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But if markets are working well, then returns will be higher only because risk is higher.
One reason is the interest financial markets have in grabbing a piece of all those transactions costs.
There will be no real poverty eradication without equitable and sustainable economic development, which deregulated markets have proved unable to deliver on their own.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.
But the threat posed by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has had a significant effect on global financial markets in recent months.
The experience of the Great Recession tells us what to expect from financial markets when output plummets: as inflation tumbles, so do nominal and real (inflation-protected) yields on Treasury bills.
Rare disaster risk is most likely a contributing factor in such episodes, and it may be even more relevant for explaining short-term dynamics in financial markets when missiles fly.
At the same time, he wants northern eurozone countries to send money to southern countries, to protect French financial and economic markets in these regions.
And, surely, academics are also to blame for the inertia, with many of them still defending elegant but deeply flawed models of perfect markets that create an illusion of safety for a system that is in fact highly risk-prone.
Similarly, eurozone politicians have obtained a mandate to take bolder action only as the markets have made the costs of inaction more salient.
While the ECB has bought the eurozone some time, the calming effect on markets may be a mixed blessing.
If not, markets might have to deteriorate further to make possible a comprehensive resolution to the eurozone crisis.
To be sure, there is a role for unconventional policies like quantitative easing (QE); when markets are broken or grossly dysfunctional, central bankers need to think innovatively.
But problems arise when these policies are extended beyond repairing markets; the domestic benefits are at best unclear when economies are deeply damaged or need serious reform, while the spillovers from such policies fuel currency and asset-price volatility in both the home economy and emerging countries.
Far more important, however, is whether such principles underpin developing countries’ broader capital markets, which have become increasingly central to the international financial system.
Sovereign wealth funds – the assets of which have swelled from just over $3 trillion in 2007 to more than $7 trillion today – also have a significant influence on global asset markets.
In other words, financial markets are responding to environment-related risks and opportunities, but far too slowly to halt, let alone reverse, the potentially catastrophic damage being wrought by human activity.
Fortunately, according to UNEP’s two-year inquiry into policy options for greening financial and capital markets, the movement is gaining traction in emerging countries such as Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia, as well as developed economies like the United Kingdom.
And the G-20 recently asked the Financial Stability Board to consider the risks that a possible “carbon bubble” – caused by markets’ overvaluation of fossil-fuel companies’ oil, coal, and gas reserves, owing to a failure to account for future limits on extraction and use – pose to the global financial system.
The post-war project of enlightened internationalism allowed multiple countries to align their interests as economic agents, and integrated states and markets.
In recent research I conducted with Gylfi Zoega, we hypothesised that such shifts in expectations, and thus in future economic expansion, can be detected in advance from tell-tale shifts in the stock markets.
Yet governments can attack speculative excesses and thus reduce job instability by doing for capital markets what they have long done for product and labour markets: set up systems to monitor markets for the safety of investors, ensure transparency, and promote good corporate governance.
In China, the e-commerce giant Alibaba is leading a massive effort to connect rural areas to national and global markets, including through its consumer-to-consumer platform Taobao.
Yet economies must not rely on markets alone to bring about the “churn” that capitalism so badly needs.
Neoliberal economics has reached a breaking point, causing the traditional left-right political divide to be replaced by a different split: between those seeking forms of growth that are less inclined toward extreme concentration and those who want to end concentration by closing open markets and societies.
With access to data, markets, and financial services, farmers can plant, fertilize, harvest, and sell products more effectively.
And farmers throughout the Global South are turning to SMS-based services for technical support that allows them more easily to adopt new crops and growing techniques, with benefits for both natural resources and household income and nutrition.Connectivity also improves the functioning of markets by allowing farmers and herders to access accurate price information, coordinate transport and other logistics, and facilitate easier exchange of perishable but nutritious foods such as animal products and vegetables.
Furthermore, by enabling the quick and secure transfer of funds, mobile-banking services allow producers to access markets more efficiently, reduce their transaction costs, and tap into higher-value market sectors.
The impact and success of these tools and programs should be monitored and evaluated, with ineffective approaches being improved or replaced.I’ve conducted research in rural communities around the world, and one of the features they all have in common is the difficulty that farmers and pastoralists confront in accessing reliable information about markets, weather, and financing.
Connectivity also improves the functioning of markets by allowing farmers and herders to access accurate price information, coordinate transport and other logistics, and facilitate easier exchange of perishable but nutritious foods such as animal products and vegetables.
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