Modele rozwoju rynku kapitałowego w Państwach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

Well-developed capital markets are an important element of the economy, as a source of financing for enterprises complementary to the banking system. In addition, they perform other important functions: they allow the valuation of capital and risk, facilitate the transfer of ownership of shares, and are also a place of investment and speculation. The markets of developed countries are often subjected to various analyses, which allow to assess both the state of development of these markets and their functioning. There are much fewer such analysis for emerging markets. The least-researched markets in this area are Central and Eastern Europe. In order to at least partially fill this gap, analysis of the development of organized stock exchange markets in these countries in the period 2006-2017 was carried out. A wide territorial scope was adopted – the study covered: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Hungary. The data used to conduct the analysis came from a large number of secondary sources, such as the websites of the exchanges themselves, their annual reports, scientific publications, studies and reports of consulting companies, as well as databases of international organizations. The results of the analysis show that the stock exchanges from the Central and Eastern Europe region followed three paths: (1) they chose organic development, focusing on operational independence, (2) joined regional alliances, (3) became global alliance participants. The results of research on changes that took place on these exchanges between 2006 and 2017 prove that none of the solutions led to full success. These results also indicate that the stock exchanges generally coped better with overcoming barriers on the supply side (the number of issuers and the company's average value increased on part of the markets) than on the demand side (both the volume and the speed of turn decreased on almost all exchanges).