EMERGING CAPITAL MARKETS: OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITS

Abstract

This theoretical study examines the concept of emerging capital markets in Europe from the border between certain opportunities and limits. The financial architecture of emerging capital markets has certain characteristics such as a high degree of instability and a sharp level of illiquidity which exposed the vulnerability of this particular type of market. Emerging capital market represents a main characteristic of developing countries and they are less efficient than the developed market given their deep functional, structural and institutional dysfunctions.

Keywords

• emerging capital markets
• developed capital markets
• dysfunctions
• efficiency
• investment
• risk