The purpose of this article is to present the activities of credit rating agencies and their impact on the processes of accountability to invest in the wider economy. The global crisis has shown the importance of the activities of credit rating agencies. These companies, assessing the...

Modern finance has become a very complicated field, which raises many questions about its economic and social mission. Many bankers’ ignorance of complex knowledge and care for the future are hostile ingredients that transform the markets’ volatility, through spillover effects, into economic...

Many countries, including Poland, have been struggling with increasing state debt. The economists noted that the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 significantly impacted the level of foreign debt of these countries. The aim of the study is an analyse of Polish foreign debt in recent years as...

This article has a following thesis: changes in banking and a role of banks in real economy in last years, give an argument for treating banks as public good. Banks received a great support from governments as a result of the subprime crisis. G-20 and European Commission recommended new...

Crisis concept links up to its appearance area. Some different kinds and levels of crises have been found: we face with global, mainly nature cataclysm crises, state economic crises, corporate crises and individual or psychological crises. The research area of this paper is micro level, i.e....