Formerly Senior Adviser and Head of Macroeconomic Analysis in the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where he contributed to the BIS analysis of the global economy and acted as Secretary to the Group of Governors from Small Open Economies. He is a co-editor of the journal Public Sector Economics at the Institute of Public Finance, an external associate in Governor`s office of the Croatian National Bank, and an independent researcher.

Emerita, Institute of Public Finance; Trustee, the Hanžeković Trust. Previously, professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Her research focuses on fiscal and budget accountability, transparency and participation, public sector reforms, local finances, sustainable development goals and unofficial economy.

Director of the ifo Center for Public Economics and the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, Professor of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics and Public Finance, at the University of Munich (LMU), as well as Member of the Advisory Board of the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center. He has been involved in various research projects conducted on behalf of national ministries, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Central Bank, and the OECD. His research focuses on (empirical) public economics, labour economics, and welfare economics with particular reference to policy reforms and their empirical evaluation and the analysis of income distributions. He has published extensively in international academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the European Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Human Resources, among others.