Wojciech Hardy

• Hardy W. (2021), Displacement from piracy in the American comic book market. Information Economics and Policy, 100927.
• Hardy W. (2021), Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! The effects of Game of Thrones leak on TV viewership. Journal of Cultural Economics.
• Lewandowski P., Keister R., Hardy W., Górka S. (2020), Ageing of routine jobs in Europe, Economic Systems 44 (4).
• Tyrowicz J., Krawczyk M., Hardy W. (2020), Friends or foes? A meta-analysis of the relationship between “online piracy” and the sales of cultural goods, Information Economics and Policy 53, 100879.
• Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J., Hardy W. (2020), Online and physical appropriation: evidence from a vignette experiment on copyright infringement, Behaviour & Information Technology 39 (4), 481-496.
• Hardy W., Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J. (2019), File sharing as conditional cooperation: evidence from a framed field experiment, Applied Economics Letters 26 (2), 91-96.
• Hardy W., Kiełczewska A., Lewandowski P., Magda I. (2018), Job retention among older workers in central and Eastern Europe, Baltic Journal of Economics 18 (2).
• Hardy, Keister R., Lewandowski P. (2018), Educational upgrading, structural change and the task composition of jobs in Europe, Economics of Transition 26(2), 201-231.
• Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J., Kukla-Gryz A., Hardy (2017), Do pirates play fair? Testing copyright awareness of sports viewers, Behaviour & Information Technology 36(6).
• Hardy, Keister R., Lewandowski P. (2016), Do entrants take it all? The evolution of task content of jobs in Poland, Ekonomia 47.
• Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J., Kukla-Gryz A., Hardy (2015), “Piracy is not theft!” Is it just students who think so?, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 54, 32-39.
• Hardy W. (2015), Długość kwestionariusza a precyzja odpowiedzi na pytania ilościowe w badaniach ankietowych, Ekonomista 2015/5.

REPORTS
▪ Sokołowski J., Hardy W., Lewandowski P., Wyrzykowska K., Messyasz K., Szczepaniak K., Frankiewicz-Olczak, I. (2019), Comprehensive study of the Polish music market (orig. Kompleksowe badanie polskiego rynku muzycznego). Report for the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland.
▪ Gyódi K., Hardy W., Mazur J. (2019), Airbnb in Warsaw. Market characteristics and challenges for the city. (orig. Airbnb w Warszawie. Charakterystyka rynku i wyzwania dla miasta). DELab report for the City of Warsaw.
▪ Hardy W., Kalinowski H., Palczyńska M., Smoter M. (2019), The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Second Thematic Report. (red.) Iga Magda. Ministry of Economic Development, Poland.
▪ Baran J., Hardy W., Kalinowski H. (2018), The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Third Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement. (ed.) Iga Magda. Ministry of Economic Development, Poland.
▪ Górka S., Hardy W., Keister R., Lewandowski P. (2017), Age, tasks and skills in European Labour Markets. Background Paper for the World Bank report “Growing United: Upgrading Europe’s Convergence Machine”. IBS Research Report 04/2017.
▪ Górka S., Hardy W., Keister R., Lewandowski P. (2017), Tasks and skills in European Labour Markets. Background Paper for the World Bank report “Growing United: Upgrading Europe’s Convergence Machine”. IBS Research Report 03/2017.
▪ Baran J., Hardy W., Kalinowski H. (2017), The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Second Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement. (ed.) Iga Magda. Ministry of Economic Development, Poland.

• Hardy W. (2020), Consumer switching costs in a market with legal and pirate providers, IBS Working Papers, No. 08/2020.
• Lewandowski P., Park, A., Hardy, W., Du, Y. (2019), Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data, IZA Discussion Paper 12339.
• Hardy, Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J. (2014), Internet piracy and book sales: a field experiment. WNE Working Papers, No. 23/2014 (140).
• Hardy, Krawczyk M., Tyrowicz J. (2013), Why is online piracy ethically different from theft? A vignette experiment. WNE Working Papers, No. 24/2013 (109).

Hardy W. (2013), How to perfectly discriminate in a crowd? A theoretical model of crowdfunding. WNE Working Papers, No. 16/2013 (101).

2021:

• Konline 2021, Online. Presented: American comic book market in times of digitalization (pol. Rynek komiksu amerykańskiego w dobie cyfryzacji).

2020:

• Economics of Copyright in the Cultural and Creative Industries Workshop (CIPPM), Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Presented: Internet piracy and video game sales – Evidence from two studies.

2019:

• 17^th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) “Entrepreneurship for a Better World”, Utrecht, Netherlands. Accepted (not presented due to unrelated reasons, but with participation): Digital disruption in the creative industries: the case of the American comic book market.
• Ninth European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark. Presented: Does digital piracy of comic books displace sales? Evidence from a survey of comics readers.
• Komunikacja-Media-Kultura w erze nowych mediów, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Changes in the audiovisual market in the times of digitalisation – competing with piracy, new intermediaries and current trends (in Polish).

2018:

• Young Researchers Workshop at the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics (ACEI), Melbourne, Australia. Presented: Pre-release leaks as one-time incentives for switching to unauthorised sources of cultural content.
• CopyCamp 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: “No evidence of relationship” does not equal “evidence of no relationship” – a few words on the media misinterpretation of the “buried” EU report.. (Recording)
• 35th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE), Milan, Italy. Presented: Pre-release leaks of content as one-time incentives for switching to unauthorised sources.
• 20^th International Conference on Cultural Economics (ACEI), Melbourne, Australia. Presented: Pre-release leaks as one-time incentives for switching to unauthorised sources of cultural content.
• Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Does unauthorized digital distribution of comic books displace sales? Evidence from readers survey.
• 2018 Jobs & Development Conference. Bogota, Colombia. Presented: Routine and ageing? The intergenerational Divide In The Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe.

• 2017:

  • Internet Governance Forum Poland 2017, Warsaw, Poland. Speaker in the panel: Creators and users among online platforms and blockchains – the future of collective governance. (Recording)
  • CopyCamp 2017, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! The long-term effects of Game Of Thrones leak on TV viewership. (Recording)
  • 3^rd International DELab UW Conference: Ongoing digitalization of economies and societies. Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! The long-term effects of Game Of Thrones leak on TV viewership.
  • Warsaw International Economic Meeting 2017 (WIEM), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! The long-term effects of Game Of Thrones leak on TV viewership.
  • 5^th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, Mannheim, Germany. Presented: Job Retention among Older Workers in Central and Eastern Europe.

  2015:

  • 2015 Scientific Days (pol. Dni Nauki 2015), Avangarda, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Internet „piracy” – what we have learned from three years of experiments and research (pol. „Piractwo” internetowe czyli czego nauczyły nas trzy lata eksperymentów i badań).
  • Warsaw International Economic Meeting 2015 (WIEM), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Does YouTube displace music sales? Evidence from a natural experiment.

  2014:

  • CopyCamp 2014, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Internet piracy and book sales: a field experiment. (Recording)
  • GRAPE Conference: „Piracy” on the book market – what we know and what we don’t (pol. Konferencja GRAPE: „Piractwo” na rynku książki – co wiemy a czego nie?), Warsaw, Poland. Presented: E-book, audiobook and book – friends or foes? (pol. E-book, audiobook i książka – Wrogowie czy przyjaciele?)
  • 31st Annual European Association of Law & Economics conference, Aix-en-Provence, France. Presented 1: Internet piracy and book sales: a field experiment. Presented 2: ”Piracy is not theft!” Is it just students who think so?
  • The 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association, Dead Sea, Jordan. Presented: Why is online piracy ethically different from theft? A vignette experiment.
  • Royal Economic Society conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, England. Presented: Why is online piracy ethically different from theft? A vignette experiment.

  European School of New Institutional Economics, Cargese, France. Presented: How to perfectly discriminate in a crowd? A theoretical model of crowdfunding

• 4th International DELab UW Conference: Rethinking digitalization of economies and societies, Warsaw, Poland. Presented: Does unauthorized digital distribution of comic books displace sales? Evidence from readers survey.

• Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! The effects of Game of Thrones leak on TV viewership. Economists Talk Art, 02/16/2021. URL: https://economiststalkart.org/2021/02/16/brace-yourselves-pirates-are-coming-the-effects-of-game-of-thrones-leak-on-tv-viewership/
• „Culture and creativity in times of COVID-19” – music sector. DELab UW blog, 04/15/2020. URL (in Polish): https://www.delab.uw.edu.pl/kultura-i-tworczosc-w-czasach-covid-19-sektor-muzyczny/ . Twitter thread summary (in English): https://twitter.com/WHardyPL/status/1250700015120629761

An ageing population needs older workers. World Bank Blog, 05/26/2016. URL: https://blogs.worldbank.org/jobs/ageing-population-needs-older-workers