Ass.-Prof. Leonard Kukić, PhD
Room: 02.34 (Main building, staircase VI, 2nd floor)
Email: leonard.kukic@univie.ac.at
Since 02/2025 Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economic History (Tenure Track)
Research interests
- Economic History
- Economic Growth and Development
- Eastern Europe
Ongoing research
- 2025 - Current Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economic History, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna
Selected recent publications
- (2024). “Technical Change and the Postwar Slowdown in Soviet Economic Growth in a Long Run
Perspective, 1885-2019,” Economic History Review, 77, pp. 644-674 - (2023). “The Last Yugoslavs: Ethnic Diversity and National Identity,” Explorations in Economic His-
tory, 88, pp. 1-42 - (2021). “The Nature of Technological Failure: Patterns of Biased Technical Change in Socialist Eu-
rope,” Journal of Economic Surveys, 35, pp. 895-925 - (2020). “Origins of Regional Divergence: Economic Growth in Socialist Yugoslavia,” Economic History
Review, 73, pp. 1097-1127