Rafał Balina

• PhD
• Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Our study examines the relationship between the management board compensation and corporate philanthropy in financial institutions. By analyzing a sample of 240 cooperative banks over six years, the research investigates the impact of management board compensation on the level and extent of corporate philanthropy these institutions undertake. To es...

Aim: The study aims to find an answer to the question of whether and how the economic indicators in the industrial processing, construction, trade, and services sectors reflect changes in the market size related to investments and working capital loans for micro-enterprises. Methods: The study used data on investment and working capital loans and d...

The energy security of each country is one of the main factors of its proper functioning. Currently, in the era of problems related to energy security resulting from, among other things, the war in Ukraine, this topic is particularly important. This article presents issues related to Poland’s energy security, understood as the financial and economi...

The main aim of the research was to determine the key factors determining the level of credit risk of individual clients (clients in the form of natural persons, excluding companies) on the example of Polish cooperative banks according to the following features: transaction characteristics, socio-demographic characteristics of the customer, the cus...

Prediction insolvency is one of the most important issues during creditworthiness assessment, especially in the turmoil environment. That is why the problem of insolvency and bankruptcy prediction has been the subject of numerous studies focused on its causes, consequences, and prediction. The main goal of the study was to develop a prediction mode...

Subject and purpose of work: The subject of this research was the financial efficiency of large food industry enterprises in Poland, and its aim was to determine the strength and direction of the impact of key macroeconomic factors on the level of financial efficiency of those enterprises. Materials and methods: Data from the Central Statistical Of...

The paper presents problems related to the costs incurred for environmental protection in Polish dairy cooperatives. It was found, inter alia, that the costs of environmental protection in this industry sector are high and are rising rapidly. The costs of sewage disposal and treatment are of key importance as they represent the largest share in the...

This research concentrated on the socio-financial qualities of Poland’s co-op banking. The study’s results enabled answering the question of whether the cooperative banks (co-op banks) are exclusively focused on maximum financial effectiveness or faithful to the idea of cooperation, which basically means supporting its membership and community deve...

The research was aimed at showing the relationship between the gender of the CEO and the efficiency of the Polish cooperative banks. The research covered 354 banks operating in Poland in 2013-2015. Based on the conducted research, it has been shown that, for the surveyed Polish cooperative banks, women served as CEOs in significantly smaller banks...

The aim of the article was to identify the key factors influencing the increase in the risk of bankruptcy of companies from wholesale food industry in Poland. In addition, the research aimed to identifying the most effective method of forecasting the risk of bankruptcy of enterprises in the examined industry in the context of risk management in ban...

The aim of this study was to determine the evolution of the basic NBP interest rates and their impact on the change in the volume of loans to the non- -financial corporations granted in Poland in the years 2008–2015. The analysis shows formation of the relationship between selected NBP interest rates, the volume of loans to non-financial corporatio...

This study endeavours to determine Poland’s cooperative banking sector’s effectiveness based on the board of directors’ president’s gender. The examination indicated that in the case of Polish co-op banks, women fulfilled the function of bank president in smaller banks than did men. The volume of clients, members, general assets and equity in banks...

Przeprowadzone badania dotyczyły określenia znaczenia narzędzi wykorzystywanych przez banki spółdzielcze w ramach koncepcji społecznie odpowiedzialnego biznesu do kreowania własnego wizerunku na rynku lokalnym. Badania ankietowe przeprowadzono w pierwszej połowie 2016 roku na grupie 600 klientów banków spółdzielczych. Przeprowadzone badania wykazał...

W opracowaniu dokonano określenia czynników warunkujących poziom rentowności funduszy własnych banków spółdzielczych w zależności od zewnętrznej sytuacji gospodarczej. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika, że kryzys finansowy w latach 2008–2009 wpłynął w istotny sposób na zarządzanie działalnością polskich banków spółdzielczych, które w okresie kryzysu...

Quality of service is an underestimated asset in this dynamic, contemporary economy, and Polish cooperative (co-op) banks should be managed in such a way to endure and gain competitive advantage. Strong competition from various commercial banks has forced co-op banks into a continual struggle to maintain its clientele. Currently, one of the element...

W opracowaniu dokonano określenia wielkości i zakresu działalności społecznej prowadzonej przez banki spółdzielcze w latach 2009–2013. Badaniami objęto 50 banków spółdzielczych funkcjonujących w Polsce. Przeprowadzone badania wykazały, że w okresie badawczym banki spółdzielcze prowadziły dzia- łalność prospołeczną w istotnym dla społeczności lokaln...

The aim of the paper is to propose a discussion about five ways of improving the effectiveness in an enterprise as a result of singular decisions in the light of the rational managing principle as it has been understood so far as well as in a proposed extended version. The results of authors' researches indicate that the rational managing principle...

Today cooperative banks belong to the most significant financial institution in the world. Moreover, they can compete with commercial banks. The own funds of the cooperative bank are important in their activity. The main goal of this paper is to investigate how much the level of the own funds of the Polish cooperative banks influenced their efficie...

The paper raises the importance of identifying future challenges for the cooperative banks of Poland by their management. Recent studies indicate that the managers of cooperative banks are well aware of the need to adapting world trends pertaining to new computer systems which increase bank proficiency as well as client satisfaction. Studies indica...

This article focuses on a study whose thesis was to ascertain whether current bankruptcy forecasting models are effective in relation to companies involved in international commercial road transport. A second issue was addressed - whether a forecasting model designed by the authors, including industry variables, is more effective than the current g...

W badaniach autorzy podjęli próbę określenia kluczowych czynników wpływających na efektywność polskich banków spółdzielczych w latach 2005–2012. Badaniami objęto próbę losowo wybranych 124 banków spółdzielczych, które nieprzerwanie prowadziły swoją działalność w okresie badawczym. W trakcie badań określono, z wykorzystaniem modeli danych panelowych...

The aim of this study was to construct discriminated analysis models providing effective forecasting of bankruptcy risk for the companies from the following sectors: wholesale food, drink and tobacco, construction of buildings and road freight transport. The study of the applicability of existing models used to evaluate the risk of bankruptcy of en...

W artykule dokonano oceny zależności między dynamiką obliga kredytowego a efektywnością banków spółdzielczych. Badania przeprowadzono na grupie 150 banków spółdzielczych. Z przeprowadzonych analiz wynika, że banki spółdzielcze charakteryzujące się najwyższym poziomem dynamiki obliga kredytowego osiągały najwyższy poziom efektywności, wyrażonej jako...

The article presents the new model of bankruptcy prediction of Polish companies from sector of road freight transport. The study showed that in the process of assessment of the condition of the analyzed sector are two variables: the share of operating assets in the sum of total assets and the relation between total liabilities to equity.

The aim of the study was to identify the key factors determining the level of net profit of polish cooperative banks in the period 2005–2010. Studies have shown that the key factors influencing the net profit realized by cooperative banks were variables defining the basic funds, amount of employees and the amount of loans granted.

In the paper was verified the effectiveness of the five chosen foreign models and twenty six polish models for bankruptcy prediction of companies from the sector of wholesale food, drink and tobacco. Most of analyzed models can’t be able to recognize symptoms of insolvency.

The article presents the basic issues of investment strategies and principles of their construction. In addition, Authors indicated signifi cant differences in the variability of wheat futures. Also Authors presented an investment strategy that is based on identifi ed relations and Fibonacci ratios. Results of using built investment strategy are ch...

The article presents the example of using relations between the price of wheat flour sold by the milling companies and the price of wheat futures listed on the FOREX market to protect the companies from bakery sector against adverse price movements of raw material – wheat flour. The paper aims to present a method which can help to reduce risk of ch...

In the paper were verified usability present bankruptcy predictor models for banking prediction shipping enterprises insolvency in present economical conditions. Authors proves that present enterprises insolvency prediction models have decreased their forecast propriety. Therefore authors built discriminate analysis model for shipping enterprises w...