Risk appetite, growth and crises

Low risk is good for growth for a few years until the investments made in the quiet years turn out badly, growth reverses and a crisis becomes more likely. It can hence be used to forecast both crisis and GDP. By contrast, high risk is correlated with pending instability and recession, and not predictive of it.

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