Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Kenroy Dowers, Pietro Masci Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 1931003491
Описание
Local capital market development responds to the need to reduce the risk of financial crises that result from an excessive reliance on external borrowing?for example, to avoid foreign exchange risk, reduce contagion, and decrease short-term externalborrowing. In fact, as financial crises dwarf the role of financial intermediation, the problems of asymmetric information become even more severe, leading to greater public mistrust of financial institutions. The contributors in Focus on Capital tackle various aspects of developing Latin American capital markets. Macroeconomic and structural policies, accounting practices and standards, bond market development, market infrastructure, derivatives markets, corporate governance, ethics, human capital, and regional integration all play a role. One of the shortcomings of many strategies for capital market development?more important than getting the sequencing wrong?is failing to understand the links between the various...
