Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Research in Business, Management and Economics
Year: 2024
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The Importance of Financial Markets
Susana Alvarez-Otero
ABSTRACT:
The finance of the markets is crucial for companies. The financial crisis highlighted the need for all of us to seek formulas that would enable companies to diversify their sources of finance and make use of the stock markets to undertake their growth and expansion strategies. With the decision of the market managers, some support from a number of governments and the declared willingness of the EU to favour mechanisms for bringing companies closer to the markets, in recent years there have been some significant achievements, especially in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises. However, the undertow is still worrying: so far this century the number of companies listed on the stock markets has continued to decline, especially in developed countries. Something is escaping us and we are not capable of reversing a trend that we understand to be negative if we are really looking to promote a healthier and more balanced growth of economies as a whole. In this paper, we propose some measures to try to reverse this negative trend.
keywords: Capital markets; IPOs; strategies to growth