Programme and Entrance to the Conference

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IX Wrocław Conference in Finance — Programme

Day 1 — Wednesday, 20 May 2026

9:45 – 11:15 | PLENARY SESSION I

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

11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee break
11:45 – 13:15 | PLENARY SESSION II — 70th Birthday Jubilee of Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Jajuga
13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 | PARALLEL SESSIONS I

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

15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15 | PARALLEL SESSIONS II

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)

19:00 | Gala Dinner — Spiż. Microbrewery and Restaurant

Day 2 — Thursday, 21 May 2026

9:30 – 11:00 | PARALLEL SESSIONS III

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

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 | PARALLEL SESSIONS IV

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

13:00 – 14:00 | PLENARY SESSION III

Room: 1 CKU  •  Chair: Krzysztof Jajuga

Michał Zator

Bank Branch Density and Fragility

Adam Zaremba

A Unified Framework for Anomalies Based on Daily Returns

14:00 – 14:15 | CONFERENCE CLOSING
14:15 – 15:00 | Lunch