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Velibor Mačkić is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, where he has been employed since 2009. He serves as President of the Economic Analytics module council at the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study Program in Business Economics and has been a Special Advisor for the Economy and Chair of the Economic Council of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, since 2020. His academic career includes teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Behavioural Microeconomics, Microeconomics, Principles of Economics, Political Economy, and Political-Economic Analysis, as well as doctoral courses in Political Economy and Competitiveness Analysis.
Mačkić's research focuses on political economy, behavioral economics, and competitiveness analysis of modern economies. His scholarly work examines political budget cycles, electoral clientelism, fiscal transparency, and labor market dynamics, particularly concerning pensioner reactivation. He has published extensively in international journals and has received the prestigious Marijan Hanžeković Foundation Award in 2013 for the best scientific paper. His recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on the intersection of politics and economics, with particular attention to Croatian and EU contexts.
He has participated in research projects funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, European Social Fund, and Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. As a reviewer, he contributes to journals including Contemporary Economic Policy, Croatian Operational Research Review, Economic Thought and Practice, and Public Sector Economics. Mačkić is also an external associate of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Zagreb, an alumni of the Academy for Political Development, and a member of the Management Board of the Miko Tripalo Center for Democracy and Law.
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