Sasa Drezgic

Sasa Drezgic (1978) obtained his PhD in 2008 in the field of public finance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka, Croatia. From 2002-2008 he was a research assistant and from 2008-2010 senior research assistant. From 2010 he is assistant professor at courses Public finance, Fiscal policy and Economics and policy of investments. Since 2002 he was a team leader and participant in several projects of Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sport, the Urban Institute and UNDP in the field of public finance and especially field of intergovernmental fiscal relations. In 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Global Governance Center at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an author of more than 30 publications in the field of fiscal policy, local government finance, public investments and infrastructure finance and economic development issues. He is a President of the Supervisory board of the Scientific Society of Economists in Croatia.

Fiscal policy, Fiscal and Monetary policy interactions, Macroeconomic modelling, Economic development, Local government finance