Ing. Roman Blažek, PhD.

Courses taught:

Education and academic development:
PhD. – Internal doctoral studies, University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, field of study 6213 Economics and Management, dissertation title: A Comprehensive Model of Creative Accounting in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic, 2023.
Ing. – University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, field of study: 3.3.16 Business Economics and Management, master's thesis title: Creative Accounting as a Tool of Tax Optimization, 2020.

Research focus:
In his research, Ing. Roman Blažek, PhD., focuses on diagnosing the financial health of companies and detecting distortions in corporate financial reporting. His research centres on creative accounting and earnings management, as well as financial distress prediction and bankruptcy models. His research scope also covers transfer pricing as a tool for measuring the performance of national and multinational companies, and the analysis of the determinants of corporate indebtedness, liquidity, and solvency and their development during periods of economic crisis. He completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, in the field of Business Economics and Management. He has been systematically engaged in research since 2020, when, already during his doctoral studies, he actively participated in several projects. He was a member of the research teams of the projects VEGA 1/0121/20 (Research on Transfer Pricing Systems as a Tool for Measuring the Performance of National and Multinational Companies) and VEGA 1/0677/22 (Quo Vadis, Bankruptcy Models?), as well as other faculty research initiatives. In his research, he places emphasis on working with real economic data – from collection and processing to evaluation using quantitative methods and econometric models. He regularly presents his results at international scientific conferences and publishes in indexed and impacted journals, with his outputs published, among others, in Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Oeconomia Copernicana, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Mathematics, Journal of Competitiveness, and Stats. He is a co-author of 35 scientific papers recorded in the CREPČ database, of which 18 of his outputs are registered in the Web of Science database (Core Collection) and 18 in Scopus. Selected outputs have received the Web of Science “Highly Cited Paper” designation. In addition to his own publication activity, he serves as a guest editor of special issues for MDPI journals, specifically the issue Mathematical Models and Data-Driven Algorithms for Solving Economic Problems in the journal Mathematics, and the issue Resilience and Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Systems in the journal Systems. He is also actively engaged in peer review for international indexed journals, having completed more than 50 verified reviews recorded in Web of Science. He currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, where, alongside his research activity, he supervises students' final theses. He continues to develop his research line within the projects VEGA 1/0494/24 (Metamorphoses and Causalities of Indebtedness, Liquidity, and Solvency of Companies in the Context of the Global Environment) and 1/KE/2023 (Use of Quantitative Methods to Assess the Impact of Recent Crises on the Financial Performance of Business Entities in the V4). He is actively involved in organizing faculty events, where he communicates with prospective students and popularizes the results of scientific research.

During his work at the Department of Economics, he teaches seminars and exercises in the following courses: quantitative and qualitative research, business decision-making, financial accounting, financial-economic analysis of a company, final thesis, financial management, business and asset valuation.

Most significant pedagogical outputs:

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Most significant scientific publications:

Blazek, R., & Duricova, L. (2025). Beyond expectations: anomalies in financial statements and their application in modelling. Stats, 8(3), 63. (2024: Q4 – AIS, Q3 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 80%). https://doi.org/10.3390/stats8030063

Durana, P., Kovalova, E., Blazek, R., & Bicanovska, K. (2025). Business efficiency: Insights from Visegrad four before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Economies, 13(2), 26. (2024: Q3 – AIS, Q2 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 30%). https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13020026

Durana, P., Poliak, M., Kovalova, E., & Blazek, R. (2025). Prediction models reloaded: Advanced insights for SMEs in the Bucharest Nine countries. Oeconomia Copernicana, 16(2), 689–760. (Q2 – AIS, Q1 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 25%). https://doi.org/10.24136/oc.3764

Durana, P., Blazek, R., & Kovalova, E. (2024). Sherlock Holmes between homogeneity tests: Detection power based on profitability ratios in the V4 region. Stats, 7(4), 1333–1353. (Q4 – AIS, Q3 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 33.33%). https://doi.org/10.3390/stats7040077

Blazek, R., Durana, P., & Michulek, J. (2023). Renaissance of creative accounting due to the pandemic: New patterns explored by correspondence analysis. Stats, 6(1), 411–430. (Q4 – AIS, Q3 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 60%). https://doi.org/10.3390/stats6010025

Final thesis topics:

Scientometric data:

Projects:

NFP401101C526, Innovative Personalized Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant for Interactive Education, Effective Teaching, and Comprehensive Learning Support
1/KE/2023, BExLab – Interactive Learning through Behavioural Experiments in Economics and Finance – co-investigator
VEGA 1/0001/26, Research on Indicators and Design of Methods Supporting the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Elimination of Pathological Workplace Relationships in the Context of Their Impact on Company and Individual Performance – co-investigator
VEGA 1/0494/24, Metamorphoses and Causalities of Indebtedness, Liquidity, and Solvency of Companies in the Context of the Global Environment – co-investigator
VEGA 1/0677/22, Quo Vadis, Bankruptcy Models? A Prospective-Longitudinal Cohort Study with an Emphasis on Changes Determined by COVID-19 – co-investigator
VEGA 1/0121/20, Research on Transfer Pricing Systems as a Tool for Measuring the Performance of National and Multinational Companies in the Context of Earnings Management in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic and V4 Countries – co-investigator

Additional information:

Member of the editorial board of Economics & Law
Member of the editorial board of the journal Economics and Management magazines
Guest editor of Mathematical Models and Data-Driven Algorithms for Solving Economic Problems
Guest editor of Resilience and Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Systems
Awarded by the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors for the work: Creative Accounting as a Tool of Tax Optimization (2020)
Awarded by the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors for the work: A Comprehensive Model of Creative Accounting in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic (2023)
Highly Cited Paper – the scientific article “Metamorphoses of earnings in the transport sector of the V4 region” by Durana, P., Valaskova, K., Blazek, R., & Palo, J. – recognized by the Web of Science database