Kristijan Fidanovski
Economist
email: fidanovski@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-25
Kristijan Fidanovski is Economist at wiiw focusing on tobacco taxation in Eastern Europe and macroeconomic analysis in the Western Balkans. He is also a final-year PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention and a former Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, where he has examined the discursive representation, policy manifestation, political drivers, and fertility outcomes of pronatalism in (Eastern) Europe. His other research interests include labor market adaptation to population aging, EU integration, nationalism, and electoral systems. He has provided consulting services to the European Union, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, among others. He holds an MA and BA in East European Studies from Georgetown University and University College London, respectively.
List of Publications
External Publications wiiw PublicationsExternal Publications
Articles in refereed journals- 'From a demographic trend to a policy problem: The framing of low fertility by pronatalist governments in North Macedonia (2009) and Serbia (2018; 2022)', Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 16, No. 19, December 2023
- 'What policy functions are reflected in the distribution of financial support for parents by child age and birth order? An analysis of 28 European countries', Wiley, Social Policy Administration, Vol. 58, Issue 3, November 2023, pp. 458-473
- 'Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries' (with et al.), Scientific Data, 10, 272, May 2023
- 'National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic' (with et al.), Nature Communications, 13, 517, April 2022
- 'What’s in a Name? Possible Ways Forward in the Macedonian Name Dispute', Slovo, 31(1), May 2018, pp. 18-44
- 'North Macedonia Goes to Euro 2020: Football and the Ethnic “Other” on Social Media' (with Vlora Rechica), in: Teodor Borisov, Maroš Melichárek and Dariusz Wojtaszyn (eds), Football in the Balkans II: A Social and Political Phenomenon, Chapter, South-East European History, Volume 9, Peter Lang Group AG, 2024
- 'Social Europe' (with Guillaume Paugam), in: Timothy Garton Ash (eds), Young Europeans Speak to EU, Chapter 4, Dahrendorf Programme, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, June 2021, pp. 49-64
- 'EU-related Conspiracy Theories in the Western Balkans: Gravitating Between Rejecting and Embracing Europe through Eurovilification and Eurofundamentalism' (with Nebojša Blanuša, Ognjan Denkovski and Biljana Gjoneska), in: Andreas Önnerfors and André Krouwel (eds), Europe: Continent of Conspiracies Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe, Chapter 10, Routledge, April 2021
- 'North Macedonia Goes Global: Pro-EU Aspiration and Anti-EU Sentiment as a Basis for EU-related Conspiracy Theories' (with Biljana Gjoneska and André Krouwel), in: Anastasiya Astapova, Onoriu Colăcel, Corneliu Pintilescu and Tamás Scheibner (eds), Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends, Chapter 12, Routledge, October 2020, pp. 250-267
- 'Turning Demographic Change into an Opportunity', European Voices, May 2024
- 'Making Babies: The Discourse, Design, and Results of Serbian Pronatalism', BalkanInsight, 4 December 2023
- 'Visa Cancellation Only Polishes Djokovic’s Martyr Image in Balkans', BalkanInsight, 20 January 2022
- 'Zoran Zaev: A Prime Minister Made and Unmade by the EU', BalkanInsight, 4 November 2021
- 'In Quo Vadis, Aida?, we all share the protagonist’s pain', New Eastern Europe, 23 April 2021
- 'What counts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia?' (with Valentino Grbavac), European Western Balkans, 7 September 2020
- 'When Our Loss Is Their Gain: COVID-19 and Government Popularity around Europe' (with Théo Boucart, Guillermo Íñiguez, Natan Pawłowski and Jakob Weizman), The New Federalist, 22 April 2020
- 'Herzog continues puzzling love affair with Gorbachev', New Eastern Europe, 28 January 2020
- 'Why Slogans Like “I Will Never Understand, But I Stand” Undermine the Fight for Racial Equality', Oxford Political Review, 30 October 2020
- 'Why a Single-District Electoral Model Might Be a Bad Idea (in Macedonian), Зошто моделот на една изборна единица е лоша идеја Кристијан Фидановски', Respublica, 16 October 2019
- 'North Macedonia’s name deal was a historic success. But any Serbia-Kosovo land swap would be a repetition of historical mistakes', New Eastern Europe, 3 July 2019
- '“Macedonian Scenario” unraveling in Serbia, but not the one Vučić has in mind', European Western Balkans, 20 March 2019
- 'Putin’s pension reforms are painful but necessary', New Eastern Europe, 23 October 2018
- 'Catalonia and the breakup of Yugoslavia: an ignorant analogy', The New Federalist, 4 October 2017
- 'North Macedonia on the European electoral map: How proportional is the Macedonian Electoral Model?' (with Vlora Rechica), in: Marko Troshanovski (eds), Institute for Democracy "Societas Civilis", Study no. 7, Skopje, April 2023
wiiw Publications
wiiw Policy Notes and Reports- 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine, Ukrainian Version: Аналіз фіскального та медичного впливу підвищення акцизів на тютюнові вироби в Україні' (with Biljana Jovanovikj, Nóra Kungl and Hana Ross), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
- 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine' (with Biljana Jovanovikj, Nóra Kungl and Hana Ross), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
- 'Tax advantage for heated tobacco products risks undermining fiscal and health gains in Ukraine´s tobacco tax reform', wiiw Opinion Piece, Vienna, December 2024
- 'wiiw launches research network on tobacco and other health-related taxes in Central and Eastern Europe', wiiw Opinion Piece, Vienna, July 2024
- 'wiiw’s health tax initiative moves its tobacco research forward with a conference and internal workshop', wiiw Opinion Piece, Vienna, July 2024