Job title: Senior research associate
Vladimir Arčabić is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, where he has been employed since 2009, an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2024, and a senior research associate at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb since 2026. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics and Business in 2015; in 2016, he spent a one-year post-doctoral education at the University of Alabama, USA. His research interests are macroeconomics, business cycles, applied econometrics, time series and macroeconomic modeling, with a particular emphasis on convergence and nonlinearities in macroeconomics. He attended different workshops, including summer schools in Surrey and Essex in the United Kingdom and workshops in Zagreb. He regularly publishes in prestigious international journals, including Economic Inquiry, Energy Economics, Economic Modelling, Economic Analysis and Policy and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. He has been awarded several times for his research, including the National Science Award for social sciences for the year 2023 and the prestigious Marijan Hanžeković annual award in 2018 for the best scientific paper. In addition, he has been awarded several times by the Faculty of Economics and Business. He received the Mijo Mirković Award in 2018 and 2019, the annual award for overall research productivity in 2021, and Ljubomir Martić and Pero Jurković awards in 2023. According to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database, he is ranked in the top 25% of economists in Croatia according to the number and dynamics of his publications. He participated in several scientific projects for the Croatian Science Foundation, the European Social Fund, the University Development Fund, and the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports. He also participated in several commercial projects, including those for the World Bank and the European Commission. He teaches undergraduate courses in Macroeconomics, Croatian Economy and Economic Development, and Development Economics in English. At the doctoral program in Economics he is teaching courses Macroeconomic Analysis and Topics in Applied Macroeconomics. Within the Study Abroad program of the University of Alabama, he teaches courses in Principles of Macroeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics.