Finansjalizacja a zmiana matrycy instytucjonalnej

The article focuses on the problem of so called “financialization”. The applied method of analysis of this issue is rarely used in finance – the mechanism of the institutional changes that has been used is the one elaborated in the field of the New Institutional Economics (NIE). The starting point of this article is the short recapitulation of very different and broad meanings of the two essential categories: the institutional matrix and its change, and the financialization itself, which can be found in the literature. Another part of the article is the study of the most important trends which are both the causes and the consequences of changes that have been affecting the process of financialization in recent decades. The findings of the analysis lead to the conclusion that financialization means not only change in behaviour of financial market participants, but that is the stable element of social life.