14-1. what are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them? Financial markets are institutions and procedures that facilitate transactions in all types of financial claims. (Financial Management: Principles and Applications) This is a mechanism that is used to facilitate the transfer of savings from those economic units with a surplus to those with a deficit. If we didn’t have financial markets people or companies couldn’t buy houses, life
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