Irena Grosfeld

Biographic Data

ID5927427
NAMEIrena Grosfeld
GIVEN NAMESIrena
FAMILY NAMEGrosfeld
SIGNATUREGROSFELD I
AFFILIATIONSParis School of Economics
ORCID0000-0003-4602-983X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity

    Irena Grosfeld, Etienne Madinier et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Journal Applied…2024

    Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to propaganda on state TV, resulting in a switch of some of its audience to independent TV. Municipalities with access to independent TV continued to follow a long-term secularization trend, while mu…

  • Independent Media and Religiosity

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Etienne Madinier et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital

    Sascha O Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2020

    We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and resettled (primarily) in the newly acquired Western Territories, from which the Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that, while there were no pre-WWII differences in educational attainment, Poles with a …

  • Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economic Studies2019

    Using detailed panel data from the Pale of Settlement area between 1800 and 1927, we document that anti-Jewish pogroms—mob violence against the Jewish minority—broke out when economic shocks coincided with political turmoil. When this happened, pogroms primarily occurred in places where Jews dominated middleman occupations, i.e., moneylending and grain trading. This evidence is inconsistent with the scapegoating hypothesis, according to which Jew…

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital

    Sascha Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.REPORTNational Bureau of Economic…2018

    We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in largescale migration. Poles were forced to move from the Kresy territories in the East (taken over by the USSR) and were resettled mostly to the newly acquired Western Territories, from which Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected …

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital

    Open AccessSascha O Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2018

  • Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2016

  • Cultural vs. economic legacies of empires

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Ekaterina ZhuravskayaARTICLEJournal of Comparative Economics2014

  • Historical Legacies in Contemporary Politics

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2013

  • Persistent Anti-Market Culture

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Alexander Rodnyansky et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012

  • La montée de l'aversion à l'inégalité

    Irena Grosfeld, Claudia SenikARTICLERevue économique2009References: 4

    Cet article illustre la montée de l’aversion à l’inégalité dans un pays en transition vers le marché. Il explore les attitudes subjectives des citoyens polonais recueillies dans des enquêtes répétées de 1992 à 2005. Il identifie une rupture dans la relation entre inégalité et satisfaction. À une première phase, pendant laquelle l’inégalité des revenus est assimilée à l’élargissement des opportunités, succède une seconde phase marquée par l’impact…

  • The Emerging Aversion to Inequality - Evidence from Poland, 1992-2005

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Claudia SenikARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2008

  • The Emerging Aversion to Inequality

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Claudia SenikARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2008

  • The Emerging Aversion to Inequality

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Claudia SenikARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2008

  • Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance

    Open AccessIrena GrosfeldARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2006

  • Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2001

  • The Evolution of Ownership Structure in Firms Privatized through Wholesale Schemes in the Czech Republic and Poland

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Iraj HashiARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2001

  • Le marché du travail russe

    Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik‐Leygonie et al.ARTICLERevue d’études comparatives…1999

    Cet article propose une vision du marché du travail russe permettant d'expliquer la coexistence d'éléments d'inertie et de flexibilité par un phénomène de segmentation. Plaçant l'incertitude au cœur des décisions des firmes et des employés, il montre que les travailleurs, qui ont tous une aversion pour le risque, peuvent adopter des comportements différenciés selon leur productivité relative. Certains, bénéficiant de perspectives favorables, adop…

  • Wage and Investment Behavior in Transition

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Jean‐François Nivet et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal1997

  • Trois enjeux des privatisations à l'Est

    Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik‐Leygonie et al.ARTICLERevue économique1996References: 3

    Grosfeld Irena, Senik-Leygonie Claudia. Trois enjeux des privatisations à l'Est. In: Revue économique, volume 47, n°6, 1996. pp. 1351-1371

  • Crédibilité des réformes et ajustement des entreprises en Pologne et en République tchèque

    Olivier Bouin, Irena GrosfeldARTICLERevue économique1995

    Cet article se propose d'analyser les comportements des entreprises polonai­ses et tchèques en les reliant aux politiques de réforme économique radicale. Sur la base d'un échantillon de 400 grandes entreprises industrielles et de vingt études de cas, nous montrons que l'ampleur et la nature des ajustements sont relati­vement comparables. Notre analyse des origines de ces restructurations au cours de la période de pré-privatisation suggère que la …

  • The Paradox of Transformation

    Irena GrosfeldCHAPTERPolitical Economy of Transformation1994

    In 1989 economic theory found itself confronted with an explicitly formulated demand: new East European governments started to look for its help in designing a virtuous sequence of transformation measures

  • Comparing Financial Systems, Problems of Information and Control in Economies in Transition

    Open AccessIrena GrosfeldARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal1994

  • Reform economics and western economic theory

    Open AccessIrena GrosfeldARTICLEEconomics of Planning1990

  • Privatization of State Enterprises in Eastern Europe

    Open AccessIrena GrosfeldARTICLEEast European Politics and…1990Cited by: 2