Resume

Education

2016-2022
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Habilitation, Economics (equivalent of a tenure)

application submitted in October 2022, date of colloquium: June 2023

2014-2016
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

PhD, Economics

Individual Process of Studies dedicated to outstanding students, thesis submitted in June 2016, date of public defence: January 2017, dissertation title: Labour Market Regulations and Their Effectiveness. The Perspective of the Economic Analysis of Law

2016-2022
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration

PhD, Law

thesis submitted in December 2021, date of public defence: October 2022, dissertation title: Legal Liability of Trade Unions in Poland

2012-2014
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

MA, Economics

Grade: excellent (summa cum laude), Individual Process of Studies dedicated to outstanding students, dissertation title: Economic Analysis of Hiring Forms Dedicated to Managerial Positions in Poland

2012-2013
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Postgraduate, Strategic Audit in Public and Private Institutions

Grade: very good dissertation title: Personal Audit Importance for Institutions’ Condition in Agency Theory Perspective

2011-2016
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law & Administration

MA, Law

dissertation title: Strikes in Polish Labor Law

2009-2012
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

BA, Economics

Grade: very good, dissertation title: Transaction Costs Economics in Theory and Practice – Vertical Integraiton of Powerplants and Coal Mines

2006-2009
Stanisław Staszic 14th High School in Warsaw

High School

Matex profile (mathematical, experimental profile of teaching)

Experience

2023-ongoing
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Associate Professor

Chair of Political Economy

2017-2023
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Assistant Professor

Chair of Political Economy

2014-ongoing
Narodowy Bank Polski

Economic Advisor

Economic Analysis and Research Department (formerly: Economic Institute)

2017-ongoing
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences

Director

Center for Chinese Studies

02.2022
ETH Zurich

Visiting Professor

01.2020-06.2020
National University of Singapore

Visiting Senior Fellow

02.2019
George Mason University

Visiting Researcher

05.2018
Sichuan University

Visiting Professor

01.2018
Universitetet i Bergen

Visiting Scholar, Erasmus+

11.2017
Università di Bologna

Visiting Professor

07.2015
University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Researcher

Research Projects

2023 - 2026
Sonata Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Principal Investigator

Populism and economic performance: a quantitative perspective

2023 - 2026
Opus LAP Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Main Investigator

Does Constitution Making Matter? The Economics of Writing Social Contracts

2021 - 2024
Opus Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Main Investigator

Political polarization and parliamentary voting on economic policies: the case of Poland 2005-2019

2018 - 2019
Miniatura Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Principal Investigator

Institutions de jure and de facto from the perspective of transaction economics

2018 - 2021
Beethoven Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Main Investigator

Economics of Compliance with Constitutions

2015 - 2019
Opus Programme, National Science Centre (Poland)

Main Investigator

Formal versus De Facto Rules in Economic Studies of Postsocialist Countries' Constitutions

2013 - 2016
Diamond Grant, Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)

Principal Investigator

Economic analysis of labor law: opinion on valid regulations and effective institutions models construction

Selected Achievements

2023 - 2026
Ministry of Education and Science

Laureate

scholarship for outstanding young scientists

2021 - 2022
Foundation for Polish Science

Laureate

FNP Start programme for outstanding young scientists

2017
Institute of Labour and Social Studies by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy of the Republic of Poland

1st Place Laureate

Contest for the best doctoral thesis in labour issues

2016
Raczkowski Paruch sp.k.

Laureate

Contest for the best master thesis in labor law

2014 - 2022
University of Warsaw

Laureate

Scientific scholarship for the best Ph.D. students

2013 - 2016
Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)

Laureate

“Diamond Grant”, 2nd edition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland programme for outstanding students of Polish schools of education supporting to conduct their own scientific research; project title: “Economic analysis of labor law: opinion on valid regulations and effective institutions models construction”

2012
Entrepreneurship, Finance and Management – XVI Edition

1st Place Laureate

Member of the winning team representing University of Warsaw

2011 - 2012
Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)

Laureate

Scientific scholarship

2010 - 2014
Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Laureate

Scientific scholarship

Teaching Experience

Unsupervised Machine Learning, Text Mining & Social Media Mining, Web Scraping & Social Media Scraping, Law & Economics, Research Seminar, Master's Seminar, Labour Law

Political Economy

Selected Publications

(2024) Pandemic Misery Index: How to Overcome the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic? [with Rafał Woźniak]

Social Indicators Research (forthcoming; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03335-6)

(2024) Political conflict, political polarization, and constitutional compliance[with Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska and Jan Fałkowski]

Constitutional Political Economy (forthcoming; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-024-09434-3)

(2023) The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism and constitutional compliance [with Rafał Woźniak, Anna Lewczuk and Mateusz Marcol]

Democratization (forthcoming; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2258341)

(2023) Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation [with Jan Fałkowski and Przemysław Kurek]

European Journal of Political Economy (102427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102427)

(2022) COVID-19 and Erosion of Democracy [with Michał Woźniak and Michał Wrzesiński]

Economic Modelling (106, 105682; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105682)

(2022) Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland [with Jan Fałkowski]

Journal of Rural Studies (94, 192-203; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.06.002)

(2022) Civil society and compliance with constitutions [with Anna Lewczuk]

Acta Politica (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00240-z)

(2022) In practice or just on paper? Some insights on using alphabetical rule to assign judges to cases [with Jan Fałkowski]

European Journal of Law & Economics (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-022-09733-w)

(2022) The biotechnology sector in a latecomer country: the case of Poland [with Krzysztof Szczygielski and Jan Jakub Michałek]

New Biotechnology (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2022.01.008)

(2021) Are Adjudication Panels Strategically Selected? The Case of Constitutional Court in Poland [with Jan Fałkowski]

International Review of Law and Economics (65, 105950; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105950)

(2021) Post-Socialist "Illiberal Democracies": Do De Jure Constitutional Rights Matter? [with Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska]

Constitutional Political Economy (32, pp. 233-265; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-020-09316-4)

(2021) Foreign Ownership and Within-MNEs GVC Participation as Determinants of Innovation Activities: A CIS-Based Firm-Level Analysis [with Andrzej Cieślik, Jan Jakub Michałek, Krzysztof Szczygielski and Jerzy Mycielski]

Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics (13(2), pp. 189-211; DOI: https://doi.org/10.24425/CEJEME.2021.137361)

(2019) De Jure/De Facto Institutions [with Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska]

in: Marciano A., Ramello G.B. (eds.) (living edition). Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_661-2)

(2018) Efektywność regulacji zbiorowych stosunków pracy w Polsce

Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Warszawa [monograph in Polish]

(2018) What is Law & Economics and How Could It Have Contributed to Preventing the Global Crisis?

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review (6(3), pp. 89-101; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2018.060306)

Editorial Service

Ekonomista

Member of the Editorial Board since 2022, https://ekonomista.pte.pl/en

Membership in Organizations

Polish Association of Law and Economics

Board Member (2014-Current), Audit Committee Member (2013-2014)

Econometric Society

American Economic Association

Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics

Western Economic Association International

World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research

European Association of Law and Economics

Mensa

Diamond Grant Laureates' Association

Polish Children's Fund

Conferences & Workshops

2023

60th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society (PCS) (Seattle), 2023 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS) (Hannover), 17th International Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) (Melbourne), 18th Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) (Warsaw), 32nd Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (Pontresina), 8th World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research Conference (WINIR) (Catania)

2022

Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (SES) (Glasgow), 2022 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASMES) (Miami), 31st Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (Pontresina), 3rd Ariel Conference on the Political Economy of Public Policy (Ariel)

2021

96th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) (online due to COVID-19), Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S Mundo) (online due to COVID-19), 30th Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (Pontresina), 38th Annual Conference of the European Associaation of Law & Economics (EALE) (online due to COVID-19), 8th Polish Law and Economics Conference (PSEAP) (online due to COVID-19)

2020

37th Annual Conference of the European Associaation of Law & Economics (EALE) (online due to COVID-19), 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE) (online due to COVID-19)

2019

6th World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research Conference (WINIR) (Lund); 14th Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) (Warsaw); XXII Zjazd Katedr i Zakładów Prawa Pracy i Ubezpieczeń Społecznych (Warsaw); 7th Polish Law & Economics Conference (Warsaw); Warsaw Economic Seminars (Warsaw)

2018

14th Annual Law and Economics Association Conference (AsLEA) (Singapore); 16th Annual Conference of the German Law and Economics Association (GLEA) (Ljubljana); 17th International Schumpeter Society Conference (ISS) (Seoul); 9th Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (AEDE) (Lleida); 6th Polish Law & Economics Conference (Warsaw); 5th edition of the Summer School of Law & Economics (Warsaw)

2017

13th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE-ISLE) (Rome); Warsaw Economic Seminars (Warsaw); 2nd Annual Congress of the French Association of Law and Economics (AFED) (Aix-en-Provence); Fiscal Sustainability - International Monetary Fund & Joint Vienna Institute (Vienna); 21st Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) (Warsaw); 21st Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Iberian Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) (Lima); Warsaw Economic Seminars (Warsaw); 5th Polish Law & Economics Conference (Warsaw); 10th Seminar for Researchers on European Labour Law and Social Law (Amsterdam); World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research Symposium (WINIR) (Johannesburg)

2016

12th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE-ISLE) (Turin); Economic Awareness and Education - Importance and Measurement (Warsaw); Polish Law & Economics Conference (Warsaw); 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (Bologna); 3rd World Interdisiplinary Network for Institutional Research Conference (WINIR) (Boston); 2016 Econometric Summer School - University of Cambridge (Cambridge); 20th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Iberian Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) (Santiago de Chile); 7th Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (AEDE) (Lisbon); Educational Innovation in Economics and Business (EDiNEB) (Nice); Redefining Economics - Beyond the Neoclassical Approach (Warsaw)

2015

Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis (Tel-Aviv); 4th Polish Law & Economics Conference (Warsaw); 3rd Conference of the Diamond Grant Laureate's Association (Rzeszów); Summer School in Law & Economics (Hamburg); Seminar of the Polish Association of Law & Economics (Warsaw)

2014

31st Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) (Aix-en-Provence); 5th Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (AEDE) (Málaga); 13th Session of the European School on New Institutional Economics (ESNIE) (Cargèse)

2013

Seminar of the Polish Association of Law & Economics (Warsaw)

2011

1st Russian Interdisciplinary Study Group with Industry - Oxford Centere for Collaborative Applied Mathematics & Russian Research Centre (Moscow); 77th European Study Group with industry - Oxford Centere for Collaborative Applied Mathematics & Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)

Additional Training

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org (08.02.2020)

Data Mining Tools and Methods

Polish Academy of Sciences (18.06, 20.06, 25-26.06.2018)

Transition to a modern budget classification and public accounting system as part of a comprehensive budget reform in Poland

World Bank (8-9.11.2016)

Econometrics Summer School

Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (20-22.07.2016)

Key principles of communicating research

Foundation for Polish Science (03.10.2015)

ICA Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering (with Merit)

International Compliance Association (16.05.2014)

Interests

law & economics, institutional economics, political economy, public choice, fiscal policy, monetary policy, labor law

data science, machine learning, strategic management, project management, entrepreneurship, innovation policy, market regulation

travelling (>60 countries visited), sailing (Yacht Skipper, Motorboat Skipper, Long Range Operator [radio], ISSA Poland Inshore Skipper), judo (Polish Championships medalist), running (>10 marathons finished), music (bassoon & piano)

Language Skills

Polish

100%

English

100%

Russian

80%

Spanish

60%

Italian

60%

German

60%

Computer Skills

Stata

100%

R

100%

Python

100%

Microsoft Excel, Word, Project, PowerPoint

100%

LEX

100%

NLOGIT

80%

EViews

80%

Mathematica

80%

MATLAB

80%