Leonarda Srdelić
Lecturer at Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZŠEM)
Economist working on the macroeconomics of climate change, public finance and production networks.
Current position
- since September 2026
- Lecturer, Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZŠEM), Zagreb
Previous positions
- February 2024 to September 2026
- Research Fellow, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb
- November 2023 to January 2024
- Climate Risk Modelling Adviser, ATD Solucije d.o.o.
- July 2020 to October 2023
- Analyst, Croatian National Bank, Zagreb
Education
- February 2022
- PhD in Economics, University of Siena (Facoltà di Economia “Richard M. Goodwin”)
- 2017
- MSc in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
- 2016
- BSc in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Professional training
- 2025
- Climate in Macroeconomic Frameworks, International Monetary Fund, Washington
- 2024
- Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR), GARP certificate
- 2019 to 2025
- Online courses in climate finance, macroeconomics, econometrics and programming (IMF Institute, Joint Vienna Institute, NASBA, DataCamp)
Full list of courses
IMF Institute for Capacity Development (2025)
- Inclusive Growth, Fiscal Policy
- Projecting Public Debt, The Public Debt Dynamics Tool
IMF, Macroeconomics of Climate Change (2022 and 2023)
- Green Public Finance
- Climate Risks for the Financial Sector
- Economics of Adaptation
- Transitioning to Net-zero
- Mitigation Strategies
- Science, Economics, and Policies
Output Decomposition and Forecasting (2022)
- Irina Panovska, Croatian Science Foundation
Joint Vienna Institute (IMF), online courses (2020 to 2022)
- Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
- Macroeconomic Forecasting
- Foreign Direct Investment Policies
- Macroeconomic Diagnostics
- Econometric Modelling and Forecasting
- Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1 and Part 2
NASBA (2020)
- Learning VBA in Excel
DataCamp and LinkedIn Learning (2019)
- Learning the R Tidyverse
- Introduction to Data Science
- Programming Foundations, Fundamentals
- Python Essential Training
Selected projects
- Croatian Science Foundation
- Stress-Testing Public Finances under Climate Risk: Evidence from Croatia
Installation Research Projects, UIP-2026-6610, 2026–2029
Principal investigator Tanja Fatur Šikić, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Rijeka. Role: research team member.
The project examines how climate risks and the low-carbon transition affect Croatia’s public finances and develops the first stochastic DIGNAD macroeconomic model tailored to Croatia. Her work focuses on the impact of carbon pricing on the performance of firms inside and outside the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Project description - OECD
- LIFT, Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions. Analysis of firm-to-firm transaction data from VAT returns to monitor supply chain shocks and target economic policy. About the project
Conferences
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Rijeka, Scientific Society of Economists
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Point Zero Forum 2024
Zürich, GFTN and the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance
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15th Young Economists’ Seminar, 28th Dubrovnik Economic Conference
Dubrovnik, Croatian National Bank
Scholarships
- November 2017 to July 2020
- PEGASO Scholarship for Research, funded by the Universities of Siena, Florence and Pisa
- 2016
- Scholarship for the Best Full-Time Student Parent, awarded by the Croatian association Hrvatska može bolje
Refereeing
- Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
- Tourism, An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Politická ekonomie
- 16th Odissey, conference proceedings of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Skills
- Programming
- R, Python, Excel VBA, LaTeX, Git, GitHub, Jekyll
- Data analysis
- Econometric methods, work with macroeconomic, microeconomic and firm-level data, geospatial analysis
- Languages
- Croatian (native), English, Italian
Selected publications
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Srdelić, L. and Dávila-Fernández, M. (2025)
Demographic transition and economic growth: Insights from the dynamic trade-multiplier
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 49(4), 755–795 Q1 SCImago
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Srdelić, L. and Dávila-Fernández, M. (2024)
International trade and economic growth in Croatia
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 68, 240–258 Q1 SCImago
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Srdelić, L. and Barišić, R. (2025)
Ekonomska misao i praksa (Economic Thought and Practice), 34(1), 85–105
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Srdelić, L. (2025)
Energy price subsidies and the green transition – clash of the titans?
IPF Notes, 18(142), 1–13
