Research
Published Academic Papers
(Forthcoming). "Technical Change and the Postwar Slowdown in Soviet Economic Growth in a Long Run Perspective, 1885-2019," Economic History Review, Advance Online Publication
Short Abstract: Capital efficiency caused the slowdown of the Soviet economy.
(2023). "The Last Yugoslavs: Ethnic Diversity and National Identity," Explorations in Economic History, 88, pp. 1-42
Short Abstract: Ethnically diverse municipalities were conducive towards the formation of Yugoslav identity because they stimulated ethnic intermarriage.
(2021). "The Nature of Technological Failure: Patterns of Biased Technical Change in Socialist Europe," Journal of Economic Surveys, 35, pp. 895-925
Short Abstract: Socialist economies in Europe failed because of the decline in capital efficiency.
(2020). "Origins of Regional Divergence: Economic Growth in Socialist Yugoslavia," Economic History Review, 73, pp. 1097-1127
Short Abstract: The Yugoslav development model was less suited to the preconditions prevailing in the less developed regions of the country.
(2018). "Socialist Growth Revisited: Insights from Yugoslavia," European Review of Economic History, 22, pp. 403-429
Short Abstract: Yugoslavia's economy failed because of distorted labor incentives brought about by labor-managed firms.
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Work in Progress
Short Abstract: Households in the initially poorer villages of Bosnia were more likely to convert to Islam during the Ottoman rule to avoid paying the poll tax levied from Christians.
"The Burden of Memory: Persistence of Ethnic Conflict in Yugoslavia," with Christoph Koenig and Filip Novokmet
Stay tuned for more...
"Borderlands and Bloodlands: The Habsburg Military Frontier and Regional Development in Croatia"
Under construction...
Book Chapters
(2020). “Regional industrialization in Yugoslavia” (with Stefan Nikolić), in Erik Buyst, Bas van Leeuwen and Robin Phillips (eds.), An Economic History of Regional Industrialisation, Routledge, pp. 79-100
Short Abstract: The book chapter tracks the evolution of industrial employment in South-East Europe at regional-level before, during and after Yugoslavia.