The impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies on the global financial system: Prospects and contradictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 2096-2117
Author(s):  
Husan S. UMAROV
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
System Today

Subject. This article examines the impact of cryptocurrencies on the global financial system. Objectives. The article aims to identify, systematize, and analyze the influence of cryptocurrencies, as well as the blockchain, on the global financial system, and identify the opportunities and limitations that exist at the present stage. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, systematization, and forecasting. Results. In accordance with the original hypothesis put forward, the article reveals that cryptocurrencies do not represent such a powerful part of the global financial system today to consider it as a driver of changes in this system, but large enough to provoke a crisis similar to the coronavirus one. Conclusions. Today, cryptocurrencies are one of the promising financial instruments, the influence of which in the global financial system can significantly increase with the appropriate actions of the economic agents themselves. The positive impact on the elements of the global financial system will make cryptocurrencies more instrumental in the global foreign exchange and capital markets.

Analyzing the impact of financial momentum on the development of the economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-315
Author(s):  
V.V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Interest Rate ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Financial System

Subject. The article discusses the momentum in finance. Objectives. The study reveals the impact of financial momentum as the unity of antipodes in the development of the national economy. Methods. The study is based on a systems approach and methods of descriptive statistics. Results. I discover the ultimate goal of globalization, i.e. the substantive simplification of national economies and strengthening of global economic ties. The goals determine the logic tendency of national economies for reducing the interest rate so as to gain the financial momentum and, consequently, fanning the crisis risk in the global financial system. The global financial system became the substance of global economic processes, which determined development opportunities of national economies. I reveal what countries have the high and low financial momentum. Conclusions and Relevance. Being the unity of antipodes in the modern economic development, financial momentum causes countries to lose their economic identity, making them just functions of the global financial system. The cyclical development model of national economies is replaced with the metron model that rests on fluctuating advanced economies with the low financial momentum at its bottom and emerging economies at its top. The findings crystallize the concept and new competencies for a person who decide on the determination and performance of financial regulation activities.

Financial markets as commensurating machines

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-565
Author(s):  
Barbara Kuchler
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Derivatives Markets

Ever since the crisis of 2008, the dynamism and self-referentiality of financial markets have puzzled observers. This article argues that this dynamism is the product of a long process of commensuration, by which ever more heterogeneous financial assets and financial instruments have come to be compared with, substituted for, and valuated relatively to one another, and have thereby been condensed into a highly interconnected financial system. This trajectory can be found both in the long-term historical emergence of financial markets from ancient origins and in the more recent transformations of the financial system since the 1970s, including (i) the rise of derivatives markets, and (ii) the rise of capital markets as against bank-intermediated capital flows. The rise of derivatives markets was triggered by the commensuration of basic securities (such as stock, bond) and derivatives (such as options, futures), established by the Black-Scholes-Merton theory of option pricing. The rise of capital markets was rooted in the commensuration – and hence, competition and substitution – of bank products (such as loans, deposits) and non-bank products (capital market securities).

scholarly journals Ethics in the Operation of Banks in the Perspective of the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Eliza Komierzyńska-Orlińska
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
Partial Paralysis

Ethics in bank operations is and should be relevant. Because of their special status – institutions of public trust and the special role they play in the market economy – creating the bloodstream of economic life while being its participants as entrepreneurs – all their actions should have ethical foundations. They staggered tremendously during the financial crisis of 2007–2009 (called the crisis of trust) when as a result of careless actions of banks a problem of so-called toxic assets appeared which have shaken the foundations of banking activity. This resulted in the collapse of the capital markets, partial paralysis of the global financial system and a massive recession. The greed and recklessness of financiers began to be identified with the institution of the bank. Th aim of this study is to draw attention to the fact that banks – despite the turmoil (or rather especially because of) the crisis of 2007–2009 – as institutions of public trust should be guided by the values, standards and principles of ethics in every aspect of its business despite the fact that they are entrepreneurs focused on maximizing profit.

scholarly journals CAN ISLAMIC BANKING DEVELOPMENT SPUR FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN OIC MEMBER COUNTRIES?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-185
Author(s):  
Kamalu Kabiru ◽  
Wan Hakimah Binti Wan Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Banking Development

Islamic financial instruments of profit-loss-sharing and redistributions are capable of including people hitherto outside the formal financial system into mainstream formal finance thereby increasing the level of financial inclusion. Globally, OIC member countries have the highest number of adult age 15 and above without access to a formal bank account (53.7%). The primary purpose of this study is to investigate how does Islamic banking can increases the level of financial inclusion in OIC member countries. The work employed the use of system GMM, second-generation cointegration test and causality test to achieve this objective. The data used in this study were obtained from world development indicators, GLOBAL Findex and OIC statistical database from 2013 to 2018. The result found that Islamic banking significantly affects the level of financial inclusion in OIC member countries, and the impact found to be positive and significant when the interaction of Islamic banking and institution were used. Moreover, Islamic banking is found to cause financial inclusion, with no bidirectional causality. Other independent variables, GDP per capita, Institution and domestic to private sector are found to have positive impact on financial inclusion. The results confirmed that, Islamic banking has positive impact on financial inclusion in OIC member countries. In order to promote financial inclusion the policymakers in OIC member countries should consider improving the level of Islamic banking development, so that more people outside the formal financial system will be included. Keywords: Islamic banking development, Financial inclusion, Generalised Methods of the Moment (GMM), Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries

scholarly journals The Interaction Between FX and Credit Risk as an Example of Intersection of Monetary and Financial Stability Policy Goals – The Case of Serbia

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Željko Jović
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Credit Risk ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Price Stability ◽  
Foreign Exchange Risk ◽  
Exchange Risk ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The financial system of Serbia is highly bank-centric and euroised, which is a common specific feature of financial systems in developing countries. High level of euroisation represents an adequate environment for the development of emphasized interaction of foreign exchange and credit risks; therefore, creation of the spillover mechanism of foreign exchange risk to credit risk is immanent for euroised systems. Although maintaining the stability of the dinar exchange rate is a secondary goal of the National Bank of Serbia in relation to price and financial stability as the primary goals, in terms of existence of the aforesaid spillover mechanism, maintaining stability of the dinar exchange rate represents the area where there is an interaction between the goals of monetary policy (price stability) and those of financial stability policy (maintaining and strengthening the financial system’s stability). In order to explore whether the spillover mechanism of foreign exchange risk to credit risk exists in Serbia’s financial system, the vector autoregressive (VAR) model is applied on data from the Serbian banking sector to quantify the impact of changes in the dinar exchange rates on the rate of non-performing loans (NPLs); the sample was formed in the period of increased instability of the dinar exchange rate, from 31 January 2008 to 31 December 2010. As we have quantitatively confirmed the impact of increase in the dinar exchange rate on the increase of 90-120 days past due NPLs, we can conclude that the existence of expressed interaction between foreign exchange risk and credit risk in the Serbian financial system represents a paradigm of the regulator’s need to achieve contemporary goals of monetary and financial stability policy by maintaining relative stability of the dinar exchange rates. Depreciation of the local currency has inflationary pressure on price stability and simultaneously influences the achievement of financial stability goals through the spillover mechanism of foreign exchange risk to credit risk. In addition to taking systematic measures to reduce the level of euroisation and introduce the specific regulatory requirements, in order to protect banks and clients from the dinar exchange rate volatility, the regulator faces extremely important task of maintaining relative stability of the dinar exchange rate as the instrument to simultaneous achievement of goals of monetary and financial stability policies.

scholarly journals Twitter, Investor Sentiment and Capital Markets: What Do We Know?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Heba Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Sentiment ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, the social media play a central role not only in “de-asymmetrizing” the information between firms and investors but also in influencing the emotional response to this information. The social media have provided firms with the opportunity to construct their image and stimulate significant attention and positive emotional responses (i.e. celebrity firm). Investors also become no longer passive participants; they can now communicate, re-tweet, comment, mention, react to information and express their sentiment/views. Theoretically, this should exert a positive impact on information diffusion and so the market efficiency. However, as the social media also significantly influence the public mood and emotional response to any new information/news, several behavioral explanations contradicting with the concept of market efficiency (e.g. investor sentiment and herding behavior) become more reasonable. The study aims at providing a literature review and synthesis of research on the impact of social media sentiment in the context of capital markets, scrutinizing the theoretical understanding of this impact, underlining the methodological challenges related to extracting the sentiment, and reviewing the main empirical findings on the impact in the context of Twitter and StockTwits, which will enable researchers to evaluate and classify existing studies, obtain useful insight into the theoretical understanding of the impact of social media sentiment, hence spurring further theoretical and empirical research.

scholarly journals Green Bonds vs Regular Bonds: Debt Level and Corporate Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Elettra Agliardi ◽  
Vitalii Chechulin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Debt Level ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Debt Levels

This paper compares the effectiveness of traditional and green bonds for corporate performance among globalcompanies which issue these types of bonds. Our research represents a first attempt to provide an original empiricalcontribution with a specific focus on the influence of green debt levels on corporate performance. We develop aframework for the analysis of the influence of the debt level on corporate performance, and also compare the influence ofvarious types of bonds issuance on several indicators of corporate performance.Our data refer to 118 companies from various industries and countries, including 17 companies issuing green bonds inthe period from 2013 to 2017. We study the impact of debt levels on some standard corporate performance indicators,such as ROA, ROE, Revenue/Assets, EBITDA/Assets and EBIT/Assets.Our results show that bond issuance has a positive effect on corporate performance. In particular, the relationshipbetween debt levels and corporate performance is described in a non-linear way (an inverse U-shape), i.e., as debt levelincreases, the firm’s corporate performance grows, but only up to a certain point where the largest positive effect isachieved. Moreover, we find that the issuance of green bonds has a larger positive impact on corporate efficiency thantraditional bonds and the growth in the share of green financing in the total company’s debt has a positive impact oncorporate performance.This study opens up avenues for further research in the field, and combining our approach to evaluating the effect ofgreen bonds on corporate performance with an examination of companies arranged according to their life cycle stagewould be intriguing. However, at the present stage of development of the green bonds market it is impossible to studytheir influence on corporate performance as the research selection is rather small, and this market has emerged ratherrecently.

scholarly journals Livestock research generated technologies and their impact on Bangladesh national economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Fauzia Yasmin ◽  
SM Khorshed Alam
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Livestock Sector ◽  
Research Investment ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Economic Development ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
The Impact

This study was conducted by using annual research investment data of BLRI to estimate the impact of livestock research generated technologies on national economy of Bangladesh. The results showed that the livestock research investment was increased and consequently contribution in GDP of livestock sector was also increased. The result of Chow Test F1,35= 4.35  indicated that there is a great positive impact of livestock technologies on livestock Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The results revealed that the contribution of generated livestock technologies through annual investment Tk.1.65 million in livestock research, which was increased livestock GDP by Tk. 3,044.56 million annually which saved Tk. 2913.93 million of import expenditures of livestock products from outside countries. Therefore, to save significant amounts of foreign exchange through reducing imports and earn more foreign exchange through export; more investment on livestock research is needed. Hence, further national economic development, Bangladesh government must emphasize research investment for generating livestock technologies. Bangladesh J. of Livestock Res. 20(1-2): 77-87, Jan-Dec 2013

scholarly journals Evaluation of derivatives impact to early systemic risk of Euro area

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Rima Žitkienė ◽  
Valdas Grigonis ◽  
Pavlo Burak
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Derivatives ◽  
Size Factor ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Evaluation of systemic risk is very complicated, as it is difficult to accurately predict the extent of the links between various institutions, and the possible spread and scale of the country's systemic risk. In addition, the country's systemic crisis is affected by many factors, many elements of the financial system. Financial derivatives are one of many elements of financial system, and the market of financial derivatives is huge compared to other financial instruments. The impact of financial derivatives to economies of various countries has been widely studied, however, the research on their impact to countries‘ early systemic risk remains under-researched. For this reason, assessment of the impact of derivative financial instruments on the early systemic risk is very relevant. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to assess the impact of financial derivatives on the country's early systemic risk in the Euro area region. Results. It is shown that correlation fluctuates between weak-strong level, when analyzing relationship between various factors of financial derivatives and early systemic risk in the Euro area. Results of linear regression analysis prove that the group of financial derivatives independent variables (interconnection, size, liquidity, complexity, stability, leverage) can be used to reliably estimate the dependent variable (early systemic risk). Logistic regression analysis also provides similar results to the linear regression analysis. Additionally, it is shown, that logistic regression is more suitable to analyze impact on early systemic risk. Analysis of impact of individual financial derivatives factors to early systemic risk demonstrate, that three financial derivatives factors – size, complexity, and leverage – may be the best predictors of an impending systemic crisis. Among these factors, the size factor has the largest impact on early systemic risk of the Euro area, and complexity factor shows improved statistical parameters, which indicates, that this parameter is more suitable to be used in early warning system models. Conclusions. The use of financial derivatives has strong impact on early systemic risk in the Euro area. The size factor of financial derivatives indicates the highest probability of an impending systemic crisis. Nevertheless, complexity factor of financial derivatives is the only statistically significant factor, that has an impact on early systemic risk. The results suggest that the inclusion of these factors in the systemic risk assessment models, which are developed by researchers, could increase the accuracy of the models. It is noted, that country’s systemic risk may not necessarily arise in financial derivatives, because there are many different financial products in the financial system. As a result, other financial instruments could also be the subject to further research by scientists. The inclusion of factors of various financial instruments could help to better identify the risks of impeding systemic crisis in systemic risk assessment models.

scholarly journals Threshold Effect of Financial System on High-Quality Economic Development

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lu Shen ◽  
Guohua He
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Threshold Model ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Optimal Interval ◽  
Development Level ◽  
The Impact

The relationship between financial system and economic development is not a simple linear relationship. In some cases, the development of finance may not improve the economic development level. This paper studies the influence of the financial system on the high-quality economic development, constructs the comprehensive index of the financial system by the factor analysis method, and calculates the green total factor productivity as the index of high-quality economic development by the CRS multiplier model. Empirically, this paper takes the panel data of 30 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China from 2005 to 2018 as samples, constructs the panel threshold model, and applies the financial system, economic development level, infrastructure, and industrial structure as threshold variables to study the nonlinear relationship between the financial system and high-quality economic development. The results demonstrate that the impact of the financial system on the high-quality economy presents an inverted U-shaped relationship when the financial system and industrial structure are the threshold variables, indicating that there is an optimal interval, that is, when the financial system threshold is between 0.1355 and 0.1377 and the industrial structure threshold is between 0.1364 and 0.1408, the financial system plays a greater role in the allocation of funds and has the most obvious positive impact on high-quality economic development. Meanwhile, the impact of the financial system on the high-quality shows a marginal decreasing trend when the economic development level and infrastructure are the threshold variables; when the economic development threshold is less than 0.1409 and the basic setting threshold is less than 0.1167, the financial system has the greatest effect on promoting high-quality economic development. Based on the research results, targeted policy suggestions are put forward.

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