Download or read book Financial Market Drift written by Lukas Menkhoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International financial markets play an increasingly important role. There can be no doubt that over the past twenty years the size of financial markets have grown at a faster pace than the size of the markets for goods and services. However, it is still unclear whether this is a desirable development. This book discusses the debate on the possible separation of the financial sector and real economy. The text makes use of established scientific research.