International research projects (selected)

2020-2021: research grant under the DFID-World Bank-UNHCR programme:  Preventing social conflict and promoting social cohesion in forced displacement contexts, research title: “Does exposure to conflict drive education and income differences between displaced individuals and their hosts?”. Position, team member of a research team with 2 member from Princeton University, USA.

2021: National expert and consultant: “How migration, human capital and labour deployment interact in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The project coordinated by Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) and European Training Foundation (ETF), supported by the European Commission.

2016-2019: BiH team leader, policy work package leader for the whole consortium of 9 countries and senior researcher: “Closing the gap between formal and informal institutions in the Western Balkans (INFORM)”. Programme: European Union H2020 research grant, Executive Research Agency, European Commission. Consortium leader: University College London, UK.

2014-2016: Team leader and senior researcher: “Social capital, migration and entrepreneurship: evidence from a post-conflict environment”. Project, Regional Research Promotion Programme – Western Balkans, coordinated by the University of Fribourg Switzerland, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

2014-2016: BiH team member: “Life strategies and survival strategies of households in South-East European societies in the time of crisis”; SCOPES research grant, Swiss National Foundation. Consortium involves representatives of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Institute of Sociology. Project coordinator University of Zurich, Switzerland.

2013: Team leader and senior researcher: “Diaspora and development – Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Research project, Economic Institute Sarajevo in collaboration with the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, Universite de Neuchatel, supported by the Swiss Development Agency.

2012: Team leader and senior researcher: „Ethnic tensions, institutional and economic performance in Bosnia and Herzegovina: What are(not) the causal links?“, Regional Research Promotion Programme – Western Balkans, University of Fribourg, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

2012: Team leader and senior researcher: “Minority Entrepreneurs: networks, trust and performance“. Research grant: CERGE-EI, Global Development Network, Prague.

2011-2012: Team member: “Effects of the Global Economic Crisis on Public Spending and Income Distribution in Bosnia and Herzegovina“, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.

2011: Team member “Rising food prices in Bosnia and Herzegovina – a gender assessment of vulnerabilities and coping mechanism”, consultancy work for the World Bank.