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Invited Paper €” A Conjecture On The Origins And Evolution Of Markets

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  • RICHARD L. SANDOR

    (Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Abstract
The author shares his theory on market creation and evolution from his perspective as an academic and a practitioner who has been involved in financial innovation for five decades. Rather than being spontaneously created, markets appear to follow a clear set of steps (the “seven-stage†process) from inception to maturity. It is critical that the benefits from transacting are greater than the costs of establishing the market — otherwise the evolution does not occur. Historical examples of the process outlined by the author can be found in commodity, equity, fixed income and environmental markets. The author provides observations and lessons that his evolutionary framework shares with financial inventive activity in new and existing products in our rapidly evolving digital world. Recent digital innovations such as the blockchain have evolved in a framework that did not require a legislative or regulatory framework (or what the author calls a “permissionless†environment). A properly designed regulatory environment can be permissionless regarding inventive activity (withness the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the United States). A permissionless environment has historical precedent in other “analog†innovations such as wheat trading in the 19th century or financial futures in the mid-1970s. Following the seven-stage process, those innovations arose from structural changes or latent economic demands. Their standards and infrastructure were only much later understood and adopted by the regulators. Given that, the author suggests that since changes now occur at hyper speed, the implications for the future shape of derivatives markets are likely to be profound.

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  • Richard L. Sandor, 2022. "Invited Paper €” A Conjecture On The Origins And Evolution Of Markets," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 67(06), pages 1781-1785, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:67:y:2022:i:06:n:s0217590822500746
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590822500746
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