Financial System

A Financial System is an economic system that allows the transfer of money between savers (and investors) and borrowers.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Thriving Financial System to being a Failed Financial System.
  • It can range from being a Libertarian Financial System to being a Centralized Financial System.
  • It can range from being a Global Financial System to being a Regional Financial System.
  • It can be affected by a Financial Crisis.
  • It can be affected by a Financial System Stimulus.
  • It can be characterized by a Financial Statistic.
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• Example(s):
  • U.S. Financial System.
  • German Financial System.
  • Chinese Financial System.
  • Canadian Financial System.
• See: Stock Market, Central Bank, Currency System.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/financial_system Retrieved:2014-8-3.
  • In finance, the financial system is the system that allows the transfer of money between savers (and investors) and borrowers. A financial system can operate on a global, regional or firm specific level. Gurusamy, writing in Financial Services and Systems has described it as comprising "a set of complex and closely interconnected financial institutions, markets, instruments, services, practices, and transactions."

    According to Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale in Comparing Financial Systems:

    "Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow intertemporal smoothing of consumption by households and expenditures by firms; and they enable households and firms to share risks. These functions are common to the financial systems of most developed

    economies. Yet the form of these financial systems varies widely."

    Financial systems depend on the countries viewpoint on freedom of trade. Some countries i.e. The Soviet Union had socialist financial systems because they value centralized organized state funded trading rather than freedom of trade by everyone.

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