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Tomasz Mickiewicz

Aston University, UK

For us as academics, it is important to be able to present the key lessons from our research, in a way that does not distort the content yet makes these lessons easier to understand for non-specialists. IZA World of Labor is uncompromising in preserving quality while clarifying the message. This is why it is very rewarding to work with the IZA World of Labor team on the task at hand

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Author

Current position

50th Anniversary Professor of Economics, Aston University, UK

Research interest

Economics of entrepreneurship, comparative economics, regional economics

Website

https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/tomasz-mickiewicz

Past positions

Professor of Comparative Economics, University College London, UK; Research Associate, University of California at Davis, USA

Qualifications

Habilitation in economic theory, UMCS 2008

Selected publications

  • "Creativity and security as a cultural recipe for entrepreneurship." Journal of Institutional Economics 18:1 (2022): 119–137 (with A. Kaasa).

  • "Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment." Small Business Economics (2021) 1–24 (with F. Qin and S. Estrin).

  • "Authoritarian populism in comparative perspective." In: Douarin, E., and O. Havrylyshyn (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

  • "It takes two to tango: Complementarity of bonding and bridging trust in alleviating corruption in cities." Regional Studies 54:6 (2020): 851–862 (with J. Korosteleva and P. Stępień-Baig).

  • "State capitalism with populist characteristics. Poland and Hungary." In: The Oxford Handbook on State Capitalism and the Firm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 (with M. Bałtowski and P. Kozarzewski).

article(s)

  • Is the post-communist transition over?

    Support for economic liberalization reforms is essential, but it grows stronger only where societies experience the effects of reversing these reforms

    Elodie DouarinTomasz Mickiewicz, June 2022
    An extensive program of economic liberalization reforms, even when it generates positive outcomes, does not automatically generate support for further reforms. Societies respond with strong support only after experiencing the effects of reversing these reforms (i.e. corruption, inequality of opportunity). This point is illustrated through the example of the post-communist transformation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia—arguably a context where the end point of reforms was never clearly defined, and even successful reforms are now associated with a degree of reform suspicion.
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