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European Commission: Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, Panteia, KEA European Affairs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, DELab – University of Warsaw, Erasmus University Rotterdam, IDEA Consult, Clarke, M., Vroonhof, P., Byrne, C., Petrov, L., Le Gall, A., Antonucci, F., Albertelli, A., Rolando, E., Ranaivoson, H., Salganik, R., Wiratama, V., Afilipoaie, A., Hardy, W., Paliński, M., Rożynek, S., Berkers, P., Calkins, T., Wijngaarden, Y., Vuijlsteke, C., Valintelyte, E., Janssens, J. (2026) Study on the discoverability of diverse European cultural content in the digital environment – Final report, Publications Office of the European Union, 2026, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/8868773

Hardy, W. (2026) The Rise of Online Crowd-Patronage: Models, Challenges, and Providing Security to the Creative Worker. In: Dalla Chiesa, C., Rykkja, A. (eds) Cultural Funding and Financing. Cultural Economics & the Creative Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96696-5_10

Paliński, M., Jusypenko, B., and Hardy, W. (2025) Behind the screens. Privacy and advertising preferences in VoD—the role of privacy concerns, persuasion knowledge, and experience. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 84, 104233. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2025.104233

Hardy, W., Krawczyk, M. and Tyrowicz, J. (2024) Internet “piracy” and book sales: a field experiment. Journal of the Economic Science Association.

Rożynek, S. and Hardy, W. (2023) Incentivising ‘pirates’ to pay – An experiment with comic book readers. Information Economics and Policy 64, 101045.

Hardy, W. (2021) Displacement from piracy in the American comic book market. Information Economics and Policy 57, 100927.

Jusypenko, B., and Wiśniewska, A. (2021) “I go, I pay”. The impact of cultural experience on willingness to subsidize culture. [In:] La economía de la cultura. Una disciplina joven. Homenaje al profesor Víctor Fernández Blanco (Cultural economics, a youthful subject. Tribute to Professor Víctor Fernández Blanco), eds. L. C. Herrero-Prieto, J. P. Rodríguez. University of Oviedo.

Hardy, W. (2021) Brace yourselves, pirates are coming! the effects of Game of Thrones leak on TV viewership. Journal of Cultural Economics 46: 27-55.

Wiśniewska, A., Budziński, W., and Czajkowski M. (2020) An economic valuation of access to cultural institutions: museums, theatres, and cinemas. Journal of Cultural Economics, 44(4): 563-587, DOI:10.1007/s10824-020-09375-3.

Krawczyk, M., Tyrowicz, J. and Hardy, W. (2020) Online and physical appropriation: evidence from a vignette experiment on copyright infringement. Behaviour & Information Technology 39(4): 481-496.

Tyrowicz, J., Krawczyk, M. and 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.

Wiśniewska, A. (2019) Quality attributes in the non-market stated-preference based valuation of cultural goods. Central European Economic Journal, 6(53), 132-150. DOI: 10.2478/ceej-2019-0012.

Wiśniewska, A., and Czajkowski, M. (2019) Designing a socially efficient cultural policy: the case of municipal theatres in Warsaw. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(4): 445-457. DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2017.1308504.

Fernández-Blanco, V., Rodríguez-Álvarez, A., and Wiśniewska, A. (2019) Measuring technical efficiency and marginal costs in the performing arts: the case of the municipal theatres of Warsaw. Journal of Cultural Economics, 43(1): 97-119. DOI: 10.1007/s10824-018-9330-8.

El Haji, A., Krawczyk, M., Sylwestrzak, M., and Zawojska, E. (2019) Time pressure and risk taking in auctions: A field experiment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 78, 68-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2018.12.001

Hardy, W., Krawczyk, M. and Tyrowicz, J. (2019) File sharing as conditional cooperation: evidence from a framed field experiment. Applied Economics Letters 26(2).

Zawojska, E. (2017) A consequential contingent valuation referendum: Still not enough to elicit true preferences for public goods! Central European Economic Journal. 2(49), 73-90. Read more.

Czajkowski, M., Vossler, C.A., Budziński, W., Wiśniewska, A., and E. Zawojska. (2017) Addressing empirical challenges related to the incentive compatibility of stated preference methods. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 142, 47-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.023

Krawczyk, M., Tyrowicz, J., Kukla-Gryz, A. and Hardy, W. (2017) Do pirates play fair? Testing copyright awareness of sports viewers. Behaviour & Information Technology 36(6): 650-661.

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