PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Szymon Wójcik

Earned degrees

• 2023 - GIS Analyst Postgraduate Studies, University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences (in progress)
• 2020 - PhD in Economics and Finance at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, doctoral dissertation title: Determinants of travel behaviour of the citizens of Lodz, thesis supervisor: dr hab. Paweł Baranowski, prof UŁ, thesis co-supervisor: dr Bartosz Bartosiewicz.
• 2014 - MA in Analytical Economics at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, master thesis title: The effects of inflationary shock a new keynesian DSGE approach, thesis supervisor: dr Paweł Baranowski.
• 2012 - BA in Informatics and Econometrics at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, bachelor thesis title: Forecasting inflation in Poland using vector autoregression models, thesis supervisor: dr Paweł Baranowski.

Professional experience

• 2020 - present - assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz.
• 2014 - 2020 - research assistant in the Department of Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz.
• VII 2013 - intern in Economic Institute in the National Bank of Poland.
• 2010 - 2012 - trainee in Eye of Horus Solutions.

Professional activities

• Member of Faculty Council at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, 2020-2024

Editorial positions

• Statistical editor, European Spatial Research and Policy, 2024 - present

Research Interest

My scientific career was initially rooted in monetary policy analyses with VAR and DSGE models. Since I discovered the power and versatility of discrete choice models, my research interests shifted to travel behaviour analyses at the microdata level. I generally prefer to use Stata for my research, but currently, I'm starting to explore Python.

Fields of Teaching

Microeconometrics, Economerics, Forecasting and Simulations, Choice of Investment Portfolio, Modern Monetary Policy, Quantitative Methods for Sustainable Development, Big Data & Business Decisions, Data Acquisition Methods

Publications

• Wójcik S. (2015) Forecasting inflation in Poland using vector autoregression models (in Polish), „Wiadomości Statystyczne”, Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp. 28-41.
• Wójcik S. (2016) The effects of inflationary shock in Poland a new keynesian DSGE approach (in Polish), „Acta Universitatis Lodziensis – Folia Oeconomica”, Vol. 4, No. 324, pp. 67-87, DOI: 10.18778/0208-6018.324.05.
• Baranowski P., Gądek A., Stelmasiak D., Wójcik S. (2016) What Drives Economic Migration Plans? Microdata Analysis for Poland (in Polish), „Gospodarka Narodowa”, Vol. 284, Issue 4, pp. 69-89, DOI: 10.33119/GN/100774.
• Wójcik S. (2017) Private or Public Transport? The Determinants of Travel Behaviour in Post-industrial City – the Case of Łódź, "REAL CORP 2017 - Panta Rhei - A World in Constant Motion – Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society", pp. 723-728, Wiedeń, ISSN 2521-3938.
• Baranowski P., Komor M., Wójcik S. (2017) Whose feedback matters? Empirical evidence from online auctions, "Applied Economics Letters", Vol. 25, Issue 17, pp. 1226-1229, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1412070.
• Dębski W., Feder-Sempach E., Wójcik S. (2017) Beta Parameter Stability for the Largest Companies Listed on the Polish, German, and French Market – a Comparative Study (in Polish), "Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio H – Oeconomia", No. 5, Vol. 51, pp. 69-78, DOI:10.17951/h.2017.51.5.69.
• Dębski W., Feder-Sempach E., Wójcik S. (2017) Statistical properties of rates of return of the companies listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange in the period of 2005-2015, "Ekonometria", No. 3, Vol. 57, pp. 88-100, DOI: 10.15611/ekt.2017.3.07.
• Dębski W., Feder-Sempach E., Wójcik S. (2018) Statistical Properties of Rates of Return on Shares Listed on the German, French, and Polish Markets – a Comparative Study, "Contemporary Economics", No. 1, Vol. 12, pp. 5-16, DOI: 10.5709/ce.1897-9254.260.
• Dębski W., Feder-Sempach E., Wójcik S. (2018) The risk of shares listed on the WSE. Beta parameter and its applications (in Polish), Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, ISBN: 978-83-01-19956-2.
• Dębski W., Feder-Sempach E., Wójcik S. (2018) Sensitivity Analysis of the Beta Parameter Estimated for the Blue-chip Polish Companies (in Polish), "Problemy Zarządzania - Management Issues", Vol. 16, No. 3(76), pp. 11-23, DOI: 10.7172/1644-9584.76.1.
• Wójcik S. (2019) The determinants of transport mode choice – the case of Łódź, Poland, "Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series", No. 44, pp. 93-101, DOI: 10.2478/bog-2019-0018.
• Wójcik S. (2020) The determinants of travel behaviour of the citizens of Łódź (in Polish), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, ISBN: 978-83-8220-026-3.
• Wójcik S. (2022) Factors Determining the Choice of Car as a Daily Travel Mode in Selected Polish Cities (in Polish), "Studia Regionalne i Lokalne", No. 3(89), pp. 49-66, DOI: 10.7366/1509499538904.
• Pielesiak I., Bartosiewicz B., Wójcik S. (2023) What drives them to drive? Mode choice for holiday travel in Poland and its determinants, "Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series", No. 61, pp. 132-157, DOI: 10.12775/bgss-2023-0030.

Conferences and seminars attended

• 5th Polish Nationwide Scientific Conference "Mathematics and informatics in the services of economics" – Poznan, 2015.
• International Scientific Conference "Economy and Society" – Lodz, 2015.
• International Scientific Conference "Forecasting financial markets and economic decision-making – FindEcon 2016" – Lodz, 2016.
• 4th International Scientific Conference "Spatial econometrics and regional economic analysis - SEREA 2016" – Lodz, 2016.
• International Scientific Conference "4th Polish Stata Users Group Meeting" – Warsaw, 2016.
• Polish Nationwide Scientific Seminar "18th PhD Workshops" – Uniejow, 2017.
• 11th International Scientific Conference "Man-City-Nature" – Torun, 2017.
• 22nd International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society - "REALCORP 2017" – Vienna (Austria), 2017.
• Polish Nationwide Scientific Conference "TranSopot 2018" – Sopot, 2018.
• 5th International Scientific Conference – "Spatial Econometrics and Regional Economic Analysis - SEREA 2018" – Lodz, 2018.
• Polish Nationwide Scientific Conference "TranSopot 2019" – Sopot, 2019.
• 4th International Scientific Conference – "Problems and challenges of Transport Geography" – Lodz, 2019.
• 25th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society - "REALCORP 2020" – Aachen (Germany), 2020.
• 5th International Scientific Conference – "Problems and challenges of Transport Geography" – Krakow, 2020.
• 27th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society - "REALCORP 2022" – Vienna (Austria), 2022.
• 35th AESOP Annual Congress 2023 – Lodz, 2023.
• International Scientific Conference "People-City-Transport PCT 2023" – Prague (Czechia), 2023.

Research projects

• Scholarship holder / PhD student in National Science Centre project – OPUS 10 titled: Regional economic dynamics and the effects of monetary policy, Principal Investigator: dr Paweł Gajewski.
• Consultant in National Science Centre project – OPUS 6 titled: The role and position of works councils in the Polish system of labor relations, Principal Investigator: dr Katarzyna Skorupińska.
• Investigator in own research project within funding programme for young researchers at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź titled: Travel bahaviour of the citizens of Lodzi and it's determinants - a quantitative approach, 2017.
• Investigator in own research project within funding programme for young researchers at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź titled: Application of Machine Learning methods in Lodz's citizens travel behaviour forecasting, 2020.
• Investigator in own research project within funding programme for young researchers at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź titled: Quality of Life in Cities andTravel Behaviour of its Inhabitants – an International Perspective, 2022.

Awards and distinctions

• 3rd place in the Contest for the best matser thesis in economics defended in 2013/2014 organized by Polish Economics Society branch in Lodz (Lodz 2015),
• 2nd place in the Contest for the best poster presented at the 5th Polish Nationwide Scientific Conference „Mathematics and informatics in the services of economics” (Poznan 2015),
• 2nd place in the Contest for the best scientific presentation at 6th Capital Market Congress (Warsaw 2017) - jointly with W. Dębski and E. Feder-Sempach,
• First degree collective prize awarded by the Rector of the University of Lodz for monograph - jointly with W. Dębski and E. Feder-Sempach (Lodz 2019),
• Prize for the best PhD thesis in the field of environmental protection granted by Regional Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Lodz (Lodz 2020),
• Prize for the best academic teacher in the Institute of Econometrics (University of Lodz) in 2022/2023 (Lodz 2023).

Expert appraisements and cooperation with the socio-economic environment

• Bartosiewicz B., Nowicki P., Wójcik S. (2018) Assessment of self potential for introduction of sustainable mobility plan in Lodz Metropolitan Area (commissioned by Lodz Metropolitan Area Associacion),
• Expert on sustainable transport in the 2nd Łódź citizens' panel (2023).

Courses and trainings attended

• Train-the-trainer course within TransFormation.doc programme founded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education – Lund (Sweden), 2015.
• Stata Econometrics Winter School 2016 – Porto (Portugal), 2016.
• E-learning fundamentals for academic teachers – Lodz, 2016.
• Introduction to Machine Learning in Python – Warsaw, 2017.
• Modelling the spatial heterogeneity and the cross-section dependence in panels by prof. Yongcheol Shin - Lodz, 2019.
• Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School - Krakow (on-line), 2020.
• Multilevel Modeling of Categorical Outcomes - prof. Donald Hedeker, Chicago (USA) (on-line), 2021.
• Data Analysis in Python - Masterclass - Sages (on-line), 2021.
• Practical Machine Learning - DataWorkshop (on-line), 2021.
• Multivariate analysis - StatSoft (on-line), 2022.
• Multilevel Modeling for Design and Analysis - prof. Andrew Gelman, (on-line), 2023.
• Principles of GIS in QGIS - GIS Support, (on-line), 2023.

Refereed for

• Argumenta Oeconomica Cracoviensia
• International Planning Studies
• Queios
• Scientific Reports
• Space, Society, Economy
• Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society