“The peculiarities of the financial market development in Ukraine”

This paper addresses the condition of savings and investments enviroment in the world economy and in particular regions. As a result of financial globalization there were formed promissory economies in a number of countries including the economically developed ones. It is necessary to investigate peculiarities of the financial market development in Ukraine comparing it to the countries with the same conditions of market growth, particularly, it is useful to compare the Ukrainian financial market, first of all, to the markets of approximately the same capitalization volume and, second, to the newly formed markets, especially in the countries of the former “socialist camp”. In the paper the Ukrainian financial market was analyzed comparing it to the countries with so called “frontier markets” (small and non-liquid to be treated as developing markets, or the least developed ones among the above mentioned markets). The authors investigated the correlation dependence between the market capitalization indices of the countries with the frontier markets, such as Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The growth rates of the market capitalization volume in the said countries and the index-number of the market capitalization share of the GDP were analyzed. On the basis of the performed investigation there were given the main recommendations as for strengthening the role of the Ukrainian financial market in the process of forming the competitive economy of the country.


Introduction
During the last decades the world financial system has become rather complex and more attention is needed to keep it stable. The important aspect of international integration processes is the existence of the integrated market of the world savings and loans, i.e. the financial market. Financial markets are developing at a very fast rate influenced by the processes of liberalization, deregulation, globalization as well as the high level of informational and computer technologies. Ukraine is an integral part of the processes of world globalization. Nowadays the Ukrainian financial market is at the early stage of its development and it doesn't influence the world market economy in comparison with the developed countries. However, taking into account the role of developing countries, there exists the necessity of a substantial investigation of the Ukrainian financial market position in the world financial area.
Development of the effective financial market able to mobilize and redistribute the investment resources is the most burning task of the national economy regulation. Lately the financial market has been gaining its pace and there emerges the acute necessity to research the tendencies and define the directions of its further development. Considering the intensive development of the Ukrainian financial market as well as its essential irregularity it becomes necessary to investigate the peculiarities of its development and to define its role in the world financial system.

Methodology
Carrying out the present investigation the authors considered that the main function of the financial market was the transformation of savings of households into investments for the needs of enterprises. The object of this investigation is to analyze the modern world tendencies while forming savings and investments, and to investigate the degree of their correlation with the national trends. A special attention was paid to the characteristic features of behavior of the above said factors in the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe because there were a considerable number of countries with almost the same level of development as in Ukraine. The size of the Ukrainian financial market can not be matched to the leaders of the world financial system, according to the World Bank data the volumes of the domestic market capitalization composed only 0,2% of the sum of market capitalization in USA in 2005. And if we consider the figures of the world financial market capitalization this rate will be even lower. The results of the comparative analysis of the home market and markets of the developed countries are apparently non-objective as in the course of the investigation there was chosen a group of countries, which had almost the same comparable in time market volumes peculiarities of formation and development.
In the process of investigation we used, first of all, data published by the World Bank estimating the condition of savings and investments enviroment in the world financial system; second, data presented by Standard & Poor's classification analyzing situation in the so-called "frontier markets", to which the Ukrainian financial market belongs; and, finally, accounting data by the State panel of the capital issues and the Ukrainian stock market.

The world savings and investments.
One of the main functions of the financial market is mobilization of temporarily free financial resources of households, market participants, state institutions, foreign investors, and the transformation of these resources into financial capital. This function can be seen in the following: temporarily free financial resources in form of public savings, i.e. cash and other financial resources of the households, market participants, state institutions, not spent on resource utilization and real investment, are drawn to be effectively used in the country's economy by the financial market mechanism. Based on the World Bank data it was defined that the average savings dynamics in the world economy is sufficiently stable ranging from 20,4% to 22,8% (Global Development Finance, 2007). It is lower compared with the level of savings in the developed countries. During 2000-2002 the saving ratio in the GDP gradually decreased, but since 2003 the year-on-year stable criteria growth can be noticed.
One should mention that USA experience the lowest savings level in comparison with the regions of the world economy. The savings rate of the GDP is ranging from 13,4% to 18,0% alongside with the opposite tendency of the index in economically developed countries in general, while the savings share has increased since 2003, in USA such tendency has started to form only since 2005.
The highest savings level can be observed in the Middle East countries where since 2002 the savings share in GDP has significantly grown. Such phenomenon is explained by the oil prices dynamics since the countries of this region have the largest oil pools in the world. Moreover, this tendency to grow is taking place in other Asian developing countries. Analyzing the figures of economically developed countries one can conclude that they are rather stable and without significant fluctuations. The coefficients dynamics of the gross savings in the economical sectors of the Group of Seven has an opposite tendency. If the private and the household sectors gradually minimize the savings volume the corporations on the modern stage maximize it, which again confirms the above said conclusions.
There exist different kinds of connection between regions and world tendency according to the savings share measured in % of GDP of a certain country or region. The defined coefficient values of correlation, presented in Table 1, show the different dependence levels of correlations between savings volumes in different countries (from maximum on the level of the functional connection to reverse with the opposite tendency of the separate region or the world economy on the whole) for the 2000-2006 period. Having examined the dynamics correlation between the world savings and different regions, one can conclude that for the period under investigation the maximal interconnection was with Canada -0,981, so it can be called the functional one. In USA the savings index (% to GDP) has the lowest correlation level with the world index and one of the lowest among the regions.
Thus, in the economically developed countries, such as France, Italy, Great Britain there is a reverse relationship as the correlation coefficients are of negative value. It means that with the world savings index growth the marked index in these countries decreases. Having investigated the correlation indecises in the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, to which Ukraine belongs, and other regions, the Commonwealth of Independent States has the highest correlation level with Japan. There exists the direct correlation with other regions of the mentioned countries with the exception of Italy and Great Britain, where the correlation is negative. As for the correlation index of savings change Ukraine has the tightest connection with Italy being almost functional. The high correlation level of savings is observed in Ukraine and the countries of Euro Area -0,711.
At the same time one should mention that the major part of savings, formed in Ukraine, belongs to the households, which share in the sum of net savings is gradually increasing. In 2003 they owned only 45,92%, in 2005 -72,67% of the overall volume of net savings in a given country. This fact is to certain extent an evidence of forming the features of market economy in Ukraine. Unlike the countries with developed financial market the Ukrainian savings structure of population denotes the absence of effective financial market. According to the structure of financial assets of households almost 88% belongs to cash and deposits, and only 9,69% -stocks and other types of interest. It means that a considerate part of financial resources at households' disposal underwork the effective realization of the financial market opportunities. The reasons for that are the existence of considerable risks in the domestic economy conditioned by unstable political and economic situation, legal exposure of populations' operations placing the temporarily free financial resources as well as lack of financial competence and experience in forming relations with the financial market, more exactly, with the financial intermediaries. In the Soviet times there existed deposit commitments into the banking institutions but actually there was no financial market and nowadays despite the low confidence level people cooperate with banking institutions. As for the cooperation with financial intermediaries, which redistribute resources through the financial market, they are at the initial stage. Additionally, in the domestic scientific literature little attention is paid to the role of households as a serious potential investor.
Along with the savings indices it is necessary to analyze the investments indices as they are the basis of the further extended reflection in economy. In this case the level of relations of the investments indices between regions differs greatly from the relations level of savings. Finance globalization has formed an economic system with chronic financial deficit and now provides its functioning. There exists a number of economies of scarcity that acquire the debt character with big share of loan capital in form of foreign capital entry and accumulated liabilities. Promissory economies are characterized by increasing volume of external debt and payments: new borrowings and payments service operations are becoming an important factor of their functioning and one of the major trends of the state policy.
In the modern world economy one can distinguish several types of economies of scarcity and promissory/debt economies depending on level of debt promissory loading, dependence, volume and structure of attracted foreign resources as well as external debts and payments. Economic systems of developed and developing countries as well as those with transitional economies with scarce and promissory characteristics differ greatly from one another according to qualitative criteria. A lot of developed and developing countries with net external debt have rather high economic results receiving constant entry of foreign resources by means of direct investments placing shares among non-residents and by means of borrowings in the international credit markets.
Recently the world economy has been functioning in a scarce mode with permanent negative balance of the world current accounts and exceeding the world investments over the world savings (Fig. 1). The average data for the world regions and separate countries for the period of 2000-2006 were calculated on the basis of the World Bank data and they confirm the above mentioned facts.
As it is seen the world economy is generally characterized by predominance of investments over savings -0,24% from the amount of GDP. The same situation is observed in economically developed countries, especially in USA, where investments prevail over savings at a 4,84% rate, presenting the maximum share among economically developed countries.
But in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Near East the situation is quite different, where savings prevail at a 8,83% and 9,93% rate respectively.
Concluding the above said information, it should be said that it is necessary to analyze the development of financial markets taking into consideration the period of their existence and the amount of market capitalization. The Ukrainian financial market will be expediently to compare first of all with markets having approximately the same volume of capitalization and newly formed ones especially in the countries of the former "socialistic camp". classification, the Ukrainian market belongs to "frontier markets". Markets of the developing countries are divided into "developing markets" and "frontier markets". The term "developing market" denotes equity market on a transitional stage of development characterizing by growth, increase of activity level, complicated infrastructure and complying with at least one of the following criteria: 1) functioning in countries with low or medium income levels according to the World Bank classification; 2) having not significant real capitalization (compared to the current GDP of a country) with possibility of investments. The countries with developing markets (according to S&P classification) are Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Russia and Turkey.
To "frontier markets" belong ones which are extremely small and non-liquid to be developing markets, or the least developed among the latter. The Frontier-index of S&P comprises 20 market, the total capitalization of which makes 32 billion US dollars, less than 1% of the total sum of the world market capitalization -Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bulgaria. The correlation analysis (Table 3) shows that the countries were correctly chosen for the analysis, as in most cases the market capitalization index of Ukraine has a high level of correlation dependence.
At the same time index of USA intentionally embedded in a calculation shows the senseless of comparing the world financial market leader with other countries, as almost in every case the correlation coefficient is 0.5 or lower. Concerning the market capitalization share in the GDP the indices presented in Table 4 are of no importance in comparison with developed countries. This fact also proves that in the given countries financial markets are at the initial stage of their development. Financial market of Croatia demonstrates the biggest and rather stable tendency, the share of which increased twice during 4 years (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006). Ukraine also demonstrates rather stable and build-up rates of the said index, which grew almost in 4 times for the same period. Such swift growth is accompanied by substantial risks intensified with unstable political situation in the country. This requires enforcing the regulation policy and financial flow control.
At a time when the index of market capitalization share of GDP is relatively stable the dynamics of the market capitalization volume index is quite irregular. Table 5 presents the increase rates of market capitalization indices, which are unstable and have uncertain tendency not only in Ukraine but also in other countries. Unstable dynamics is also seen in other countries with abrupt variation from negative to positive indices and vice versa. It is the evidence of immature financial market in these countries.
The market capitalization and volume of GDP rates of growth in Ukraine differ greatly (Fig. 2). The reasons of such situation in the Ukrainian financial market are as follows: 1) short period of existence (the features of financial market appearance actually emerged at the beginning of 90s of the 20th century; 2) the absence of the practical experience of government regulation of financial intermediaries and their operations as well as working out legislative base by trials and errors; 3) considerable violations in legislation and wheelerdealer finance of intermediaries, absence of trust from people concerning operations in the finance market; 4) the absence of strategy of financial market development, which breaks the balance of issuers', financial intermediaries and investors activities.

Conclusion
The mechanism of financial market must provide transformation of temporarily free financial resources, which are in form of public savings, into investments for the economy sake. Analysis based on savings and investments data correlation as in the world economy as in particular countries, brought to the conclusion that in most cases their moving has opposite directions in different regions. Besides, globalization of finance has formed economic system with chronic financial deficit and provides its functioning. A number of national scarce economies acquire the debt character with big share of credit resources in foreign resources entry and in accumulated liabilities. The debt economic systems are characterized with increasing volume of the external debt and payments. New borrowings and payments coverings become an important requirement of their functioning and one of the major trends of government policy.
According to Standard & Poor's classification Ukrainian market belongs to the "frontier markets", i.e. it is at the transitional stage of development, marked by growth, increased activity level and complicated infrastructure, and also meets at least one of two criteria: 1) it is functioning in the country with low or medium income level according to Standard & Poor's classification; 2) it is marked by insignificant capitalization (with a possibility of investments) compared to the current GDP. Ukraine with relatively stable share of market capitalization into GDP has irregular dynamics of index of market capitalization volume. For effective development of financial market in Ukraine it is necessary to provide economic as well as social conditions, i.e. to identify the strategic trends of development, to regulate a legislative base in accordance with a chosen strategic model, and to work out measures that would promote restoring confidence towards financial institutions.