"Financial innovation is like a virus, finding weaknesses in existing inventive schemes and regulations. When something is growing very fast, that suggests they have found a weakness." - Jeremy Stein Harvard University.
This is one way to think about financial innovation, but it is not very appealing. It argues that innovation is just an attempt to evade regulation. There is no doubt that some goals of innovation are evasion, but there are also other reasons, such as market efficiency. Nonetheless, one can argue that regulation reduces efficiency, and innovation attempts to address the problem. If the problem is corrected, there will be more growth in innovation. Securitization, derivatives, and ETFs are all significant innovations that make the markets more efficient, while also addressing regulatory concerns.
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