Working papers

• PhD Thesis: When politicians collude with firms. The impact of elite networks on inequality. University of Oxford, January 2019
• Elite networks and inequality: Political connections and personal networks among top corporate income earners, March 2018 (3rd PhD paper)
• The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effect of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008-2009 US financial crisis, September 2017 (2nd PhD paper)​​
  • Presented at the APSA 2018 annual conference, September 2018
• Corruption and re-election: How much can politicians steal before getting punished?, May 2017 (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
• 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)
  • Earlier versions: MPRA working paper 39085 (2013); Revised version (2014) available here
  • ​Paper presented at the 50th annual Public Choice Society Conference in New Orleans, March 2013

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Published papers

Peer-reviewed Journals 

• "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 Glaurdic), 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 Kovac, 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 Glaurdic), June 2016, Electoral Studies, Volume 42, pages 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 Glaurdic), 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 Glaurdic), 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)​​

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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