DERIVATIVES FOR CAPITAL MARKET EFFICIENCY
Abstract
Derivative contracts transfer risk, especially price risk, to those who are able and willing to bear it. How they transfer
risk is complicated and frequently misinterpreted. Derivatives have also been associated with some spectacular
financial failures and with dubious financial reporting. This paper will discuss the role of derivative products in capital
flows, especially in providing a means of both reducing and enhancing market risks associated with given net flows. It
will emphasize how derivatives can be used to evade risk-control or prudential regulation, circumvent capital controls,
drive the dynamics of currency instabilities, and obscure true risk positions and thereby undermine the usefulness of
balance of payments capital account categories. Financial derivatives (credit default swaps, options, etc) are screwing
over the economy because too much money is being poured into the invisible (derivatives) market. This probably
undervalues the prices of the underlying goods/assets/etc in the real market (instead, investors should just simply buy
the stocks, etc and the increased demand would drive up the stock price and it would make everyone happy). All these
derivatives may contribute to risk… it may encourage people to take on unreasonable risk and could lead to drastic
market volatility.
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