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What drives export performance of firms in Eastern and Western Poland?
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2017-01)
We use a unique firm-level survey dataset that draws from the EFIGE (European Firms In Global Economy) questionnaire, to unveil differences in factors driving export performance in structurally most diverse areas of Poland. ...
Patterns of regional inflation persistence in a CEE country. The case of Poland
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology, 2017-02)
This paper investigates patterns of regional inflation persistence in Poland, a representative CEE country. We first argue that the CEE perspective is relevant in the context of this study due to the recent transitions, ...
Sources of regional inflation in Poland
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2016-07)
This paper aims at shedding some light on the sources of regional inflation in Poland. More specifically, it investigates the role of external, national and idiosyncratic shocks. In a two-step procedure, we estimate ...
Demand and Supply Shock Symmetry across Polish Voievodships
(2018-10-08)
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the symmetry of demand and supply shocks affecting Polish voievodships and to assess the risk of asymmetric shocks in the future. The study employs the SVAR-based Blanchard and Quah ...
The Role of Immigrants in the ‘Take-Offs’ of Eastern European ‘Manchesters.’ A Comparative Case Studies of Three Cities: Lodz, Tampere, and Ivanovo
Kowalski, Kamil 
; ; Sokołowicz, Mariusz (2019-12)
; ; Sokołowicz, Mariusz (2019-12)
In this paper, we try to identify the institutional offers for emigrants and evaluate the role of immigrants at the time of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century history of three cities where the dynamic ...
Economics in Times of Crisis. In Search of a New Paradigm
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2014)
The relationship between the development of economics and economic performance is not
reducible to any set of simple rules. Among the historians of economic thought there is even a handful
of those who perceive the ...
Tale of two cities. A comparative study of relationship between education and economic prosperity
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2016-07)
Over the last century, the social function and the role of the universities and other higher education institutions (HEI) changed significantly. What the contemporary students expect to gain due to their university education ...
Fiscal sustainability of the Visegrad Group countries in the aftermath of global economic crisis
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2017-01)
The article investigates the sustainability of fiscal policies of the Visegrad Group
countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) in the years 1996-
2015 using statistical and econometric analysis methods. ...
The foreign currency mortgage loans in the Polish banking sector and its possible macroeconomic and political consequences
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2016-08)
According to the Polish Banking Supervision (KNF) statistics , banking mortgage loans total 22.4% of the overall assets of the Polish banking credit portfolio as of January 2015 data. Around 15% of those loans might have ...
Institutions Without Culture. A Critique of Acemoglu and Robinson's Theory of Economic Development
(Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, 2016-08)
Acemoglu and Robinson’s theory presented in their famous Why Nations Fail, and other papers, should be placed among the institutional theories of economic development. Yet the problem is they strongly differentiate their ...