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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- PART 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.