The staff members of this Department focus their scientific interests on household behaviours, SME sector, labour and human capital market, business environment institutions, Polish systemic transformation, corporate competitiveness and corporate internationalization, economic equity and welfare economics.

1. prof dr hab Krystyna Przybylska:
area of scientific interests:
corporate competitiveness and corporate internationalization,
SME sector;

2. dr  Adam Cygan:
area of scientific interests:
ecological implications of market allocation;

3. dr Paweł Drobny:
area of scientific interests:
microeconomics – special focus on:
         - managerial economics,
         - human capital investments,
         - employee competitiveness,
         - competition policy,
personalistic economics;

4.  dr Janusz Grabowski:
area of research interests:
experience – benefits and pathologies – of Polish transformation,
effects of unfulfilled participatory expectations of large social groups: immigration for economic reasons, increasing demographic gap, scope of social poverty and exclusion,
role of institutions and instruments of financial markets in business entities’ transaction procedures,
fundamental principles of European integration vs Eurocrats’ actual performance;

5. dr Ryszard Kowalski:
area of research interests:
welfare economics,
economic equity,
poverty and social inequality;

6. dr Czesława Pilarska:
area of research interests:
direct foreign investment,
internationalization of Polish companies,
special economic zones,
clusters,
international economic competitiveness;

7. dr Bogusława Puzio-Wacławik:
area of research interests:
deregulation of labour market,
Poles’ immigration for economic reasons,
untypical forms of employment,
changes to employment structures,
unemployment and labour market problems;

8. dr Adrian Solek:
area of research interests:
microeconomics,
public policy,
market regulation,
behavioural economics,
economic psychology;

9. dr Ewa Szymanik:
area of research interests:
competitiveness of Polish exports of industrial goods to the EU,
economic situation of countries which introduce the euro,
corporate innovativeness,
economy’s competitiveness;

10. dr Tomasz Tylec:
area of research interests:
economics,
microeconomics,
managerial economics,
energy policy,
innovation policy;

11. dr Grzegorz Wałęga:
area of research interests:
microeconomics,
population’s economic activity,
household economics (income, expenditures, savings, indebtedness),
household consumption,
state’s role in economy,
retail loan market and consumer bankruptcy,
e-business,
information society;

12. Sylwia Guzdek, MA:
area of research interests:
corporate functioning in clusters,
organization and functioning of clusters,
corporate innovativeness, competitiveness, internationalization and finance: cooperation and coopetition,
functioning of micro businesses and SMEs in the EU,
functioning and support of business environment institutions for SMEs.