Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance

Chapter 1. The relationship between ethnic diversity and stock market development: A global perspective.- Chapter 2. Does Withholding Tax Reduce International Income-Shifting by FDI?.- Chapter 3. The relationship between trading volume and returns volatility on Warsaw Stock Exchange.- Chapter 4. Factors influencing individual investor participation in stock market.- Chapter 5. Model Risk of VaR and ES using Monte Carlo: Study on Financial Institutions from Paris and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges.- Chapter 6. Tick Size Reduction and Liquidity Dimensions – Evidence from an Emerging Market.- Chapter 7. Cryptocurrency portfolio construction using machine learning models.- Chapter 8. Development factors of blockchain technology within banking sector.- Chapter 9. Does competition matter for the effects of macroprudential policy on bank asset growth?.- Chapter 10. Systemic risk in selected countries of Western and Central Europe.- Chapter 11. Industry and Size Effect in the Relation between Corporate Material and Financial Decisions: Findings from the EU Countries.- Chapter 12. Technology level and financial constraints of public listed companies.- Chapter 13. Differences in use of credit products between the old and new member states of the European Union.- Chapter 14. Diversified risky financial assets in portfolios of risk-averse households – what determines their occurrence?.- Chapter 15. Financial Behavior: Preliminary Survey Results.