers.”. From Wordnik.com. [Study of older drivers challenges conventional wisdom] Reference
AIG's insurance unit was subject to stringent state regulation but the riskiness of other units fell through the cracks. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Tilman: A "Hedge Fund" Named AIG] Reference
"There is an increased riskiness around repayment because of the recession," spaketh one lobbyist for the financial giants. From Wordnik.com. [Big Bankers Mounting Sneak Attack on Consumers] Reference
Harm that has occurred is of interest only insofar as it provides reliable evidence of riskiness of the underlying conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Theories of Tort Law] Reference
That gives derivatives traders reason to pay less attention to their counterparties 'riskiness and weakens market discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Derivatives Clearinghouses Are No Magic Bullet] Reference
In the short run, the system's riskiness and size will likely continue to shrink alongside a prolonged period of deleveraging. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Kodres: Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Exploring the Post-tornado Contours of the Financial System] Reference
By trying to steal the mantle of change from the Democrats, he demonstrates only the riskiness of his shoot-from-the-hip style. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Burns: This is Not the John McCain New Hampshire Once Loved] Reference
Obama's proposal is a tax on the big banks -- either on their profits, or based upon the riskiness of their investments and loans. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Obama: Sticking it to the Working Stiffs] Reference
So the same exchanges that are supposed to reduce the riskiness of derivatives trades will know the feds will bail them out if they get into trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Triumph of the Regulators] Reference
“Oh, but he no wait,” declared Mary archly, and with plainly a keen sense of the riskiness of the situation, the while she winked at Clyde who had drawn near. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
The problem lies in the Basel II banking regulations, which set out how much capital banks must hold against different types of assets according to their perceived riskiness. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Asset Protection Scheme Is Seriously Flawed] Reference
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