This paper investigates information embedded in the most liquid derivative instruments regarding the scope of convergence reported on the financial market in the emerging CEE countries. We present a proposal of the index that measures the scale of convergence between local and global derivative...

The aim of the article is to present the current state of efforts to reform financial market indexes, with a particular reference to how the proposed changes would affect the money market. Financial market indexes must be reformed under a Regulation of the European Parliament on indices used as...

IBOR manipulation imposed new benchmark regulations that force the market to enter a path of a reform of existing financial indices and creation of the new ones. The paper describes an evolution of two IBOR panels: one representing a global financial benchmark: LIBOR and the other representing a...

As a result of the crisis of confidence in the financial markets caused by events that took place in the years 2007-2008 and later fiscal problems in the peripheral countries of the European Union, banks lost their ability of refinancing based on unsecured interbank deposits. This contributed to...

The paper presents examples of application of error correction models (ECM) in forecasting daily changes of market volatility recorded on currency options markets in Poland, Hungary and South Africa. The models are based on the observed correlation between daily changes of spot rates and daily...

Market makers are key entities providing liquidity to the market. Their activity has influence on transaction costs that are expressed mainly by bid-ask spreads. On unregulated markets a research is quite often cumbersome due to lack of transparent data. The paper presents factors having...

The crisis has shown that a drop in liquidity, as well as the shortened maturity of interbank transactions, has caused many problems for banks. We analyze how the introduction of a bank levy on bank assets in Poland has affected the interbank market, as well as money market pricing. Analyzing...