Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.
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There will be more transactions and fluidity in the marketplace with increasing attention to how patents impactrisk and revenue, and more insightful intelligence will be required for key decisions.
And in the U.S., the extended and unresolved fiscal crisis and now the debt ceiling will impact global risk appetite for corporate and portfolio investors.