Oddziaływanie inflacji na wzrost gospodarczy w Polsce w okresie 1991-2009

The main aim of the study was to analyze the impact of inflation on the economic growth in Poland in the period from 1991 to 2009. In the paper, methods based on the literature study of international economics and international finance as well as econometric methods (Vector Autoregression Model - VAR) were used. All statistics used in the paper came from the statistical base EconStats. On the basis of the analysis of the relationship between inflation and the economic growth in Poland in the period from 1991 to 2009 you can point to several key conclusions. Firstly, relationship between the inflation rate and the dynamics of real GDP in Poland was relatively important in this period. Moreover, on the basis of VAR model estimates, a negative influence of inflation on the economic growth in Poland over considered period was confirmed. The results also revealed that changes in the inflation rate accounted for 0.5% variability of the growth rate of real GDP in Poland after a year from the shock. Moreover, the existence of non-linear relationship between inflation and economic growth in Poland was confirmed and two threshold levels of inflation amounted to 2.49% and 11.8% were estimated.