Head of Department of Political Economy

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Faculty of Economic Sciences
University of Warsaw
Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
Uniwersytet Warszawski
ul. Długa 44/50
00-241 Warszawa
kmetelska@wne.uw.edu.pl

Office hours / Dyżury: kmetelska@wne.uw.edu.pl

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CV - English version (January 2025)

 

Research interests

Constitutional Economics, Law & Economics, Public Choice, Political Economy

Selected publications

• "Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance", Public Choice, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-025-01364-4 (co-authors: J. Gutmann, S. Voigt)

• "Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions", Journal of Comparative Economics 53(1), 2025, pp. 227-242 (co-author: A. Lewczuk)

• "Political conflict, political polarization and constitutional compliance", Constitutional Political Economy 36, 2025, pp. 351-375 (co-authors: J. Lewkowicz, J. Fałkowski)

• "Debt beliefs and public support for restrictive fiscal rules", Economics Letters 247, 2025, 112104 (co-author: J. Kantorowicz)

• "Leader Characteristics and Constitutional Compliance", European Journal of Political Economy 84, 2024, 102423 (co-authors: J. Gutmann, S. Voigt)

• "The comparative constitutional compliance database", Review of International Organizations 19, 2024, pp. 95–115, co-authors: J. Gutmann, S. Voigt)

• "Posner's <<Economic Analysis of Law>> and Constitutions", History of Economic Ideas XXXI(3), 2023, pp. 223-234. 

• "Constitutional Overperformance - An Empirical Study of De Facto Protection of Rights with No De Jure Equivalents", European Journal of Law and Economics, 53(2), 2022, pp. 289-317 (co-author: A. Lewczuk)

• "Determinants of judges' career choices and productivity", European Journal of Law and Economics 53(1), 2022, pp. 81-107 (co-authors: P. Banasik, M. Godlewska, S. Morawska)

• "Post-socialist 'illiberal democracies': do de jure constitutional rights matter?", Constitutional Political Economy, 32(2), 2021, pp. 233-265 (co-author: J. Lewkowicz)

• "Post-Socialist Constitutions: The De Jure – De Facto Gap, Its Effects and Determinants", Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 29(2), 2021, pp.175-196

• Economic Effects of Post-Socialist Constitutions 25 Years from the Outset of Transition. The Constitutional Political Economy Approach, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenchaften, 2016

• Polish Yearbook of Law & Economics Vol. 1-6 (2011-2015), Warszawa: C.H. Beck, 2011-2016 (co-editors: J. Bełdowski, L. Visscher)

• "Should we pay, and to whom, for biodiversity enhancement in private forests? An empirical study of attitudes towards payments for forest ecosystem services in Poland", Land Use Policy 48, 2015, pp. 261-268 (co-author: A. Bartczak)

• "Constitutions and Economic Reforms in Transition: An Empirical Study", Constitutional Political Economy 1, 2009, pp. 1-41

Edited special issues

• Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 36(3), September 2025 - Special Issue on Constitutional Compliance (Introduction) (co-editor: J. Gutmann)

Datasets

• The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database (CCCD), freely available at Harvard Dataverse

Selected projects

• 2024-2027 Economic and social consequences of violating constitutions - mechanisms and microfoundations (NCN Opus)

• 2023-2026 Does Constitution Making Matter? The Economics of Writing Social Contracts (NCN/DFG Opus LAP/Weave)

• 2023-2026 Perception of and Compliance with Constitutions in Post-Socialist Countries - an Economic Perspective (NCN Opus)

• 2018-2023 Economics of Compliance with Constitutions (NCN/DFG Beethoven)

• 2015-2019 Formal versus De Facto Rules in Economic Studies of Post-Socialist Countries' Constitutions (NCN Opus)

• 2012-2015 Constitutional Rules, Economic Policy, and Economic Outcomes (NCN Opus)

Work in progress

• Fiscal rules violation – an experiment on public perception, co-author: J. Kantorowicz (submitted)

• An economic perspective on the determinants of constitutional violations in post-socialist countries (submitted)

• Do people value compliance with (constitutional) fiscal rules? Evidence from a conjoint experiment, co-author: J. Kantorowicz (submitted)

Current membership / Aktualne funkcje

• Department of Political Economy (Katedra Ekonomii Policznej) - Head

• Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector (CEAPS) - Director

• European Public Choice Society (EPCS) - Board Member

• European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) - Board Member, Working Group on Empirical Constitutional Studies - Co-Chair

• European Association of Law and Economics (EALE), American Law and Economics Association (ALEA), Public Choice Society (PCS), International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS), Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomicznej Analizy Prawa (PSEAP, Polish Association of Law and Economics) - Member

• Fundacja Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (University of Warsaw Foundation) - Audit Committee Member

• Senacka Komisja Prawno-Statutowa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (University of Warsaw Senate Committee on Law and Statutes) - Member

• Rada Naukowa Dyscypliny Ekonomia i Finanse Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (Scientific Council of the Economics and Finance Discipline, University of Warsaw) - Member

• Rada Wydziału Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw) - Member

• Kwartalnik "Ekonomista" ("Ekonomista" Quarterly) - Editorial Board Member

COURSES/ZAJĘCIA 2025/2026

• Microeconomics 3
• Ekonomia polityczna (wykład)
• Ekonomia polityczna (ćwiczenia)
  • grupa 210
• Political Economy
• Public Choice i Public Governance
• Ekonomiczna analiza polityki i prawa (seminarium licencjackie)
• Economic Analysis of Law and Politics (bachelor seminar)
• Ekonomiczna analiza polityki i prawa (seminarium magisterskie)
• Economic Analysis of Law and Politics (master seminar)