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.