Information on the thesis

A  dissertation  for  the  Scholarly  Degree  of  Candidate  of  Economic  Sciences,
Specialty 08.00.08 – Money, Finances and Credit. – Ivan Franko National University of
Lviv. – Lviv, 2015.
The  dissertation  reveals  the  essence  and  principles  of  formations  the  socially-
oriented banking system in Ukraine and methodological approaches to its analysis. The
conditions, functions and stages of development of the socially-oriented banking system
are  analyzed.  The  dissertation  analyses the  main  approaches to the interpretation of the
concepts of corporate social responsibility and social banking, proposes the definitions of
social orientations of banking system and social restructuring of banking system, as well
as the basic methods for realization of the social function of the banks and determines the
factors  that  influence  the  social  efficiency  of  the  banking  system.  The  dissertation
emphasis  the  conditions  and  reasons  for  formations  of  modern  social-oriented  banking
system,  it  proves  the  correlation  and  influence  of  the  structural  characteristics  of  the
financial system to the level of economic inequality. The current state and phases of the
corporate  social  responsibility  management  in  the  national  banking  system,  as  well  as
information and marketing tools for improvement the reputation and social responsibility
of the bank has been investigated in this dissertation. The methodological approaches for
the rating assessment of the banks’ social impact and qualitative, as well as quantitative
criteria of the social impact have been developed. Based on the national and international
experiences’ analysis of tax incentives for formation socially-oriented banking system, the
recommendations are given for improvement of the taxation mechanism and institutional
regulation of the banking system; improvement of the corporate and state governance of
the  social  and  economic  risks  of  the  banking  system  in  Ukraine.  The  dissertation
emphasizes  the  role  and  mechanisms  of  public-private  investment  partnerships  and
institutional  mechanism  of  international  initiative  for  financing  of  sustainable
development. The concept of International Sustainability Investment Fund is developed in
order to improve responsibility of financial system, support target financing and growth of
socially-oriented  banks.  The  dissertation research  elaborates  proposals  for  delegation  of
the social responsibilities and public services from the government to the private banks by
implementation of the value-added business models, decrease of the economic inequality
by the mechanisms of tax initiatives, target financing of the social and real sectors of the
economy, and prevention of the financial market speculative activities through normative
regulation and contractile approach to state regulations of the financial system.
Key  terms::  socially-oriented  banking  system,  socially-oriented  banks,  tax
incentives,  tax  on  financial  transactions,  corporate  social  responsibility,  social  impact
ranking, reputation, ethics, social investments and social criteria.