I am enrolled at the University of Novo Mesto Faculty of Economics and Informatics and the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, Slovenia.
I am Assistant Professor researching time series econometrics and tourism.
I was an Erasmus+ fellow at the University Linne in Växjö, Sweden, and the University of Wien, Austria.
I was Erasmus Mundus Ghent's postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montenegro.
Publications (all - link)
Highlights
Tourism after the pandemic. The predictions:
"Tourism managers should be aware that low-paid employees could not be sufficient for high demand". Published by Gričar, Šugar, Bojnec, 2021,
"Labour supply shortages are assumed to lead to an increase in tourism wages". Published by Južnik Rotar, Gričar, Bojnec, 2023.
"In other words, viruses have a negative /.../ effect on tourist arrivals /.../ in 2019 and 2020. On the other hand, the subsequent period shows a positive and significant impact on E. coli and Campylobacter. Each person infected by E. coli in the destination country (e.g., Slovenia) modified tourist arrivals by a rise of 3807 persons and by Campylobacter a rise of 21,061 travellers per month". Published by Gričar, Bojnec, 2022.
2023
BACKOVIĆ, Tamara, KARADŽIĆ, Vesna, GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2023). Montenegrin stock exchange market on a short-term perspective. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 16, no. 7, 315.
JUŽNIK ROTAR, Laura, GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2023). The relationship between tourism and employment: evidence from the Alps-Adriatic country. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja, vol. 33, no. 1, 2080737.
2022
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2022). Did human microbes affect tourist arrivals before the Covid-19 shock? Pre-effect forecasting model for Slovenia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 20, 13482.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan, BALDIGARA, Tea. (2022). Insight into predicted shocks in tourism: Review of an ex-ante forecasting. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 15, no. 10, 436.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2022). Modelling seasonal short-run effects in time-series tourism prices. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1-20.
GRIČAR, Sergej, ŠUGAR, Violeta, BALDIGARA, Tea. (2022). Some considerations about tourist arrivals and Covid-19 pandemic – evidence from Slovenia and Croatia. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja. doi: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2053781
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan, KARADŽIĆ, Vesna, BACKOVIĆ, Tamara. (2022). Three decades of macroeconomic flux in Montenegro and Slovenia. Montenegrin Journal of Economics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 61-71.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan, KARADŽIĆ, Vesna, BACKOVIĆ, Tamara. (2022). Tourism price normalities in two Adriatic east cost "euro" countries. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 4865-4883.
2021
GRIČAR, Sergej, ŠUGAR, Violeta. (2021). Sustainable consumption using the example of food processing in a restaurant. Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 24, 13868.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2021). Technical analysis of tourism price process in the Eurozone. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 14, no. 11, 517.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BALDIGARA, Tea, ŠUGAR, Violeta. (2021). Sustainable determinants that affect tourist arrival forecasting. Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 17, 9659.
GRIČAR, Sergej, ŠUGAR, Violeta, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2021). The missing link between wages and labour productivity in tourism: evidence from Croatia and Slovenia. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 732-753.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan, KARADŽIĆ, Vesna, BACKOVIĆ VULIĆ, Tamara. (2021). Tourism-led economic growth in Montenegro and Slovenia. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja, vol. 34, no. 1. pp. 3401-3420.
Earlier
GRIČAR, Sergej, BALDIGARA, Tea. (2019). An explorative study of tourism time-series: Evidence from Slovenia and Croatia. Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-116.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2019). Prices of short stay accommodations: time series of a eurozone country. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 4500-4519.
GRIČAR, Sergej, ŠUGAR, Violeta, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2019). Small and medium enterprises led-growth in two Adriatic countries: Granger causality approach. Economic Research-Ekonomska istraživanja, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 2161-2179.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2018). Tourism price causalities: a case of an Adriatic country. International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 82-87.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2013). Inflation and hospitality industry prices. Eastern European Economics, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 91-108.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2012). Price developments in the hospitlity industry in Slovenia. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, vol. 25, spec. ed. no. 2, pp. 139-152.
GRIČAR, Sergej, BOJNEC, Štefan. (2012). Determinants of agro-food price changes in Slovenia. Journal of Central European Agriculture, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 95-108.
International Editorial Board
Journal SN Business & Economics
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Education
I have a PhD from the department of economics at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management entitled "Analysis of the dynamics of prices in the restaurant business". Supervisor: professor Štefan Bojnec.
The Senate of the UP awards the "Srečko Kosovel" Prize for students of the University of Primorska to Sergej Gričar, PhD, for exceptional achievements in the preparation of his doctoral dissertation.
I hold a second PhD from the University of Rijeka, Faculty of tourism and hospitality Management entitled Implementation of Vector Auto-Regression Models in Tourism: State of the Art. Analysis and Further Development . Supervisor: professor Tea Baldigara.
Other information
Bilateral joint works and agreements:
Slovenia and Norway (2020-2022)
Slovenia and Montenegro (2014-2016) and (2019-2021)
Slovenia and Croatia (2017-2019)
Projects with SMEs
Manager in the industry: Spar Slovenia, 12 years.
My links
email: sergej.gricar (@) uni-nm.si