Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance : Proceedings from the 3rd Wroclaw International Conference in Finance

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements for the risk of binary options -- Part II: Stock Market Investments -- Relationships between returns in EU equity markets in 2005-2016: implications for portfolio risk diversification -- The relationships between beta coefficients in the classical and downside framework: Evidence from Warsaw Stock Exchange -- Intraday Trading Patterns on the Warsaw Stock Exchange -- Testing Stability of Correlations between Liquidity Proxies Derived from Intraday Data on the Warsaw Stock Exchange -- Validating Downside Accounting Beta: Evidence from the Polish Construction Industry -- Part III: International Finance -- Application of S-curve and modified S-curve in transition economies’ GDP forecasting. Visegrad Four countries case -- Financialization of commodity markets -- Part IV: Banking -- The production or intermediation approach? ‒ it matters -- Competitiveness and Concentration of the Banking Sector as a Measure of Banks’ Credit Ratings -- Different approaches to regulatory capital calculation for operational risk -- Assessment of Systemic Risk in the Polish Banking Industry -- Contemporary Challenges in the Asset Liability Management -- Part V: Corporate Finance -- Does it pay off to change the CEO? Changes in operating performance - preliminary results -- The capitalistic firm as a system that produces economic and social values -- Corporate cash holdings and tax changes. Evidence from some CEE countries -- Determinants of Capital Structure across European Countries -- Profitability of serial acquirers on the Polish capital market -- Failure Models for Insolvency and Bankruptcy -- Part VI: Personal Finance -- Parental Influence on Financial Knowledge of University Students -- Does Households’ Financial Well-being Determine the Levels of Their Sight Deposits under Turmoil?