Publications
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
Hardy, W., Rożynek, W. (2026) Promoting music through user-generated content? The diverse effects of TikTok on music discovery. ACEI Working Paper Series, AWP-06-2026.
Matysiak, A., Andersson, L., Hardy, W. (2026) Technological Change, Labour Markets and Family Behaviours in Sweden. WNE Working Paper No. 5/2026 (499).
Pavelea, A.M., Matysiak, A., Hardy, W. (2026) Exposure to a job loss, care obligations and participation in training. rEUsilience Working Paper Series: 23.
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.
Matysiak, A., Hardy, W. and van der Velde, L. (2024) Structural labour market change and gender inequality in earnings. Work, Employment and Society.
Rożynek, S. and Hardy, W. (2023) Incentivising ‘pirates’ to pay – An experiment with comic book readers. Information Economics and Policy 64, 101045.
Lewandowski, P., Park, A., Hardy, W., Du, Y. and Wu, S. (2022) Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data. World Bank Economic Review 36 (3): 687–708.
Hardy, W. (2021) Displacement from piracy in the American comic book market. Information Economics and Policy 57, 100927.
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.
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.
Lewandowski, P., Keister, R., Hardy, W. and Górka, S. (2020) Ageing of routine jobs in Europe. Economic Systems 44(4).
Hardy, W., Krawczyk, M. and Tyrowicz, J. (2019) File sharing as conditional cooperation: evidence from a framed field experiment. Applied Economics Letters 26(2).
Hardy, W., Keister, R. and Lewandowski, P. (2018) Educational upgrading, structural change and the task composition of jobs in Europe. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 26(2): 201-231.
Hardy, W., Kiełczewska, A., Lewandowski, P. and Magda, I. (2018) Job retention among older workers in central and Eastern Europe. Baltic Journal of Economics 18(2): 69-94.
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.
Hardy, W., Keister, R. and Lewandowski, P. (2016) Do entrants take it all? The evolution of task content of jobs in Poland. Ekonomia 47: 23-50.