Discussion of cooperation with Warsaw University

In February 2023, teachers of the Department of International Economic Relations Tarasenko S.V. and Plastun O.L. held a meeting-negotiation with Prof. Jan Hagamejer from the University of Warsaw regarding joint project work in Poland’s Horizon and Erasmus research programs.

Jan Hagemejer’s areas of expertise are international trade as well as macroeconomic and structural issues. He graduated from University of Warsaw where he also obtained his PhD and habilitation, as well as from Purdue University (MA in Economics). He works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Prior to joining CASE, Jan Hagemejer worked as the head of Structural Analysis Division at the National Bank of Poland as well as the Center for Global Economic Analysis at Purdue University. His publications include, among others, works on trade policy reform evaluations, global value chains, productivity and internationalization as well as on various macroeconomic and structural issues (pension system reforms, services sector, energy and environment, inflation, fiscal policy, business cycle etc.). He also has a considerable experience in working with firm-level data.

His experience includes supervising research projects undertaken at the University of Warsaw and financed by the Polish National Science Center, which were devoted to trade, trade policy and the enterprise sector. In the past, he also took part as an investigator in several other projects funded by the National Science Centre as well as the European Commission, for example, the DISSETLLE project on dispute settlements in trade, the MicroDyn project on firm-level analysis of internationalization, the EMERYT project devoted to pension system reforms, as well as several projects EU-funded trade-related projects undertaken by the Femise consortium. Moreover, he was involved in several projects for the Polish government devoted to CGE-based ex-ante analyses of trade liberalization, for example the Round of WTO and the EU Service Directive.

According to the results of the meeting, the following areas of joint research activity are defined: influence of government decisions on macroeconomic variables and trade flows analysis.