Figure 2: Labour Productivity Growth in the Euro Area(*) 1980-2004 (average annual percentage growth rates)  BIS Review 94/2007  17  Source: EU KLEMS database. *) Excludes Slovenia.
We have sought to accomplish this goal in significant part by reducing both the probability of failure of a large banking firm and the consequences of such a failure were it to occur. We have substantially increased the capital, liquidity, and other prudential requirements for large banking firms, and these increases are not free.