Members of the Department participate in the "Economics of Compliance with Constitutions" workshop

On September 8-11, 2022, an international scientific workshop was held in Gdańsk within the framework of the Polish-German research project "Economics of compliance with constitutions", led by Prof. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, financed by the National Science Center (NCN) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Beethoven project). Prof. Jan Falkowski, Dr. Jacek Lewkowicz and Dr. Anna Lewczuk from the Department of Political Economy of the Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, also attended the workshop.

Presentations and discussions during the workshop among international specialists in the field of constitutional economics, political economy, public choice theory, institutional economics and economic analysis of law concerned the latest research conducted using advanced econometric techniques and the Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database created as part of the project, as well as using the latest machine learning tools and experimental techniques.

The scientific enthusiasm accompanying the discussions translated into the decision to continue cooperation between researchers from the Department of Political Economy and the University of Hamburg as part of further research projects after 2022.