Emerging Markets and Global Financial Reform

Otherwise, global financial markets will be destroyed by regulatory arbitrage.

At the same time, financial crises in a number of emerging markets could prove contagious, placing additional stress on global financial markets.

In the coming years, emerging markets will most likely struggle with implementation of global financial regulatory standards, which apply mostly to more sophisticated financial markets.

Asymmetries in currency markets are a particularly important aspect of economic power, since they underlie global trade and financial markets.

That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.

Television and newspapers continue to trumpet every twist and turn of global financial markets.

Part of the reason, of course, is the rise of global trade and financial markets.

This gives rise to what may be called financial protectionism, which threatens to disrupt and perhaps destroy global financial markets.

Like other emerging markets, China is committed to financial stability and playing its role in reforming the global financial system.

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Financial markets and institutions with global reach need a global macro prudential regulator, not just a loosely organized college of supervisors.

Yes, financial markets in troubled countries for example, Russia s currency, equity, and bond markets have been negatively affected. But the more generalized contagion to global financial markets that geopolitical tensions typically engender has failed to materialize.

The clearest issue right now is correcting the deficit of regulations that characterizes global financial markets.

Financial markets have collapsed.

But the global economy is slowing down, and financial markets went into a tailspin during the summer.

And global financial markets are now telling us that this excess demand for safe, liquid, high quality financial assets has just gotten bigger.

Is a forced bankruptcy in extremely fragile global financial markets what the French government wanted for Société Générale?

Unfortunately, the recent demonstration of the volatility of global financial markets only encourages the tendency to stockpile reserves.

Also during the year, the Global Compact stepped up its efforts with respect to engaging the financial markets.

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For years, I, along with many others, have complained that emerging markets need greater representation in global financial governance.

With the liberalization of global financial markets that began in the 1970 s, foreign sources of credit became available.

For most of this time, world markets were favorable, with no major global economic or financial crisis or slowdown.

It can help shape a more robust global supervisory system which needs to be built in order to preserve the benefits of global financial markets.

And, yes, financial markets require close supervision and regulation. But what is true of financial markets need not be true of other markets.

Specific financial measures will be needed in order to improve the financial situation of export oriented SMEs and thereby facilitate their continuous expansion into global markets.

Flooding global markets with Canadian oil would constrain global oil prices.

Markets peaked in 2007, and then fell sharply in many of these places with the onset of the global financial crisis.

With global financial markets in crisis and Europe s economy softening, the challenges for the new Italian government will only become greater.

But with evidence of deep problems in US financial markets, global banks would start looking for other ways to finance themselves.

Likewise, global integration means that eurozone distress threatens the US economy, while the US debt ceiling standoff threatens financial markets everywhere.

Already, financial markets have responded with alacrity.

Asymmetries in currency markets are a particularly important aspect of economic power, since they underlie global trade and financial markets. By limiting the convertibility of its currency, China is avoiding currency markets ability to discipline domestic economic decisions.

Nevertheless, as the events of recent months have shown, emerging markets are not immune from the current bout of global financial turmoil.

Mindful of such concerns and persistent pessimism in global financial markets, Merkel is now taking bold political initiatives at home and overseas.

Similarly, liberalized financial markets need to be complemented by financial disclosure requirements and financial supervision.

And the interaction between financial markets and financial authorities is also reflexive.

But the global financial system that emerged was fundamentally unstable, because it was built on the false premise that financial markets can be safely left to their own devices.

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