Indian Financial Sector and the Global Financial Crisis

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanth R Varma
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
International Expansion ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Liquidity Crisis ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Though the Indian financial sector had very limited exposure to the toxic assets at the heart of the global financial crisis, it suffered a severe liquidity crisis after the Lehman bankruptcy. This liquidity crisis could have been averted with timely injection of liquidity into the system by the Reserve Bank of India, claims Jayanth Varma. Apart from the liquidity crisis, India also had to deal with the collapse of global trade finance; deflation of an asset market bubble; demand contraction for exports; and corporate losses on currency derivatives. Looking ahead, the paper argues that the crisis is a wake-up call for the Indian banks and financial system for better managing their liquidity and credit risks, re-examining the international expansion policies of banks, and reviewing risk management models and stress test methodologies. Rejecting the widely held notion that financial innovation caused the global crisis, the author offers examples from bond markets and securitization to establish the necessity of continuing with the financial reforms. While India has high growth potential, growth is not inevitable. Only the right economic and financial policies and a favourable global environment can make rapid growth a sustainable phenomenon.

Transparency Regulation in Financial Markets – Moving into the Surveillance Age?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Iris H-Y Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Risk Oversight

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the trajectory of legal reforms is likely to turn towards more transparency regulation. This article argues that transparency regulation will take on a new role of surveillance as intelligence and data mining expand in the wholesale financial sector, supporting the creation of designated systemic risk oversight regulators.The role of market discipline, which has been acknowledged to be weak leading up to the financial crisis, is likely to be eclipsed by a more technocratic governance in the financial sector. In this article, however, concerns are raised about the expansion of technocratic surveillance and whether financial sector participants would internalise the discipline of regulatory control. Certain endemic features of the financial sector will pose challenges for financial regulation even in the surveillance age.

scholarly journals The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on China's Financial Market and Macroeconomy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linyue Li ◽  
Thomas D. Willett ◽  
Nan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper provides a brief review of the increasing importance of China in the world economy and discusses the spillover effects of the global financial crisis on China's financial markets and macroeconomy. It presents and critiques alternative ways of estimating these effects. Contrary to much popular discussion, China was hit fairly hard by the global recession generated by the financial crisis. It suffered a huge drop in exports, and these effects on the economy were only partially offset by China's huge stimulus program. While growth remained well above international averages, its drop was of the same order of magnitude as for the United States. The paper closes with a brief discussion of some of the major challenges facing China to rebalance its economy in order to sustain high growth.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on China's Banking Sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-30
Author(s):  
Michiel Haasbroek ◽  
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The banking sector had long been left at the fringes of China's reform policies. Major initiatives of the 1990 and early 2000s helped to balance the need for modernization and internationalization with the objective of preserving political control. When the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) erupted in 2007, it hit the Chinese economy but predominantly in its export sector and much less in its financial sector. Yet when exports collapsed and factories closed in the winter of 2008/2009, the Chinese leadership implemented an ambitious stimulus program and used its leverage over the financial sector to re-start economic growth. These factors – GFC and domestic stimulus – created a series of intended and unintended outcomes. Financial reform in China entered a new stage signalling a profound change in China's banking sector. These changes follow two sometimes contradictive, sometimes mutually reinforcing reform dynamics of top-down policies and bottom-up innovation. In this article we follow an institutional approach and discuss the intensified participation of China's big banks in the Go Out strategy, followed by a shift in the pattern of lending. One factor in this change is the rise of shadow banking and particularly an explosive growth in internet-based financial services. Thus, while the initial reaction to the GFC re-emphasized direct, top-down state involvement in the banking sector, the outcomes of the GFC, China's policies and business innovations have facilitated profound bottom-up changes.

scholarly journals SELF-REGULATION AS ONE OF THE KEY STRATEGIC ELEMENTS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN CRISIS

2016 ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Y. V. Trencevski ◽  
O. G. Karpovich
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Compliance Programs ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
And Control

The aim of the study was to determine the role of self-regulation as one of the key strategic elements in the reconstruction of the financial system in crisis. Approaches – including analysis of the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis in 2008, the monographic literature on the subject identified challenges and their solutions for implementation of self-Regulation of the financial sector (results of research). Social value – the current situation of the crisis of investor confidence in the financial sector requires substantial organizational restructuring. The confidence of investors in adjustable and adequate operation of the financial sector is key for ensuring long-term economic recovery in conditions of the ongoing financial crisis. Practical application of the results is justified practical necessity of establishing responsibility for regulating and minimizing systemic risk of financial firms, the establishment of the state strategy of generating and maintaining an effective method of state regulation and control, defining key goals of economic policy, and have oversight and control over the development of the system of self-regulation (compliance programs) promoted by the sector. The originality lies in the fact that in the scientific revolution introduced the theoretical conclusions, the modern practice of self-regulation of the financial services sector with strong governmental control.

Value and growth stock returns: international evidence (JES)

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elisabete Neves ◽  
Mário Abreu Pinto ◽  
Carla Manuela de Assunção Fernandes ◽  
Elisabete Fátima Simões Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Subprime Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Value Stocks ◽  
Growth Stocks ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Purpose This study aims to analyze the returns obtained from companies with strong growth potential (growth stocks) and the returns from companies with quite low stock prices, but with high value (value stocks). Design/methodology/approach The sample comprises monthly data, from January 2002 to December 2016, from seven countries, Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK, Portugal, the USA and Japan. The authors have used linear regression models for three different periods, the pre-crisis, subprime crisis and post-crisis period. Findings The results point out that the performance of value and growth stocks differs from different periods surrounding the global financial crisis. In fact, for six countries, value stocks outperformed growth stocks in the period that precedes the subprime crisis and during the crisis, this tendency remained only for France, Portugal and Japan. This trend changed in the period following the crisis. The results also show that investor sentiment has a robust significance in value and growth stock returns, mostly in the period before the crisis, highlighting that the investor sentiment is more significant in the moments that the value stocks outperformed. Originality/value As far as the authors know, this is the first work that, taking into account the future research lines of Capaul et al. (1993), investigates whether the results obtained by those authors remain current, meeting the authors’ challenge and covering the gap of recent studies on the performance of value and growth stocks. Besides, the authors have introduced a new country, heavily punished by both the global financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis to understand whether there are significant differences in investment styles and whether this is related to the different economies. Also, in this context, the authors were pioneers in adding investor sentiment as an exogenous variable in the influence of stock returns.

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