We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …

In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this …, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland …

the effectiveness of such policies using changes in value-added tax (VAT) and household survey data for Poland. We find …

pushing a subset of European countries into hyperinflation shortly after the end of the war. Germany, Austria, Poland, and …

strategies may sometimes be the best. This paper compares the regulation of financial markets in Poland and the Czech Republic in … the 1990s, when the judicial systems remained underdeveloped in both countries. In Poland, strict enforcement of the …

Poland so far. We then develop a model and use it to think about the determinants of the speed of transition and the level of … unemployment. Finally, we return to the role of policy and the future in Poland, as well as the causes of cross-Central European …

planned economy (CPE).The data are from Poland for the period 1955-1980, but the analysis is more general and will be applied … a unique new data set of time series for plans for the major macroeconomic variables in Poland and other CPEs …

This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The … liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with …