Honcharenko I.
Doctor of Sciences in State Management, Professor, Head of Finance
Department, Cherkasy State Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Shevchenko A.
PhD, Associate Professor of Finance Department, Cherkasy State Technological
University, Cherkasy, Ukraine
THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS IN SHAPING STATE’S
FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY
Introduction. The qualitative evolution of a country’s financial market can serve
as an indicator of its successful economic development. Under conditions when there
is a lack of sources to provide financial support necessary to compensate for the budget
deficit, markets of financial services can become a tool to absorb the temporarily free
assets from the population and business entities and transform them into capital, which
will ensure successful implementation of several economic policy vectors, especially
in terms of its fiscal and monetary components. Actually, the very essence of creating
and existing of a financial market is subject to the concept of having an effective
mechanism of financial intermediation in the country, the purpose of which would be
transformation of savings into investments. Since Ukrainian citizens and domestic
businesses generally prefer not to rely on the government because of the continuing
economic, political and social instability in the country, the problem of stimulating and
expansion of demand for financial products and services seems particularly relevant
for study at present. On the other hand, such phenomena as declining welfare of
Ukrainian citizens,
reducing profitability of commercial structures and shrinking size
of the small business contribute to narrowing the basis for taxation, which has
traditionally been the resource base for financial provision for the government and state
needs. At the same time, the fiscal pressure on active business is constant and fairly
high, which pushes its participants to seek ways to optimize tax deductions or to avoid
taxation at all, using both semi-legal and illegal schemes. The monetary policy that has
been implemented by the National Bank of Ukraine and a number of ministries since
the end of 2013 has demonstrated its inefficiency since it has been unable to stabilize
the financial system and enhance progressive economic development. Thus, under
condition of an appropriate governmental support, the financial market can become a
means of increasing the country’s financial potential; at the same time, incorporating
its capabilities, subject structure and infrastructure into the process of formulating an
updated, modern monetary and fiscal policies
will facilitate the high level of its
efficiency in carrying out the task of Ukraine’s financial convergence with the states
of the European Union.
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