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September 2023

Contact Information

EBS Business School 
Department of Finance
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 3
65189 Wiesbaden, Germany

+49-611-7102-1225 (office)
mrdjan.mladjan@ebs.edu
mrdjanm@alum.mit.edu

Website: www.mmladjan.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdjan-m-mladjan/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4OpTCNUAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mrdjan-Mladjan
SSRN Author ID: 2171199
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9416-3756
Web of Science ResearcherID: GLV-1345-2022

Personal Information

Date of birth: 1 May 1981
Citizenship: Serbian
Work permit: European Union

Academic Appointments

EBS Business School, Germany

Senior Lecturer of Financial Economics (2020 – )
Affiliate of EBS Impact Institute (2021 – )
Assistant Professor of Financial Economics (2013 – 2020)
Acting Assistant Professor of Financial Economics (2012 – 2013)

Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Research Affiliate (2018 – 2021)

S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, India

Visiting lecturer (fall 2015)

Education

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
PhD in Economics, Finance and Management (2008 – 2013)
Supervisor: Hans-Joachim Voth
Thesis “The Economic Consequences of Bank Failures during the Great
Depression” defended with maximum grade (Cum Laude)
Master of Research in Economics (Honors) (2006 – 2008)

University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management
Visiting student researcher, (fall 2010)

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics
MSc student of Quantitative Finance, completed coursework (2005 – 2006)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
BSc in Economics (2000 – 2004)

Mahindra United World College (MUWCI), Pune, India
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma (1998 – 2000)

Gymnasium “Mladenovac”, Serbia
Completed the first two years of coursework for curriculum-type
“Natural sciences and mathematics” (1996 – 1998)

Research Interests

Corporate Finance and Valuation
Financial Crises
Financial and Economic History
Philosophy of Economics

University Service

University administration at EBS University
Member of Senate of EBS University (2016 – 2017)
Member of Doctoral Studies Committee (2015 – 2020)
Academic Director of BSc, MSc, and MBA Summer Schools (2013 – 2019)
Served in seven faculty hiring committees (2013 – )
Served in committee for hiring Dean of Business School (2017)

Profesional Service

Editorial board member
Ekonomska Analiza (en. Economic Analysis), journal of the Institute of Economic Sciences (2022 – )
Bankarstvo (en. Banking), journal of the Association of Serbian Banks (2017 – )

Served as Referee for:
American Economic Review: Insights
Czech Science Foundation
Explorations in Economic History
Journal of Development Economics
Philosophy and Society
Banking
German Finance Association (DGF) Conference
Histories

Academic and National Service

MIT Educational Council
Educational Counselor assigned to Serbia (2005 – )

Air Force and Air Defense of Serbia and Montenegro
Serviceman (2004 – 2005)

MIT Organization of Serbian Students (MOST)
Member and President (2000 – 2004)

Honors and Merit-Based Scholarships

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Department of Economics and Business
Teaching Prize for teaching assistants (2011)

Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain
Research Personnel Training Grant (FPI) (2007 – 2011)

Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro
Awarded “Praise” by the commander (2005)

Municipality of Mladenovac, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Awarded “Small Coat of Arms (srb. Mali grb)” of the Municipality of Mladenovac (Awarded to one young person each year for unique achievements.) (2004)

Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia
Selected as one out of six students to represent the country in the “United World College” family of international schools (1998)

Elementary School “Dušan Đurđević” Mladenovac, Serbia
Honored as the best student of the generation (1996)

Licences and certifications

Certified Intermediary in the Trade and Rent of Real Estate (2021 – )
Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia

Languages

Serbian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (conversant, completed education up to C1 level)
Russian (conversant)
Spanish (conversant)
French (intermediate reading and writing, basic speaking)

Teaching

EBS Business School
Recently taught courses:
Empirical Corporate Finance (MSc in Finance, required) (2013-2023)
Fundamentals of Corporate Valuation (MSc in Finance, required) (2016-2023)
Finance and Economics of M&As (MSc in Finance, elective) (2016-2023)
Valuation of Startups and M&As (BSc in General Management, elective) (2021-2023)
Economics of Financial Crises (MSc in Finance, elective) (2014-2015, 2017, 2019-2022)
Research Methods (BSc program, required) (2023)
Quantitative Methods (MSc programs, required) (2023)
Academic Writing (MSc programs, required) (2021-2023)

Other courses taught in the past:
Mergers and Acquisitions (BSc in General Management, elective) (2020-2021)
Seminar in Corporate Finance and Valuation (MSc in Finance, required) (2015)
Finance II (MBA, elective) (2015)
Corporate Finance (Durham and EBS Executive MBA, elective) (2013-2015)
Seminar in Corporate Finance (MSc in Finance, required) (2013-2014)
Managing Finance (Durham and EBS Executive MBA, required) (2014)
Valuation (MSc in Finance, elective) (2014)
Economics of Corporate Finance (MSc in Finance, elective) (2013)
Microeconomics of Banking (MSc in Finance, elective) (2013)
Introduction to Econometrics (doctoral, elective) (2013)
Corporate Finance (MSc in Management, elective) (2012)

Short courses in special programs:
Workshop: Corporate Decision Making Workshop (MBA summer school) (2018-2019)
Workshop: European Approach to Decision Making (EMBA, special program for Fudan University) (2019)
Business Game (BSc & MSc summer school) (2015, 2018-2019)
Financial Crises and Firm Performance (BSc & MSc summer school) (2014-2015)
Financial Markets and Crises (MBA summer school) (2014-2015)

S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, India
2015: Corporate Finance (graduate)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Economic Growth and Development (graduate) (2009-2011)
-Assistant to Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Luigi Pascali, Francesco Caselli, Omar Licandro, and Marta Reynal-Querol
Game Theory and Institution Design (undergraduate) (2008)
-Assistant to Andreu Mas-Colell
International Economics I (undergraduate) (2007)
-Assistant to Fernando Broner

Supervision

EBS Business School (2012 – )
Second supervisor of doctoral students: Frederik Wisser, Dina Radermacher, and Mia Kasselman-Evans
Committee member for defense of ten doctoral theses
First supervisor of more than 100 BSc and MSc students

Research Talks

Conferences
Eurasia Business and Economics Society, 41st Conference, Berlin (2022)
Institute of Economic Sciences
“Econometric Modeling in Economics and Finance”, Belgrade (2019)
Serbian Marketing Association, Zlatibor (2019)
Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska
“Strategies of development and economic cooperation of small countries in the conditions of globalization and regional integration”, Banjaluka (2017)
Institute of Economic Sciences
“Sustainable Growth in Small Open Economies”, Belgrade (2017)
Miniconference in Empirical Banking, EBS University (2014)
Spanish Economic Association, Malaga (2011)
Economic History Association Annual Meeting, Boston (2011)
European Historical Economics Society, Dublin (2011)
Annual Young Serbian Economists Conference, Beograd (2011)
Cliometrics Society, La Crosse (2010)
Irish Society of New Economists, Limerick (2009)

Seminars
EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel (2020)
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade (2019, 2018, 2017)
S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, India (2017)
Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (2016)
University of Vienna, Department of Finance, Vienna (2014)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London (2012)
European Business School, Wiesbaden (multiple talks since 2012)
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (2012)
University of Edinburgh (2012)
National Bank of Serbia (2011)
UPF – CREI, International Lunch Seminar (2011, 2010, and 2009)
NYU – Stern, Financial History Seminar (2010)
UCLA, Economic History proseminar (2010)
UCLA, Macroeconomics Student Seminar (2010)
UC Davis, All-UC Graduate Student Workshop (2010)
UC Berkeley, Economic History Seminar (2010)
Universidad Carlos III, GLOBALEURONET Summer School (2010)
UPF, Labor Economics Seminar (2010)

Other invited presentations
Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (2017)
Presenter in the Summer school
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade (2017)
Discussant of the book “Global Inequality” by Branko Milanović

Research Assistant Work

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Department of Economics and Business
Assistant to Joachim Voth (2007 – 2012)
Assistant to Jens Josephson and Joel Shapiro (2007)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge-MIT Institute Electricity Project, Assistant to Michael Pollitt (2003)
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Assistant to Marija Ilić (2001)

Scholarship

Current research projects

With Elena Nikolova and Dušan Marković: “The Influence of Religion on the Role of Women in the Labor Market”.
With Jenny Kragl and Dina Radermacher: “Uncertainty and Educational Expenditure in Contemporary Europe”.
With Jan Mutl: “Treatment of the Banking Holiday of March 1933 in Growth Regressions”.
Working papers

Mladjan, Mrdjan. 2019. “Accelerating into the Abyss: Financial Dependence and the Great Depression”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2366291

Mladjan, Mrdjan M. 2019. “Moral Capital as an Element of Transitional Justice”.
Refereed journal articles

Mladjan, Mrdjan M. and Dušan Z. Marković. 2021. “Generational Responsibility in  Consumption as a Response to Global Economic Crises. Sustainability, 13(6), 3329. doi: 10.3390/su13063329

Rakita, Branko, Dušan Z. Marković and Mrdjan M. Mladjan. 2019.Fokusiranje novih multinacionalnih kompanija na globalni ‘value-for-money’ segment i nove mogućnosti za srpska preduzeća (The Focusing of New Multinational Companies on the Global ‘Value-for-Money’ Segment and the Resulting Opportunities for Serbian Companies – In Serbian)”. Marketing, 50 (4), 247-58.doi:10.5937/markt1904247R

Mladjan, Mrdjan and Dusan Markovic. 2019. “Diagrams of Power and Strategic Decision Making: the Case of Strategic Alliances in the Automotive Industry.” Management: Journal Of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies, 24(3), 2132. doi:10.7595/management.fon.2019.0015

Mlađan, Mrđan M. and Dušan Z. Marković. 2017. “Značaj znanja za blagostanje društva u savremenom svetu (The Importance of Knowldge for the Wellbeing of Society in the Contemporary World – in Serbian)”. Filozofija i Društvo /Philosophy and Society, 28 (4), 1136-1159. doi: 10.2298/FID1704136M

Peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes

Mladjan, Mrdjan, Elena Nikolova and Olga Ponomarenko. 2022. Religion and Institutions, In The Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann.  Springer, Cham. Online ISBN 978-3-319-57365-6 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_279-1.

Mlađan, Mrđan M. and Dušan Z. Marković. 2020. Предузетништво као инструмент остварења материјалног и нематеријалног благостања заједнице у савременом свету (Entrepreneurship as an Instrument for Achieving Material and Immaterial Welfare of Communities in the Contemporary World – In Serbian), In ThDr. Vladimír Kocvár, PhD (Ed.), Pravoslavie a súčasnosť XII, Zborník príspevkov z XII vedeckej konferencie študentov, absolventov a mladých vedeckých pracovníkov s medzinárodnou účasťou (In Slovakian), (pp. 77-90). Prešov: Prešovská univerzita. ISBN 978-80-555-2584-6.

Mladjan, Mrdjan. 2018. Economic Justice and Economic Efficiency in Post-Conflict Societies in Transition. In Aleksandar Fatic, Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko (Eds.), Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies (Chapter 4, pp.123-142). London: Rowman and Littlefield International. ISBN: 978-1786605887

Mladjan, Mrdjan and Aleksandar Fatić. 2018. Economics and Morality – How to Reconcile Economic Thinking and Broader Social Thinking, In Isidora Ljumović and Andrea Elteto (Ed.), Sustainable Growth and Development in Small Open Economies (pp. 199-2017). Budapest: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN: 978-963-301-663-3

Mlađan, Mrđan M. and Dušan Z. Marković. 2016. Problem neuspeha tržišta u Srbiji prilikom tranzicije na tržišnu privredu (The Problem of Market Failure in Serbia during the Transition to Market Economy – in Serbian), In Pravci strukturnih promena u procesu pristupanja Evropskoj Uniji (Directions of Structural Change in the Process of Accession to European Union), edited by Jelena Minović, Duško Bodroža, Ivan Stošić, and Božo Drašković, 130-147. Belgrade: Institute of Economic Sciences. ISBN: 978-86-89465-26-6

Other chapters in edited volumes

Dušan Z. Marković and Mrđan M. Mlađan. 2022. Uticaj COVID-19 krize na poslovnu praksu – koncept generacijski odgovorne potrošnje (The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Business Practices – The Concept of Generational Responsibility in Consumption – in Serbian). In Izazovi i perspektive marketinga (Challenges and Perspective of Marketing) Conference Proceedings, edited by Hasan Hanić and Saša Veljković, 93-101. Belgrade: Serbian Marketing  Association. ISBN-978-86-903768-1-0

Rakita, Branko, Mrđan M. Mlađan and Dušan Z. Marković. 2019. Značaj savremenih međunarodnih tokova znanja za nacionalnu konkurentnost i blagostanje društva u Republici Srbiji i Republici Srpskoj (The importance of contemporary flows of knowledge for the national competitiveness and the wellbeing of society in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska  – in Serbian), In Strategije razvoja i ekonomske saradnje malih zemalja u uslovima globalizacije i regionalnih integracija (Strategies of development and economic cooperation of small countries in the conditions of globalization and regional integration), edited by Rajko Kuzmanović, Dragoljub Mirjanić, and Drago Branković, 601-620. Banjaluka: Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska. ISBN: 978-99976-42-16-5

Other publications

Visudhiphan, Poonsaeng, Marija D. Ilic, and Mrdjan M. Mladjan. 2002. “On the Complexity of Market Power Assessment in the Electricity Spot Markets”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting, New York City, January 2731.

Press

Opinion columns in
Politika daily newspaper, Belgrade (2019)
Диплома у џаку”, with Dušan Z. Marković.

SPOJI Humanitarian magazine for culture and education, Innsbruck (2020)
“Предузетници као савремени српски домаћини”, with Dušan Z. Marković.