Institute of public finance
Public Sector Economics Journal
Public Sector Economics
2024 Conference

Program committee


Lara Lebedinski, University of Vienna, Austria

Lara works as a senior researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy (2012). From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a senior research fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and from 2017 to 2022 as research assistant professor at the Institute of Economic Sciences, Serbia. Her research covers topics related to human capital, labour economics and family economics.


Dubravko Mihaljek, co-editor of PSE journal, Institute of Public Finance, Croatia

Dubravko was until recently Senior Adviser at the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, where he led outreach efforts to central banks, contributed to the BIS analysis of the global economy, and acted as Secretary to the Group of Governors from Small Open Economies. Currently a co-editor of the journal Public Sector Economics at the Institute of Public Finance and a member of the Croatian National Bank Audit Committee.


Mark Millin, Department of Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Mark is a Professional Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Auckland. His teaching interests focus on principles- and intermediate-level microeconomics and macroeconomics. His research interests are multidisciplinary: applied macroeconomics; comparative empirical public finance; education economics; equity and language in education.


Harry Anthony Patrinos, University of Arkansas, USA

Harry Anthony Patrinos is the Head of the Department of Education Reform and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Education Policy at the University of Arkansas. He was until recently the Senior Adviser, Education, at the World Bank. He specializes in the economics of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships. Previously, he worked in the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia. He managed education teams in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, and the Global Unit. He led lending operations and analytical work programs in Latin America. He co-led the development of the Harmonized Learning Outcomes database, part of the Human Capital Index, published in Nature. He has studied and worked extensively on the socioeconomic status of Indigenous Peoples. He has many publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than 50 journal articles. He previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. Mr. Patrinos received a doctorate from the University of Sussex.


Martina Pezer, Institute of Public Finance, Croatia

Martina is a Research Associate at the Institute of Public Finance and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science within the Department of Mathematics. She obtained her PhD at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business. Her research focuses on public sector economics and social policy, with a particular emphasis on tax-benefit microsimulation, tax-benefit policies, family economics, poverty, and income inequality.


Šime Smolić, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Šime is an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) where he obtained his PhD. He has been the country team leader of the SHARE (The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) study in Croatia since 2014 for the 4th consecutive wave and a representative of the FEB – Scientific Partner Institution – in SHARE-ERIC. His primary research interests are health economics, the economics of ageing, health economy and survey analysis.  


Sunčica Vujić, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Sunčica is a Professor of Applied Econometrics at the University of Antwerp. She holds affiliations with the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Bath. She is a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Her research interests are in the fields of applied econometrics and labour economics, focussing on crime, education, gender, discrimination and pro-social behaviour. She serves the community as a secretary of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the VU University Amsterdam.


Felix Weinhardt, European University Viadrina, Germany

Felix is a professor of Public Economics at the Europa-University Viadrina and a researcher at the DIW Berlin. He is also associated with the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, IZA and CESifo. Felix obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics. He is interested in the causes and consequences of social and spatial inequalities. Current research areas include: Economics of education, Labour supply and retirement and Gender inequalities in market and non-market work.



Organising committee from the Institute of Public Finance


Vjekoslav Bratić, Mihaela Bronić, Sara Čulo, Martina Fabris, Marina Nekić, Martina Pezer, Kristina Vačevski
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