Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance

<p>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.-&nbsp;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.-&nbsp;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.-&nbsp;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.-&nbsp;PART &nbsp;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.</p>