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(Belief in) life after death impacts the utility of life before it - a difference in preferences or an artefact?
(2016-04)In most of the religions the preservation of own, God-given, life is obligatory. The time-trade-off method (TTO) forces to voluntarily forego life years. We verify if this is a problem for the religious and how it impacts ... -
Categorisation-enhanced mental-accounting consumer behaviour: demand enhancement and endogenous cycles in an overlapping-generations income-age distribution model
(2023-06)Weaknesses of intertemporal optimisation approaches to consumption modelling include excess sensitivity of an individual's expenditure to interest rate changes and the inability to account for the documented behavioural ... -
Central bank credibility, long-term yields and the effects of monetary integration
(2021-01)Forming a monetary union implies equalization of short-term interest rates across the member states as monetary policy is delegated to a common central bank, but also leads to integration of risk-free bond markets. In this ... -
Choosing from multiple alternatives in cost-effectiveness analysis with fuzzy willingness-to-pay/accept and uncertainty
(2016-04)Cost-effectiveness analysis of medical technologies requires valuing health, an uneasy task, as confirmed by variability of published estimates. Treating the willingness-to-pay/accept (WTP/WTA) as fuzzy seems an intuitive ... -
Common typology of virtual communities and multi-sided platforms. Analysis of business models using qualitative system dynamics
(2022-06)This paper presents a common typology of virtual communities and multi-sided platforms. The analyzed entities comprise 69 of Poland's most prominent websites, representing one of two business models. Based on three dimensions: ... -
Consumption modelling using categorisation-enhanced mental accounting
(2023-07)Credibly representing category-of-goods mental accounting in an intertemporal optimisation framework is notoriously difficult, as this modelling approach imposes interrelations between the demand for different categories ... -
Crisis, contagion and international policy spillovers under foreign ownership of banks
(2016-03)This paper checks how international spillovers of shocks and policies are modified when banks are foreign owned. To this end we build a two-country macroeconomic model with banking sectors that are owned by residents of ... -
Currency demandand MIMIC models : towards a structured hybrid model-based estimation of the shadow economy size
(2017-09)Model-based econometric techniques of the shadow economy estimation have been increasingly popular, but a systematic approach to getting the best of their complementarities has so far been missing. We review the dominant ... -
Demographics and the natural interest rate in the euro area
(2020-07)We investigate the impact of demographics on the natural rate of interest (NRI) in the euro area, with a particular focus on the role played by economic openness, migrations and pension system design. To this end, we ... -
The Digital Era, Viewed From a Perspective of Millennia of Economic Growth
(2018-04)I propose a synthetic theory of economic growth and technological progress over the entire human history. Based on this theory as well as on the analogies with three previous eras (the hunter-gatherer era, the agricultural ... -
Does a bank levy increase frictions on the interbank market?
(2018-03)The crisis has shown that a drop in liquidity, as well as the shortened maturity of interbank transactions, has caused many problems for banks. We analyze how the introduction of a bank levy on bank assets ... -
Does foreign sector help forecast domestic variables in DSGE models?
(2016-12)This paper evaluates the forecasting performance of several small open economy DSGE models relative to a closed economy benchmark using a long span of data for Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. We find that opening ... -
Does inflation matter? The influence of perceived price changes on well-being
(2023-03)I confirm the foregoing state of the art for inflation and well-being correlation while filling the gap in the literature and estimating the effects of individuals’ inflation perception on well-being. I also discover the ... -
The Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks: Evidence from a Bayesian SVAR Model With Uncertain Identifying Assumptions
(2024-11)We explore the effects of fiscal policy shocks on aggregate output and inflation. We use the novel Bayesian econometric methodology of Baumeister and Hamilton applied to the fiscal structural vector autoregressive model ... -
Efficiency in rewarding academic journal publications. The case of Poland
(2021-02)We consider the efficiency of a mechanism for incentivising publication in academic journals where a research supervisory body awards points for papers that appear in quality publications. Building on the principal-agent ... -
Efficiency in spatially disaggregated labour market matching
(2016-05)We analyse the efficiency in a labour market matching process. We contribute to the literature by comparing different spatial aggregation levels - NUTS-1 to NUTS-4 and analysing monthly and annual perspectives. We use data ... -
Endogenous Labor Share Cycles: Theory and Evidence
(2016-09)Based on long US time series we document a range of empirical properties of the labor's share of GDP. We identify its substantial medium-to-long run, pro-cylical swings and show that most of its variance lies beyond ... -
Equilibrium foreign currency mortgages
(2016-12)This paper proposes a novel explanation for why foreign currency denominated loans to households have become so popular in some emerging economies. Our argument is based on what we call the debt limit channel, which arises ... -
Estimating the membership function of the fuzzy willingness-to-pay/accept for health via Bayesian modelling
(2016-05)Determining how to trade off individual criteria is often not obvious, especially when attributes of very different nature are juxtaposed, e.g. health and money. The difficulty stems both from the lack of adequate market ... -
The European energy crisis and the US natural gas market dynamics. A structural VAR investigation
(2024-03)The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered severe disruptions in the European energy markets and caused significant shifts in global natural gas flows. In this paper we investigate to what extent this European shock has ...
