Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance

Krzysztof Jajuga is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Financial Investments and Risk Management at Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland. He obtained his doctoral degree in Economics from the same university in 1982. At the beginning of his scientific career he received a Fulbright grant to study at Stanford University, Department of Statistics. He has since been a visiting professor at many universities in the USA, as well as in Europe and China. His main research interests are in financial econometrics, capital markets, and risk analysis and management. Among others he holds the position of President of the CFA Society Poland.Karsten Staehr is a Professor of Economics at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and also a research supervisor at the Bank of Estonia. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Copenhagen. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, international finance, public economics and transition studies. He is an associate editor of the Baltic Journal of Economics and serves on the editorial board of Post-Communist Economies and Economic Systems.Lucjan T. Orłowski is a Professor of Economics and International Finance, as well as the Program Director for the DBA in Finance at John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University, USA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. He has been a visiting professor and research fellow at many international institutions and universities. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany. He has been an advisor to many institutions and governments, including the Czech National Bank, Hungarian National Bank, and Argentinian Central Bank. He specializes in monetary and fiscal policy, macro-finance, and transition and growth in post-communist countries.   Hermann Locarek-Junge has been a Professor of Finance and Financial Services at the TU Dresden since 1995. He completed his PhD at the University of Augsburg, Germany in 1987. He also studied Business Informatics and was appointed a Professor in that field at Essen University in 1991. Since then, he has been a visiting professor and research fellow at various international institutions and universities. Throughout his career, he has done research work for several banks and organizations, including Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Sparkasse Dresden, Union Investment, and the German National Research Foundation (DFG).

• PART I: Banking.- The Role of a Reference Yield Fitting Technique in the Fund Transfer Pricing Mechanism.- Towards a Generalized Measure of Systemic Risk: Systemic Turbulence Measure.- Determinants of Loans Growth in Cooperative Banks in Poland: Does Capital Ratio Matter?.- Analysis of Determinants of Liquidity Risk in Polish Banking Sector.- PART II: Commodity Market.- The Post-Crisis Insight into Nickel Pricing on the London Metal Exchange.- Impact of Macroeconomic and Financial Factors on the Commodity Price Indexes in the Context of Financialization.- PART III: Corporate Finance.- Conceptual framework for lending money outside business groups. Evidence from Poland.- The Lohmann-Ruchti Effect in the Development of Corporate Capital.- Reconsidering the Profitability–Capital Structure Relation: Findings from Poland.- Presaging a Déjà Vu… The Impact of Leverage and Investment on Operating Performance Under Negative Demand-Driven Shocks.- PART IV: Financial Market.- The Application of Two-Stage Diversification to Portfolios From the WSE.- Verification of the Conditional CAPM: the Example of the Polish Capital Market.- Market-Wide Commonality in Liquidity on the CEE-3 Emerging Stock Markets.- Accounting Beta in the Extended Version of CAPM.- The Impact of Fundamental Investment Fund Features on the Level of Risk.- PART  V: Other areas of Finance.- Understanding the Overfunding in Crowdfinancing – the Elements of Attractiveness.- Valuation of Household Losses in Child’s Death Cases for Insurance Purposes.- Public or Private? Which Source of Financing Helps to Achieve Higher Health System Efficiency?.- Innovation System in a Global Context: A Panel Approach.