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 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
"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.
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