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Financial Market Drift : Decoupling of the Financial Sector from the Real Economy? /

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International financial markets play an increasing role in the mind of the general public, much more than they did a few decades ago. There can be no doubt that the size of financial markets has grown at a faster pace than the markets for goods and services in the past ten or twenty years. However,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menkhoff, Lukas
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tolksdorf, Norbert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
Subjects:
Economics.
International economic relations.
Macroeconomics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The relative size of the financial sector and the real economy
  • Current empirical studies of decoupling characteristics
  • Analysis of possible decoupling consequences for the financial sector
  • Economic policy: Assessment and options
  • Concluding assessment of the decoupling hypothesis.