Book

• Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality, forthcoming
  • A book about political power and inequality, showing how the collusion between political and corporate interests affects the distribution of incomes in society. Its most important goal is to offer a novel perspective on the long-run origins of inequality by introducing the concept of elite networks and examining its impact on the distribution of power and incomes. 

Published papers

​Peer-reviewed Journals 

• "The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008-2009 US financial crisis", February 2021, Public Choice, 189, 213-238. doi.org/10.1007/s11127-020-00871-w
  • 2nd PhD paper; Presented at the APSA 2018 annual conference
• "Corruption and re-election: How much can politicians steal before getting punished?", March 2020, Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(1): 124-143. doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.09.002
  • 1st PhD paper; Presented at the APSA 2017 annual conference, August 2017 and the PIIRS Conference at Princeton University, April 2018
  • Findings presented at the Croatian Parliament, in front of the National Council for Monitoring the Anti-Corruption Strategy
• "Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia" (with Josip Glaurdić), April 2018, East European Politics, 34(2): 173-193. doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1457957
• "Political economy of local government in Croatia: winning coalitions, corruption and taxes", December 2017, Public Sector Economics 41(4): 387-420. doi.org/10.3326/pse.41.4.1
  • Awarded the prof.dr. Marijan Hanžeković annual prize for 2017 for best paper
• "Granting votes: Exposing the political bias of intergovernmental grants using the within-between specification for panel data" (with Josip Glaurdić), April 2017, Public Choice 171(1): 223–241. doi:10.1007/s11127-017-0435-y 
• "To Invest or Not to Invest, That is the Question: Analysis of Firm Behavior Under Anticipated Shocks" (with Dejan Kovač, Nikola Kleut, and Boris Podobnik), August 2016, PLoS ONE 11(8): e0158782. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158782
• "Voting after war: Legacy of conflict and the economy as determinants of electoral support in Croatia" (with Josip Glaurdić), June 2016, Electoral Studies, 42, 135–145. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2016.02.012 
• "Proxy politics, economic protest, or traditionalist backlash: Croatia's referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage" (with Josip Glaurdić), July 2016, Europe-Asia Studies , Volume 68 (5): 803-825. dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2016.1186610 
• "Does the Wage Gap between Private and Public Sectors Encourage Political Corruption?" (with Boris Podobnik and H. Eugene Stanley), November 2015, PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141211 
• "Prosperity and peace: Economic interests and war legacy in Croatia's EU referendum vote" (with Josip Glaurdić), December 2015, European Union Politics , Volume 16(4): 577-600. doi:10.1177/1465116515580179
• "Political Economy of the US Financial Crisis 2007-2009", January 2011, Financial Theory and Practice 35(1): 91-128. 

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In Croatian:

• "Je li Županov imao pravo? Testiranje podrijetla i perzistencije egalitarnog sindroma" (with Aleksandar Štulhofer and Ivan Burić), June 2017, Društvena Istraživanja, 26(2): 207-225. doi: 10.5559/di.26.2.04 ​(​Was Županov Right? Testing the Origin and Persistence of the Egalitarian Syndrome)​​
  
  

PhD Thesis 

• "When politicians collude with firms. The impact of elite networks on inequality." University of Oxford, Successfully defended in April 2019, available at the Oxford University Research Archive. 

Other (Book chapters, research reports, essays)

• "Political Economy of Corruption, Clientelism, and Vote-Buying in Croatian Local Government" in Petak and Kotarski (eds.) Policy-Making at the European Periphery: The Case of Croatia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 
• ​"The Euro Crisis in the Periphery: Patterns of Contagion, Imported Instabilities, and Political Turmoil" in Central and South Eastern Europe 2017, 17th edition, London, Routledge, 2016. 
• "Korupcija u javnim nabavama", HUB Think tank, September 2015
• "Croatia: Challenges after EU Accession" (with Luka Oreskovic) in E.E. Zeff and E.B. Pirro (eds.) The European Union and the Member States, 3rd Edition, Lynne Reinner Publishers, USA, 2015
• "What happened to our dream of democracy? And why democracy will, as always, prevail", Essay, May 2014​
• "Unburdening Enterprise. Reducing regulation for UK small and medium-sized businesses" Adam Smith Institute Research paper, London, October 2012.
        Covered in the Financial Times, see summary here.
• "Red Tape Challenged", Policy report, British Chambers of Commerce, London, July 2012
        (see summary here)

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Working papers

• ​Elite networks and inequality: Political connections and personal networks among top corporate income earners, March 2018 (3rd PhD paper)​
• ​Corruption and resource misallocation: Can corruption explain the productivity decline during the Great Recession? (with Jurica Zrnc), March 2017 ​
• Persistent electoral success with endogenous rents: Can politicians extract rents and still stay in power?, 2015
  (most recent version here)
  • ​Paper presented at the 50th annual Public Choice Society Conference in New Orleans, March 2013

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