Professor Orlowski's research concentrates on international financial markets, monetary policy regimes and their impact on macroeconomic and financial stability. He has been actively involved with the European Union's eastern enlargement, particularly the design of monetary and financial integration strategies. He was instrumental in the implementation of the inflation targeting strategy in Poland and helped develop the analytical framework for macroeconomic analysis and inflation forecasting models. He served as project coordinator for the European Commission "Monetary and Exchange Rate Strategies Related to the Current European Union's Enlargement Process".
His current research interest focuses on modeling and assessing financial risk. He has worked with the European Commission Economic and Finance Committee on the post-crisis policy responses to extreme risks in financial markets.
Most recently, he received and managed a $45,000 grant award from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group Foundation for research on analyzing the volatility of financial futures and managing risk embedded in the futures’ behavior.