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IX Wrocław Conference in Finance — Programme
Wrocław University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Finance • ul. Komandorska 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław
Day 1 — Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Room: 1 CKU • Chair: Marek Kośny
Krzysztof Jajuga
Science and practice of financial markets — from Bachelier to AI
Sławomir Śmiech
From Energy Markets to Household Bill
Systemic risk and banking sector stability
Room: 208 CKU • Chair: Dariusz Wawrzyniak
Karkowska, Korzeb, Niedziółka, Nistor
Does Individualism Matter for Foreign Ownership in Banking?
Boda, Karaś, Stachura
Systemic Tail Risk and Dynamic Capital Adjustment in African Banks
Boda, Karaś, Stachura
How Systemic Risk Shapes European Banks’ Capital Strength Through Crises
Corporate Finance, Valuation, and Power in the Global Financial System
Room: 212 CKU • Chair: Tomasz Słoński
Mizerka
Ownership structure and real earnings management. Meta-regression analysis
Radło
Weaponized Finance as Transactional Power: Dollar Centrality, Payment Infrastructures, and Extraterritorial Control
Richard Van Horne
Why Do US Stocks Always Look Expensive?
Cryptoassets, commodities and speculative bubbles
Room: 102 CKU • Chair: Katarzyna Kuziak
Będowska-Sójka, Kasperek
How to detect bubbles in metals prices?
Szczepaniak
Asset Price Bubbles in Efficient and Adaptive Markets
Mercik, Będowska-Sójka
When Markets Never Sleep: Intraday Liquidity Patterns and Volatility Effects in Cryptocurrency Trading
Market risk measurement: VaR, expectiles, quantiles
Room: 208 CKU • Chair: Barbara Będowska-Sójka
Krawczyk, Piontek
Backtesting Value-at-Risk: Kupiec Test under Classical, Bayesian, and E-value Paradigms
Krężołek, Piontek
Quantile market risk models and VaR model testing
Janczura
Expectile based risk forecasting for optimal trading in short-term electricity markets
Banking
Room: 212 CKU • Chair: Agnieszka Wójcik-Mazur
Mrzygłód, Skała, Rachuba
Gender quotas in bank boards: Evidence from post-communist countries
Kowalewski, Mrzygłód, Rachuba, Skała
Bank dividends and shareholders: payouts in adverse conditions
Wawrzyniak
Strong Customer Authentication in Polish Online Banking (PSD3/PSR)
Sustainable Finance, ESG and the Energy Transition
Room: 102 CKU • Chair: Radosław Pietrzyk
Rozwadowska, Ryszawska, Szymański
From barriers to conditions: Financial and institutional prerequisites for energy communities
Frydrych, Kliber
Divergent Integration of ESG Risk in Credit Rating Downgrades
Aboluwodi, McCullough, Muzindutsi
Policy Uncertainty and Sustainable Finance: Carbon and Renewable Energy Markets (MS-MIDAS)
Day 2 — Thursday, 21 May 2026
Forecasting and Machine Learning
Room: 208 CKU • Chair: Krzysztof Piontek
Dudek
Integrating Exogenous Information into Deep Neural Networks for Financial Prediction
Pietrzyk, Dudek, Pełka, Kasprzyk, Fiszeder
Wykorzystanie danych z wielu źródeł do prognozowania zmienności rynkowej (VIX)
Górka, Kuziak
When Diversification Fails: Tail Connectedness Across Financial Assets
Capital Markets
Room: 212 CKU • Chair: Marek Pauka
Nowak, Sun, Tarsalewska
Does board gender diversity matter for short sellers?
Słoński, Mercik
Model Risk and Nonstandard Errors in Finance: New Challenges for Business Valuation
Poburko, Synyutka, Kolomiiets
The Corporate Bond Market and Ukraine’s Economic Recovery (Polish comparison)
Social and behavioural aspects of finance
Room: 209 CKU • Chair: Bożena Ryszawska
Sekścińska, Jaworska, Szymańska
Financial Health of Europeans
Hybka, Trębecki, Rydzak
Socio-Economic Determinants of the Climate and Financial Debate (Polish municipalities, Facebook)
Rozwadowska, Prędkiewicz, Dramińska, Bem
Who Gets Counted? Gender, Prestige, and Knowledge Production in Polish Economic Universities
Fiscal policy
Room: 208 CKU • Chair: Agnieszka Bem
Giżyński
Rising defence expenditures in the eurozone vs new fiscal surveillance
Marska-Dzioba
Forgotten burdensome legacy — the Solidarity Fund increasing instability
Hadro
From Stars to Stables: Integrating Web Reputation and AI into Hotel Insolvency Prediction Models
Financing and Cost of Capital (Polish session)
Room: 212 CKU • Chair: Paweł Kliber
Trzebiński
Generating added value for shareholders using equity-based crowdfunding
Kowalik
Evolution of the general subsidy in individual German states 2015–2025
Balcerzak
Are Size, Value and Momentum Risk Factors Priced on the Polish Equity Market?
Risk and Global Markets
Room: 209 CKU • Chair: Aleksander Mercik
Piontek, Rokita
Model risk in VaR backtesting: power of independence tests in small samples
Hudaszek
Sentiment Spillover in Cryptocurrency Markets: A Reddit-Based Analysis
Hossa ProCapital
Student investment funds
Room: 1 CKU • Chair: Krzysztof Jajuga
Michał Zator
Bank Branch Density and Fragility
Adam Zaremba
A Unified Framework for Anomalies Based on Daily Returns