"I will come back to Poland - the real question is not "if", but "when".
WISER may accelerate it by decades!"
Education
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Ph.D. in
Economics (expected July 2003)
- Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, M.A. in
Quantitative Methods (1997)
Research and Teaching Interests
Applied Game Theory, Auction Theory, Microeconomics
Recent Papers
- "Reputation and Collusion in Repeated 2nd Price Auctions",
Manuscript, Northwestern Univ., 2002
- "Political Sustainability of Funded Pension Systems", Manuscript,
Northwestern University, 2000·
- "Reputation in Multi-unit Ascending Auctions", Manuscript,
Northwestern University, 2002·
- "Underpricing and Rationing as an Anti-collusion Device",
Manuscript, Northwestern University, 2001
I obtained masters degree in Quantitative
Methods from Warsaw School of Economics in 1997. During my final year
there I was a research assistant in the team preparing groundbreaking
pension reform introduced in Poland in 1999. My Master's thesis was
about the long-run effects of the pension reforms. While still at the
Warsaw School of Economics I took part in a series of Summer Schools of
Economics in Olsztyn and I went to Oxford for a three-month scholarship
- both initiatives coordinated and co-founded by Batory Foundation. In
1997 I started PhD studies at Northwestern University. My initial
interests in pension systems resulted in a major in Macroeconomics and a
paper "Political Sustainability of Funded Pension Systems". My second
major and current focus is Game Theory and Auction Theory. My
dissertation thesis and job market paper, "Reputation and Collusion in
Repeated Second Price Auctions", argues that the repeated use of second
price auctions may lead to very non-robust outcomes and may explain the
peculiar price pattern during the European spectrum auctions for the
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