[1] After spending time at the Boulder Economics Institute and University of Pittsburgh he returned to Zagreb and received his doctorate in 1990.
In 1991 he started teaching at the Zagreb Faculty of Economics and in 1992 he became the director of the analysis department of the Croatian National Bank (HNB).
His term ended in 2000 when he was succeeded by Željko Rohatinski.
He also took part in their projects in Montenegro, Kosovo, Romania and Ukraine.
In September 2007 he was appointed Chief economist at Privredna banka Zagreb,[2] which is the second largest bank in Croatia, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo corporate group.