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
- 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
