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2012-02-03

Irena Grosfeld

Member of the CASE Advisory Council

Expertise:
Institutions and economic performance, corporate governance, private sector development

Background:
Current positions:
Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris School of Economics, Paris

Previous CASE projects:
• Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia: Secondary Privatisation: The Evolution of Ownership Structures of Privatised Enterprises, ACE-PHARE Programme, 1999 - 2000
• Albania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland: Barriers to Entry and Growth of Private Companies in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Albania, and Lithuania, ACE-PHARE Programme, (1996-1998)
• EU-13: Development of Institutions, Governance, Labour Markets, Welfare Systems and the Civil Society in Candidate Countries
• Poland: Privatization, Systemic Reforms and the Evolution of the Enterprise Sector in Poland: An Assessment of Fifteen Years' Experience (2004-2005)

Education:
Ph.D. Economics () Université Paris-I Sorbonne,
M.A. Economics () Warsaw University

Languages:
English (Fluent), French (Fluent), Polish (Fluent)

Selected International Publications:
Competition and Corporate Governance: Substitutes or Complements ? Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange", (with T. Tressel), forthcoming in Economics of Transition, 2002.

"Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market" (with C. Senik-Leygonie, T. Verdier, S. Kolenikov and E.Paltseva), Journal of Comparative Economics, 29 (1), 2001.

"Investment and finance in de novo private firms: empirical results from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland ", (with A. Bratkowski and J. Rostowski), Economics of Transition, 8 (1), 2000.

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Selected CASE publications:

		The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992-2005
		Zmiany w polskich przedsiębiorstwach. Własność, restrukturyzacja, efektywność
		The Evolution of Ownership Structure in Firms Privatized through Wholesale Schemes in the Czech Republic and Poland
		Investment and Finance in the non Private Firms: Empirical Results from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
		Comparing Financial Systems. Problems of Information and Control in Economies in Transition

Selected International Publications:

		Changes in ownership concentration in mass privatised firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
		Secondary Privatisation in Transition Economies. The Evolution of Enterprises Ownership in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia
		Competition and Corporate Governance: Substitutes or Complements ? Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange
		Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market
		Investment and Finance in De Novo Private Firms: Empirical Results from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
		Insiders and wage setting in transition : evidence from a panel of large Polish firms, 1988-1994


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