Publications (see my CV for a complete list)


2020 Michal Brzezinski, Katarzyna Sałach, Marcin Wroński (2020), "Wealth inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: evidence from joined household survey and rich lists’ data", forthcoming in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change.
2019 Iga Magda, Michal Brzezinski, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak, Irena E. Kotowska, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub, Joanna Tyrowicz (2019), “„Rodzina 500+” – ocena programu i propozycje zmian, raport.
Brzezinski Michal (2019), “The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Europe, forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.
Brzezinski Michal (2019), “Top incomes and subjective well-being", forthcoming in Journal of Economic Psychology.
Brzezinski Michal (2019), “What accounts for the rise of low self-rated health during the recent economic crisis in Europe?, International Journal for Equity in Health.
2018 Brzezinski Michal (2018), “Diagnosing unhappiness dynamics: Evidence from Poland and Russia, in Journal of Happiness Studies.
Brzezinski Michal (2018), “Income inequality and the Great Recession in Central and Eastern Europe”, Economic Systems, vol. 42(2), pp. 219-247.
2017 Brzezinski Michal (2017), “The impact of the Family 500+ program on household incomes, poverty and inequality in Poland”, Polityka Społeczna vol. 13(1), pp. 16–25..
2016 Brzezinski Michal (2016), “Robust estimation of the Pareto tail index: A Monte Carlo Analysis”, Empirical Economics vol. 51(1), pp. 1–30.
2015 Brzezinski Michal (2015), “Accounting for trends in health poverty: A decomposition analysis for Britain, 1991-2008”, The European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 16(2), pp. 153-159.
Brzezinski Michal (2015), “Relative Risk Aversion and Power-Law Distribution of Macroeconomic Disasters”, The Journal of Applied Econometrics (replication section), vol. 30(1), pp. 170-175.
Brzezinski Michal (2015), “Power laws in citation distributions: evidence from Scopus”, Scientometrics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1524-z.
Brzezinski Michal (2015), “Jaki kapitalizm? Jakie państwo? Schumpeterowska teoria wzrostu gospodarczego a koncepcja inteligentnego państwa (smart state)”, w: Ł. Hardt, D. Milczarek-Andrzejewska (ed.), Ekonomia jest pi˛ekna? Ksi˛ega dedykowana Profesorowi Jerzemu Wilkinowi, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, pp. 153–168. .
2014 Brzezinski Michal (2014), Wealth Distributions and Power Laws: Evidence from 'Rich Lists', Physica A, vol. 406, pp. 155-162.
Brzezinski Michal (2014), “Empirical modeling of the impact factor distribution”, Journal of Informetrics, vol. 8(2), pp. 362-368.
Brzezinski Michal (2014), “Statistical inference for richness measures”, Applied Economics, vol. 46(14), pp. 1599-1608.
Letki Natalia, Brzezinski Michal, Jancewicz Barbara (2014), “The rise of inequalities in Poland and their impacts: When politicians don’t care but citizens do”, forthcoming in Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst (eds.), Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries’ Experiences, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 488-513.
2013 Brzezinski Michal (2013), “Parametric Modelling of Income Distribution in Central and Eastern Europe”, Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, Vol. 5(3), pp. 207-230.
Brzezinski Michal (2013), “Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for top income shares”, Economics Letters, Vol. 120(1), pp. 10-13.
Brzezinski Michal (2013), “Top income shares and crime”, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 20(4), pp. 309-315.
2012 Brzezinski Michal (2012), “The Chen-Shapiro test for normality”, The Stata Journal, Vol. 12(3), pp. 368-374
Brzezinski Michal (2012), “Accounting for recent trends in absolute poverty in Poland: A decomposition analysis”, Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 24(4), pp. 465-475.
Brzezinski Michal, Maria Halber (2012), “Testing the Perturbation Sensitivity of Abortion-Crime Regressions”, Contemporary Economics, Vol. 6(2), pp. 58-63.
2011 Brzezinski Michal (2011), "Pro-poor growth in Poland: Contrasting Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives", in: Anna Jaeschke, Wieslawa Starzynska (eds.), Statistical methods in regional and social analyses under integration and globalization, Lodz, Statistical Office in Lodz, pp. 175-190.
Brzezinski Michal (2011), “Statistical inference on income polarization in Poland”, Przeglad statystyczny/Statistical review, Vol. 58(1–2), pp. 102-113.
Brzezinski Michal (2011), "Marshall in Poland", in Raffaelli T., Becattini G., Dardi M. and Caldari K.(eds.), The Impact Of Alfred Marshall's Ideas: The Global Diffusion of his Work, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp. 110-115.
2010 Brzezinski Michal (2010), "Income affluence in Poland", Social Indicators Research, Vol. 99(2), pp. 285-299.
Brzezinski Michal, Krzysztof Kostro (2010), "Income and consumption inequality in Poland, 1998-2008", Bank i Kredyt, Vol. 41(4), pp. 45-72.
(In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2010), "Ubóstwo relatywne w Polsce w latach 1998-2008", Polityka społeczna, No. 5-6, pp. 12-17.
2009 Brzezinski Michal, Dzielinski Michal (2009), "Is endogenous growth theory degenerating? Another look at Lakatosian appraisal of growth theories", Journal of Economic Methodology , Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 243-263.
2008 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal, Hockuba Zbigniew, Gorynia Marian (2008), Ekonomia a inne nauki spoleczne na poczatku XXI w. Miedzy imperializmem a kooperacja, Ekonomista, No. 2., pp. 201-232.
2007 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2007), "Czy istnieje polska ekonomia stosowana? Przypadek CASE", in J. Kochanowicz, S. Mendes, M. Marody (eds.), Kulturowe aspekty transformacji ekonomicznej, Warszawa, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, pp. 251-275.
2006 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal, Krzysztof Kostro (2006), "Jakie korzysci odnosi ekonomia z badan nad wlasna historia?", Ekonomista, No. 6., pp. 1-25.
(In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2006), "Recenzja ksiazki: P. Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science", Studia Ekonomiczne, No. 4., pp. 345-350.
2005 (In Polish) Hockuba Zbigniew, Brzezinski Michal (2005), "Oskara Langego syntezy teorii ekonomicznych", in Z. Sadowski (ed.), Oskar Lange a współczesnosc, Warszawa, Polskie Towarzystwo Ekonomiczne, pp. 289-312.
(In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2005), "Recenzja ksiazki: J. Wilkin (red.), Teoria wyboru publicznego", Studia Ekonomiczne, No. 1-2., pp. 149-151.
2004 Brzezinski Michal (2004), "Current trends in the historiography of economics", Politicka ekonomie, No. 4, pp. 543-559.
(In Polish) Hockuba Zbigniew, Brzezinski Michal (2004), "Ekonomia polityczna Oskara Langego", in J. Wilkin (ed.), Czym jest ekonomia polityczna dzisiaj?, Warszawa, Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytet Warszawski, pp. 33-60.
2003 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2003), "Recenzja ksiazki: E. Roy Weintraub, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science", Studia Ekonomiczne , No. 1-2., pp. 149-151.
2002 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2002), "Wplyw nierównosci dochodowej na dobrobyt spoleczny w Polsce w latach 1989-1997", Gospodarka Narodowa, No. 9., pp. 41-60.
2001 (In Polish) Brzezinski Michal (2001), "Koncepcja sprawiedliwosci Johna Rawlsa a teoria ekonomii", in T. Zylicz (ed.), Dziesiec lat transformacji polskiej gospodarki, Warszawa, Nowy Dziennik, pp. 25-43.

Current Work

  • Katarzyna Sałach, Michal Brzezinski (2020), Political connections and the super-rich in Poland, WNE Working Paper No. 17/2020.
  • Michal Brzezinski, Katarzyna Sałach (2020), Why wealth inequality differs between post-socialist countries?, WNE Working Paper No. 14/2020.
  • Michal Brzezinski, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub (2019), Reevaluating distributional consequences of the transition to market economy in Poland: new results from combined household survey and tax return data, WNE Working Paper No. 18/2019 (303).
  • Michal Brzezinski, Katarzyna Salach, Marcin Wronski (2019), Wealth inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: evidence from joined household survey and rich lists’ data, WNE Working Paper No. No. 9/2019 (294).
  • Michal Brzezinski, Katarzyna Sałach (2019), Nierówności dochodowe i majątkowe w Polsce: nowe wyniki wykorzystujące dane pozaankietowe, referat zaprezentowany na X Kongresie Ekonomistów Polskich, 28-29.11.2019.
  • Michal Brzezinski (2017), Childhood circumstances, personality traits and adult-life economic outcomes in developing countries: Evidence from STEP , IBS Working Paper 05/2017.
  • Michal Brzezinski, Mateusz Najsztub (2017), Wpływ programu „Rodzina 500+” na dochody gospodarstw domowych, ubóstwo i nierówność, artykuł zamówiony przez Politykę Społeczną.
  • Michal Brzezinski (2017), Nierówności dochodowe i majątkowe w Europie – fakty, przyczyny, konsekwencje , artykuł na konferencję Komitetu Prognoz PAN Polska 2000 Plus.
  • Michal Brzezinski (2017), Czy "dobra zmiana" zredukuje nierówności? O egalitaryzmie w polityce i ideologii PiS, artykuł do książki Ekonomia polityczna "dobrej zmiany".
  • Michal Brzezinski, Iga Magda (2016), Inequality of opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe: accounting for changes over time, IBS working paper 5/2016.
  • Michal Brzezinski (2015), Income Dynamics in Poland during the Great Recession and Recovery: The Role of Tax and Benefit System , nieopublikowane.
  • Michal Brzezinski (2013), Nierównosci w Polsce na tle krajów Unii Europejskiej, paper presented at the IX Congress of Polish Economists, Warsaw, 28-29 November, 2013.
  • Unpublished papers

  • Michal Brzezinski (2015), Inequality of opportunity in Europe before and after Great Recession, Faculty of Economic Sciences University of Warsaw Working Paper No. 2/2015 (150).
  • Michal Brzezinski, Income polarization and economic growth, National Bank of Poland Working Paper no. 147, 2013.
  • Michal Brzezinski, Barbara Jancewicz, Natalia Letki, Country report for Poland, GINI: Growing Inequalities Project, December 2012.
  • Michal Brzezinski, Has recent economic growth in Poland been pro-poor? Evidence from 1998-2008, August 2011.