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As national financial
markets
grew more intertwined, cross-border capital flows rose from $0.5 trillion in 1980 to a peak of $11.8 trillion in 2007.
This pullback in cross-border activity has been accompanied by muted growth in global financial assets (despite the recent rallies in stock
markets
around the world).
Surprisingly, emerging economies are also experiencing a slowdown; the development of their financial
markets
is barely keeping pace with GDP growth.
And, while a more balkanized financial system does reduce the likelihood of global shocks creating volatility in far-flung markets, it may also concentrate risks within local banking systems and increase the chance of domestic financial crises.
Many countries continue to limit foreign investment and ownership in specific sectors, restrict their pension funds’ foreign-investment positions, and limit foreign investors’ access to local stock
markets.
Progress on this front would enable equity and bond
markets
to provide an important alternative to bank lending for the largest companies – and free up capital for banks to lend to SMEs and consumers.
Deepening capital
markets
would also benefit local savers and open new channels for foreign investors to diversify.
The ties that bind global
markets
together have frayed, but it is not too late to mend them.
Interbank lending rates are slowly coming down, but they are still far higher than they should be, share prices continue to be volatile, and conditions in global
markets
remain fragile.
We need healthy financial markets, without which we will not recover.
The current European and global frameworks for accounting standards and capital requirements, for example, have exacerbated turmoil in the
markets.
We need to strike a balance between regulation to correct the failings that we have witnessed and the need to preserve dynamic and innovative banks and
markets.
No surprise there: we face another year in which global growth will average about 3%, but with a multi-speed recovery – a sub-par, below-trend annual rate of 1% in the advanced economies, and close-to-trend rates of 5% in emerging
markets.
Markets
may become spooked by another fiscal cliffhanger.
Fourth, many emerging
markets
– including the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), but also many others – are now experiencing decelerating growth.
The fear premium in oil
markets
may significantly rise and increase oil prices by 20%, leading to negative growth effects in the US, Europe, Japan, China, India and all other advanced economies and emerging
markets
that are net oil importers.
This model has worked remarkably well not just in generating growth, but also, as documented in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s 2008 Transition Report , in improving the institutions that support
markets
and democracy in Eastern Europe.
But it has also left these countries vulnerable to the twists and turns of global financial
markets.
The proponents of
markets
are right that incentives matter, but inappropriate incentives do not create real wealth in the economy, only a massive misallocation of resources of the sort we see now in such industries as telecoms.
This repayment contributed to a slow improvement in its credit rating and its eventual return to international capital
markets
in 2014.
When the United States went to war, oil cost less than $25 a barrel, and futures
markets
expected it to remain there for a decade.
Futures traders knew about the growth of China and other emerging markets; but they expected supply – mainly from low-cost Middle East providers – to increase in tandem with demand.
Instead, negotiators must aim to spread the benefits of trade more widely, by taking better advantage of the opportunities for cooperation stemming from geographical proximity, complementary labor markets, demographic dynamics, and economic integration.
Global financial
markets
suck most of the world's savings to the center, but they fail to pump money back out to the periphery.
First, financial
markets
are inherently unstable.
Instability arises because financial
markets
try to discount a future that depends on their own behavior.
It is now recognized that this can lead to what economists call "multiple equilibria," but we continue to deny the clear implication that financial
markets
cannot be left to their own devices.
In practice, of course, international financial
markets
never have been left to their own devices.
Countries that cannot borrow in international
markets
in their own currency lack that power.
That crisis was attributed not to instability in the financial
markets
and the lopsidedness of the system, but to the "moral hazard" introduced by IMF bail-outs.
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