The liquidity pressures experienced by AIG during that time of fragile economic markets threatened its ability to continue to operate, and the prospect of AIG's disorderly failure posed considerable systemic risks in various ways as a consequence of its significant and wide-ranging operations.
In addition, the weight of energy-related items in most accession countries' HICPs is higher than in European countries. In accession countries they vary between 22% and 31%, while the average in the euro area is only 11%. The rising oil prices hence add a further element to the balance of risks for inflation inside the accession countries.