Agata Gemzik-Salwach is the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences at the University of Information Technology and Management (UITM), for Economics, Finance and Accounting, Management Courses, Poland.Krzysztof Opolski is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Banking, Finance and Accountancy at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

• IntroductionAgata Gemzik-Salwach and Krzysztof OpolskiPart I. Financialization: impact on the structure of economy and economic mechanismsChapter 1. Financialization and economic and social performance Malcolm SawyerChapter 2. Developing and emerging countries as finance providers: foreign exchange reserves and direct investment to the European UnionJan Toporowski and Bruno BonizziChapter 3. Does sustainable global prosperity require global financial governance?Gary A. Dymski Chapter 4. The macroeconomic determinants of financial literacy in the European Union (on the example of numeracy skills) Tomasz Potocki and Krzysztof Opolski Part II. Financialization: impact on financial institutions and financial marketsChapter 5. Bank failures and their implications for payment intermediation in conditions of financializationAnna Iwańczuk-KaliskaChapter 6. The Franc Zone: can the operations account mechanism survive the push for financial deepening?Christina LaskaridisChapter 7. Alternative investment funds under new financial and legislative reality and Russian specificOksana Martanus and Elena Merekina Chapter 8. Financial risk and financializationAndrzej SzopaPart III.Financialization: impact on society, households and companiesChapter 9. Inequality in the twenty-first century – in need of a new theory?Hanna K. SzymborskaChapter 10. Financialization and household debt in PolandAgata Gemzik-SalwachChapter 11. Financial exclusion and rationality of financial behaviour in view of financializationMarta Maciejasz-Świątkiewicz Chapter 12. The sources of corporate savings in the era of financializationAnna Białek-Jaworska

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