
My name is Wojtek and I am a macroeconomist. I publish academic research, teach students, advise policymakers, and contribute to the public debate.
I am a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and a member of Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Development Bank (Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego). I hold a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (2016), where my advisors were prof. Árpád Ábrahám and prof. Evi Pappa.
My research focuses on international economics, monetary and fiscal policies, and banking. My research was published, among others, in the European Economic Review, Journal of Money Banking and Finance, and Oxford Economic Papers. I regularly present in international conferences and invited seminars. I was a visiting researcher in the Bank of England and Senior Associate Teacher at University of Bristol.
I have been teaching Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economics of Banking, International Economics, and Numerical Methods to undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students in Cardiff, Bristol, Florence, Bologna, London, and Warsaw.
I am a founding member and the president of a think tank Dobrobyt na Pokolenia (Prosperity for Generations). I a member of Concilium Civitas, a society gathering Polish social scientists working in foreign universities and I am part of the Economic Ring of the online daily Money.pl.
During the pandemic I served as an Economic Expert in the Covid-19 Advisory Group to the President of the Polish Academy Of Sciences. I advised Polish politicians during 2020 presidential and 2023 general elections. You can view all my 200 (and counting) contributions to the public debate in the Policy section of this website.
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October 2025: New publication! “Empirical Evidence on Selective Sovereign Defaults” in Ekonomista!
August 2025: New publication! “Impact of Covid-19 Vaccinations on UK Stock Market” in The Manchester School!
July 2025: I was presenting “Domestic and Foreign Debt Stability” in the Summer Workshop on Macro & Finance in Warsaw. You can find the slides here.
June 2025: I was presenting “Domestic and Foreign Debt Stability” in the EUI Alumni Conference in Florence. You can find the slides here.
June 2025: I was presenting “Did COVID-19 vaccinations increase GDP growth?” in the Tenth (2025) Cross Country Perspectives in Finance (CCPF) Conference
June 2025: I was presenting “The Impact of China Zero-Covid Policy on Stock Returns” in the Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics workshop in Paris. You can find slides here.
May 2025: A new version of “Impact of COVID-19 Vaccinations on the UK Stock Market” resubmitted after revisions to The Manchester School.
April 2025: A new version of “Sovereign Debt Issuance and Selective Default” resubmitted after revisions to Macroeconomic Dynamics.