Banks in Poland in the face of new regulations on executive remuneration

Author(s): Agnieszka Słomka-Gołębiowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which the current practice of rewarding bank executives in Poland differs from international benchmarks, taking into account the most recent Polish regulations, in force since 2012. The question is whether the new legal rules will have a signifi cant impact on the structure of executive compensation in banks. The paper describes recent recommendations of international organizations on how to regulate executive pay in the financial services industry, and compares them with the legal initiatives introduced in Poland. I also discuss the merits of such regulation in order to assess whether it can achieve the stated objectives. In the following section the findings related to executive remuneration practices in banks in the face of the new regulation will be presented. The final section presents the conclusions drawn.

Independent supervisory board members in Polish public banks

Author(s): Agata Wieczorek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The objective of this paper is to determine to what extent the banks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) observe the regulations concerning the appointment of independent supervisory board members as well as whether the members meeting the criteria of independence are appropriately educated and have qualifications to perform their tasks on supervisory boards.

Should Polish banks be domesticated

Author(s): Krzysztof Postrach / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

For many years now we have seen the process of introducing EU regulations aimed at integrating the banking systems of the Member States. Now, the work which was undertaken because of the recent financial crisis with a view to enhancing the banks’ safety is coming to an end. Polish banks are members of international capital groups as subsidiaries and this fact gives rise to problems resulting from the centralization of capital and liquidity management at the level of the group as well as the centralization of supervision in the European Union. The recent financial crisis has highlighted these issues and sparked a debate concerning the fact that most Polish banks are dependent on their foreign headquarters. The question is whether the current ownership structure of banks operating in Poland is beneficial for the Polish economy and whether there is an alternative solution to this situation. The ownership structure of these banks has lately been questioned. There are many arguments in favour of making these banks independent rather than subsidiaries of other banks. This alternative is known as bank domestication. Re-Polonization of banks is also discussed. The domestication of banks is understood as the process by which the share of locally controlled and managed banks in the assets of the banking sector will increase.

Receivership in banking: Theory and practice

Author(s): Piotr Masiukiewicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The thesis of the paper is as follows: receivership management is an effective legal and managerial instrument for rehabilitation of banks, but regulations in this field are insufficient in Poland.

The main bank system as part of Japanese corporate governance

Author(s): Magdalena Jerzemowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Japanese banks play a major role in gathering savings, allocating capital, monitoring investment decisions taken by the management of companies functioning within the main bank system, and managing risk. The assessment of these relationships and their impact on the growth of business and economy is not clear, both in theory and practice.

Auto/narrative as a Means of Structuring Human Experience

Author(s): Katarzyna Gajek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Autobiographical Strategy and Attitude of Halina Birenbaum as a Form of Passing on a Witness of the Holocaust

Author(s): Katarzyna Olszewska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Anthropological Study of Memoirs of Ethnic Minority Members (On the Example of the Lemko Diaries): Methodological Proposals

Author(s): Patrycja Trzeszczyńska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

“Writing is as much as Picking out and Passing over”: Traces of a Diary in Ryszard Kapuściński’s Lapidarium

Author(s): Wioletta Bogucka / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Narratives on the Choice of Studies as Cultural Stories: On the Example of Interviews with the Alumni of the Warsaw Schoolof Economics

Author(s): Karolina J. Dudek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Horizon―Conversion―Narration: Identity and Otherness in the Scientific World of the Humanists

Author(s): Andrzej Paweł Wejland / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Biographical Epiphanies in the Context of Laying the Foundations of the Qualitative Thought Collective

Author(s): Marcin Kafar / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Living in Relations: Biographies of Scientists in the Context of the Actor Network Theory

Author(s): Michał Wróblewski / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Thinking―Commitment―Assimilation: Biographical Themes in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman

Author(s): Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Michel Foucault as a Heterotopia

Author(s): Marcin Kafar / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

A Byzantine Settlement on the Kalabaklı Valley in the Hellespont: Yağcılar

Author(s): Ayşe Ç. Türker / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Kalabaklı Valley is an approximately 12-km-long valley which extends towards the Hellespont in the south-east — north-west direction between 440-meter-high Bayraktepe in its north-east and 407-meter-high Beşiktepe in its south. Located in the south of the point at which the Kalabaklı Tributary reached the strait, Dardanos was an episcopal center in the Byzantine period. Probably, the settlement of the episcopacy of Dardanos also spread to Kepez in the north of the point at which the river reached the strait. Kepez has an important port, and numerous Byzantine glazed pottery items were detected during our surveys in this area. Vessels which were very analogous to the pottery in this area in terms of their paste, shape, and decoration characteristics were documented during the surveys we carried on in the Yağcılar Village in the upper section of the Kalabaklı Valley. Yağcılar, which we first detected during our surveys, has very rich surface materials, and the quality of the finds indicates that a production center probably existed.

Byzantine Glazed Pottery Finds from Aigai (Aiolis) Excavations

Author(s): Lale Doğer,Muhsine Eda Armağan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Glazed pottery finds from Aigai (Aiolis) excavations during 2004—2014 seasons are important finds from Byzantine settlements of Aigai ancient city. While doing studies to uncover Bouleuterion, Agora region and the road system of the ancient city, cisterns (nos. I—II) located in the acropolis of the city and near the agora, the church and the cistern in the northwest of the church have been discovered. Most of them are fragmentary. They are not contextual finds. Still, they are worthwhile in that they present a relative chronology. Late Roman/Early Byzantine period is represented with few finds for now. This period is followed by Middle Byzantine period which have again few finds. Probably these red fabric groups might have come from distant regions. Some of the finds known as Middle Byzantine groups are distinguished because of their similarity to Khalkis production in terms of their form and ornament. We need further information to evaluate white fabric finds. Other distinctive groups in terms of their quality and quantity are from Late Byzantine period of Western Anatolia. These are very similar to the finds from Pergamon, Sardis, Nif (Olympus-Başpınar Church) and The Agora of Smyrna located nearby Aigai. Aigai was on the list of bishopric till the early 13th century. Finds uncovered in Aigai are the first archeological data regarding Aigai ancient city during Byzantine period. Glazed ceramics must be dated to the mid-12th century — early 14th century.

Immured Vessels in the Church of Panagia Eleousa, Kitharida, Crete

Author(s): Anastasia G. Yangaki / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper focuses on the detailed presentation of the numerous vessels which are immured in the main wall of the narthex of the church of Panagia Eleousa. The church is located to the north of the village of Kitharida, southwest of Herakleion (Crete). Given their number, their state of preservation, the various categories of pottery to which they belong which were imported from regions of the western and eastern Mediterranean, the particular interest in their disposition and possible hidden symbolic meanings behind their decoration, the vessels constitute one of the most representative groups of bacini immured in Cretan churches. This is corroborated by comparison with the immured vessels from other sites in the Herakleion prefecture and based on the data collected by the research programme focused on bacini in Greece implemented by the National Hellenic Research Foundation in collaboration with the local Ephorates of Antiquities from other Cretan churches.Their detailed study contributes to the history of the church and to the presentation of the types of pottery that were in circulation on the island in the 15th c. AD. Some of these bacini were produced in Byzantine workshops, while most belong to glazed categories imported from the Iberian and Italian peninsulas or the Near East. Special reference is made to their seemingly careful disposition, which would have required specific planning. This observation, combined with the particular decoration on some vessels, which seems to incorporate symbolic meanings, leads to suggestions as to the possible donor who played the leading role in this decoration.

Do ‘Professional’ and ‘Non-Professional’ Dimensions of Biography Really Exist? Deliberations Based upon The Autobiographical Novel by Michał Głowiński: A Reflection Written for Two Voices

Author(s): Marcin Maria Bogusławski,Monika Modrzejewska-Świgulska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Ethnographic Experience and the Politics of Situatedness

Author(s): Marta Songin-Mokrzan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0