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Lectures Outline: Tentative: Topic 1: Overview
Lectures Outline: Tentative: Topic 1: Overview
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Role of the Financial System: Financial Markets Financial Markets: Flow of Funds
Financial markets have five primary functions: Sally gets admission in a university to do a two-year masters course
Facilitate the flow of funds Needs Rs 10 lakhs for that course
Provide the mechanism for the settlement of transactions Does not have enough funds to pay fees and to meet other expenses
that will be incurred during the studies
Generate and disseminate information that assists decision making
She decides to borrow Rs 10 lakhs from a bank
Provide means for the transfer and management of risk
After obtaining some information (such as that related to course,
Provide ways of dealing with the incentive problems that arise in
past borrowings, future income), bank lends Rs 10 lakhs to Sally
financial contracting
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Stock Returns-
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Stock Returns- Stock Returns- “Losers”
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Bank: The more efficient and competitive the financial system, the more
likely this is to happen
Sally’s deposit: Liability
Café loan: Asset
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Financial Markets: Transfer and Management of Risk Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems
Provide means for the transfer and management of risk Provide ways of dealing with the incentive problems that arise in
financial contracting
Risk relates to uncertainty and the chance of an unexpected
outcome being achieved The financial system also has a role in mitigating incentive issues that
arise in financial contracts
A key role of the financial system is to allow for financial risk to be
managed and/or transferred to other parties Information asymmetry
Systems to manage the risks they are exposed to including insurance Moral hazard
products, securitization (packaging up like assets and selling them on
Agency problems
to a third party) and derivative products
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Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems
Information asymmetry occurs when the contracting parties do not Adverse selection: A market process where a less than optimal
have equal access to relevant information and therefore one party is outcome is achieved due to parties having asymmetric information
at an advantage
For example, a prospective borrower is likely to know more about his
ability to repay, and intended use of the borrowed funds, than the
lender
Outcome: Bank, when presented with a choice between funding
several loans, does not select the best loan as they do not have all
the relevant information available to them
⇒ Adverse selection
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Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems
Moral hazard: Risk that one party to a contract can change their The principal-agent relationship is created when there is a
behavior to the detriment of the other party once a contract has separation between ownership (the principal) and control (the
been concluded agent) of an asset
• For example, shareholders of a company (principals) employ managers
For example, risk that once an asset is insured, the covered party (agents) to act on their behalf
may not be as careful to protect the asset as they otherwise would
be Problems arise when the interests of the principals and agents are
not aligned
Managers may want to maximize their chances of employment
elsewhere and to improve their yearly bonus
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Financial Markets: Dealing with Incentive Problems Direct and Indirect Financing
The financial system manages agency problems through various The purpose of the financial system is to transfer funds from SSUs to
devices that align the interest of principals and agents DSUs as efficiently as possible
For example, The job of bringing DSUs and SSUs together can be done by direct
financing or by indirect financing (financial intermediation)
Regulators
The goal is to bring the parties together at the least possible cost and
Board
with the least inconvenience
Compensation Contracts
Sally and other depositers → Banks → Cafe
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Summary Summary
Explain the role of the financial system and why it is important to Explain the function of direct and indirect financial markets and the
individuals and to the economy as a whole key services provided by financial intermediaries
• The role of the financial system is to gather money from SSUs and transfer • Two basic ways the transfer of funds takes place in the economy:
it to DSUs in the most efficient manner possible • Direct financing (financial markets): Wholesale market for financial claims in which
• Larger the flow and more efficiently the funds are allocated, greater is the DSUs and SSUs trade financial claims among themselves
• Brokers, dealer, and investment bankers facilitate these transactions
accommodation of individual preferences for current spending and
savings and the ability of businesspeople to invest in their firms • Indirect financing (intermediation markets): financial institutions intermediate, or
stand between, transactions between DSUs and SSUs
• Financial markets have five primary functions:
(1) facilitating the flow of funds
(2) providing the mechanism for the settlement of transactions
(3) generating and disseminating information that assists decision-making
(4) providing means for the transfer and management of risk, and
(5) providing ways of dealing with the incentive problems that arise in financial
contracting
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Summary Summary
Financial intermediaries provide five fundamental services: Financial claims of different natures and types are brought and sold
• Denomination divisibility: Producing financial claims of varying dollar in financial markets
amounts
• Currency transformation: Buying financial claims denominated in one Financial claims are initially sold on primary markets and then traded
currency and selling financial claims denominated in another in secondary markets
• Maturity flexibility: Creating financial claims with a wide range of
maturities
• Credit risk diversification: Diversifying risk more efficiently than individual
SSUs might be able to on their own
• Liquidity: Buying direct financial claims with low liquidity and issuing
indirect financial claims with more liquidity
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