ABSTRACT
Financial Derivatives emerged in the 1970s to meet the needs of risk management.
Till the 1990s with the rapid financial innovation, financial derivatives became the start
in the financial market. Unfortunately, the excessive expansion of financial derivatives
in 2008 triggered a unexpected global financial crisis. We can not contribute financial
crisis to financial derivatives, but the truth cannot be denied that financial derivatives
worsen the crisis. China is an emerging market economies, the domestic derivatives
market is only limited in commodity futures. We can not deny the positive role of
financial derivatives because of the financial crisis. Instead, it is advisable for us to get
lessons from this crisis, summarize the experience, and continuously sound basis for
market construction, thus planning out the financial derivatives market development
path which is suitable for Chinese national conditions.
Firstly, relevant concepts are explained here, such as financial derivatives, the
classification and characteristics of financial derivatives to provide a theoretical
foundation for the study of financial derivatives. Meanwhile, I went through the
development of today's financial derivatives market by a brief review comparing the
derivatives of two different development paths, which provide a realistic reference for
the development of China's financial derivatives.
Secondly, derivatives innovation output model is established from an economic
point of view, with the conclusion that over innovation on financial derivatives resulted
in financial crisis. The development of derivatives should be consistent with the real
economy to guarantee sound economic development. Furthermore, I made a
comprehensive analysis on the causes of the financial crisis, as well as the status of
derivatives in the financial crisis. It has great reference value for China's development
of financial derivatives.
Thirdly, the paper briefly reviews the development of China's financial derivatives.
By the Sino-US comparison of the financial ecology, I think China has some
after-advantages, although there are some negative factors in the development path.
Based on this, I think mandatory evolution model is more suitable for China.
Government should play an important role in it, including making an overall plan for
financial derivatives development, supervision model selection, the establishment of
risk control system and so on.