Vesna S. Aleksić, PhD

Principal Research Fellow

Biography:

Date and year of birth: 26. January 1970.
Place of birth: Belgrade

Education:

Undergraduate, 1995: Faculty of Philosophy, History Department, Belgrade
Master, 2000: Faculty of Philosophy, History Department, Belgrade, Master’s Theses: Social and financial history of the Allgemeiner Jugoslavischer Bankverein AG.1928-1945.
PhD, 2006: Faculty of Geoeconomics, Belgrade, Dissertation: The Great Depression in the United State of America – Society in Crisis
Specialization, 2007: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Professional record:

• Archivist, Yugoslav Archives, Belgrade (1996-2001)

• Research Fellow, Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade (2001-2004)

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Geoeconomics, Belgrade (2006-2010)

• Associate Professor, Faculty of Geoeconomics, Belgrade (2010-2012)

• Senior Research Associate, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (2016-2021)

Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (2021-2023)
Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Recent History of Serbia (2023)

Memberships:

Head of the Center for Economic History, Belgrade (2019)
Scientific Society of Economists in Serbia (NDES - since 2015)
National Convention on the European Union (NCEU), Working Groups (WGs) 17 and 29 (since 2015)
Steering committee of Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade (2014-2018)
Steering committee of Institute of Economic Sciences Belgrade, Serbia (2014-2018)
Publishing Council of Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (JWE), Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (since 2015)
Program and Publishing Council of scientific journal Bankarstvo, Association of Serbia Banks, Belgrade, (since 2011)
Southeast Europe Monetary History Network – SEMHN (since 2008)
Program and Publishing Council of scientific journal Economic Analysis, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade (2015-2018)
Commission World Learning FORECAST Exchange Program: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) & American Embassy in Belgrade (2008/2009 & 2009/2010)
Association “Serbia through Centuries”, Belgrade (since 2008; president since 2016)
Program Commission of History Department, Petnica Science Center, Serbia (2001 - 2010)
Professional Consultant of Independent Historical Commission Bank Austria Creditanstalt (2003 - 2005)
Association for Social History of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (since 1995)

Projects:

“The United States in Serbian Social Sciences and Humanities” - Institute of Economic Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2018-2019)
Tempus Project “Strengthen Students Role in Governance and Management at the Universities of Serbia in line with the Bologna process – SIGMUS” (2010 – 2012)
„European integrations and social and economic changes in Serbian economy on the way to the EU“, No. 47009, Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, (from December 2015 – December 2019).
„Challenges and prospects of structural changes in Serbia: Strategic directions for economic development and harmonization with EU requirements“, No. 179015, Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, (from January 2011 – December 2015)
Bilateral project of Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia and Republic of Slovenia: “Basis and Content of Slovenian-Serbian Economic Cooperation in 20th Century” (2008 - 2010)
Institute for Textbooks (Zavod za udžbenike): “Encyclopedia of the Serbian People” (Enciklopedija srpskog naroda), Belgrade, 2008.
Belgrade Historical Archives: “Modern Serbian State 1804 – 2004, Chronology”, (Modrna srpska država 1804-2004. Hronologija) Belgrade, 2005.
120 jubilee of National Bank of Serbia 1884 – 2004, Belgrade, 2004.

Fields of interest:

Economic and Social History of Serbia, Balkans and Southeast Europe in the 20th Century; History of National Banking and Entrepreneurship; Formation, development and historical significance of Serbian financial and political elites in the Balkans; US Economic History in the 19th and 20th Century; The Economic and Social History of the Jewish Community in Serbia

e-mail: centarzaekonomskuistoriju@gmail.com

Bibliography:

Monographs:

Париски компромис, Решавање спора о регулисању дугова Краљевине Србије између Француске Републике и Краљевине Југославије (The Paris Agreement, Resolution of the Dispute on the Settlement of Debts of the Kingdom of Serbia between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), (коаутор Драгана Гњатовић), Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2023.
From Affiliation to Nazification, The Political Destiny of a ‘Grossbank’ in Yugoslavia 1918-1945 (Од афилијације до нацификације, Политичка судбина „Гросбанке“ у Југославији 1918 – 1945), V. Aleksić, Belgrade: Institute of Economic Sciences, 2021.
Problemi deindustrijalizacije u Srbiji (Problems of deindustrialization in Serbia), B. Drašković, V. Aleksić, J. Minović, Beograd: Institut ekonomskih nauka/Institute of Economics Sciences, 2014.
Velika svetska ekonomska kriza i Sjedinjene Američke Države 1929- 1939, Model društva u krizi (The Great Depression in the United State of America 1929 - 1939, The Society in the Crisis), V. Aleksić, Beograd: Stubovi kulture, 2010.
Banka i Moć, Socijalno-finansijska istorija Opšteg jugoslovenskog bankarskog društva A.D. 1928 – 1945 (Bank and Power, Social-financial history of Allgemeiner Jugoslavischer Bankverein AG 1928 – 1945), V. Aleksić, Beograd: Stubovi kulture, 2002.

Prepared collections of papers:

Токови капитала у Југославији 1918-1991: студије случаја, eds. Весна Алексић, Јелена Рафаиловић, (Capital Flows in Yugoslavia 1918-1991: Case Studies), Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2023.
Izazovi izučavanja ekonomske istorije u Srbiji (Challenges of Studying Economic History in Serbia) eds. Vеsna Aleksić, Aleksandar Matković, Marko Miljković, Beograd: Centar za ekonomsku istoriju Instituta ekonomskih nauka (Center for Economic History, Belgrade: Institute of Economic Sciences), 2020.
Sjedinjene Američke Države u društvenim i humanističkim naukama u Srbiji (The United States in Serbian Social Sciences and Humanities) eds. Vesna Aleksić, Radina Vučetić, Institut ekonomskih nauka i Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2019.

Articles, book chapters:

(in English):

“The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Quality in Western Balkan Countries”, J. Minović, S. Stevanović, V. Aleksić, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, London-New York: Routledge, Volume 23, 2021 - Issue 1, 40-61.
“Economic Growth and Institutional Quality in South East Europe”, J. Minović, V. Aleksić, S. Stevanović, Ekonomika preduzeća, Serbian Association of Economists 1-2, 2021, 522-534 (forthcoming)
Vesna Aleksić, “Bankers as a part of the Economic and Political Elite and the Role of Bankocracy – The Case of Allgemeiner Jugoslawischer Bankverein”, Годишњак за друштвену историју, бр. 3, 2020, 7- 22.
„Silk Production as a Silk Roads Imported Industrial Heritage to Europe: The Serbian Example“, (co-autor Milica Kočović), Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads, A Contemporary Reading of Urban Transformation of Historic Cities in the Middle East and Beyond, ed. Arefian Fatemeh, Farnaz, Springer, 2020, 93-106.
„Impact of Digital Archives and Collections on Economic Research: Current Issues and Challenges“ (co-autor Jelena Minović), Digital transformation: new challenges and business opportunities, London: Silver and Smith Publishers, 2018, 127-147.
„Shaping Tradition Into Cultural-Economic Goods In Order To Achieve Sustainable Development– Case of Serbian Silk Production“ (co-autor M. Kočović), Sustainable Growth and Development in Small Open Economies Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Science, 2018, 218-234.
„Past Development of Serbian Enterpeneurship: the Case of Privately-Owned Banking Corporations“, (co-autor M. Malović), Insights and potential sources of new entrepreneurial growth, Filodiritto Publisher Inforomatica, 2017, 42-54.
„The Political Role of Financial Institution: Bankverein AG and Aryanization of Jewish property in Serbia“, Limes plus: geopolitički časopis, broj 2, Beograd, 2015, 51-63.
„The First US Intervention in Serbian Reconstruction and Recovery“, (co-authors S. Ilić, S. Jerković), International review, Belgrade: Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, br. 3/4 (2014), 9-26.
„Prometna Banka a.d. in the Modernisation Processes of Serbia in the first half of the 20th Century“, Bankarstvo, God. 42, br. 1 (2013), Beograd, 12-33.
„Analysis of Behavior of Foreign-Owned Banks in Serbia during Great Depression and Great Ressesion“, (co-authors D. Gnjatović, A. Jovancai), Economic Sciences of the Corssroad: Institute of Economics Sciences, Belgrade, 2013, 275-283.
„Legislative Frameworks Regulating the Operations of Serbian Shareholding Banks in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th Century“, Bankarstvo, God. 42, br. 6 (2013), Beograd, 76-95.
„Connection between State and Private Shareholding Banks in Serbia up to the Second World War – Case Study of the Belgrade Crediting Institute“, Bankarstvo, God. 41, br. 5 (2012), Beograd, 56-73.
„Belgrade Cooperative and its role in the Economic Development of Serbia from the late 19th to the early 20th Century“, Bankarstvo, God. 41, br. 6 (2012), Beograd, 108-133.
„Banking Association-Belgrade and the Serbian financial and political elite between the two World Wars“, Bankarstvo, God. 40, br. 5-6 (2011), Beograd, 70-94.
„Rescuing Agricultural and Banking Sector from Collapse: Agricultural Debt Consolidation in Yugoslavia 1932-1936“, (co-autor Dragana Gnjatović), Industrija, Časopis Ekonomskog instituta, br.2/2011, Beograd, 283-297.
„Connection between state and shareholdings banks in Serbia up to the Second World War – Case study of the Export Bank (Part one)“, Bankarstvo, God. 40, br. 9-10 (2011), Beograd, 106-122.
„Connection between state and shareholdings Banks in Serbia up to the Second World War – Case study of the Export Bank (Part two)“, Bankarstvo, God. 40, br. 11-12 (2011), Beograd, 112-130.
„Foreign Financial Capital as the Catalyst of Serbian Economic Development before the Second World War“, Economic and Financial Stability in SE Europe in a Historical and Comparative Perspective, Southeast Europe Monetary History Network and National Bank of Serbia, 2009, Belgrade, 315-335.
„Reconstruction & Development Assistance: The case of European Technical Advisers in Serbia after World War I“, Megatrend Review for Applied Economics, Vol. 6 (1) 2009, Belgrade, 211-228.
„Hungarian financial capital in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia“, Hungary and the Balkans. Pecs – Gate towards Balkans, University of Pecs, 2009, 248-261.
„Mission Impossible of American Experts in Serbia 1919 – 1920“, 125th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between the USA and Serbia, (Ljubinka Trgovčević – Hrs) University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade, 2008, 103-119.
“The Bank as instrument of Nazi Theft of Jewish property in Serbia during Second World War”, The Kladovo Transport, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade, 2006, 369-382.
“The Evaluation of Costumer Society Ideology in the USA in the 1920s”, Megatrend Review for Applied Economics, Vol. 3 (1) 2006, Belgrade, 123-151.
“The History of the Allgemeiner jugoslawischer Bankverein AG in Beograd in the context of Yugoslav Banking History after 1918”, 150 Jahre oesterreichische Bankengeschichte im Zentrum Europas (Oliver Rathkolb/Theodor Venus/Ulrike Zimmerl - Hrsg.), Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Wien, 2005, 226-238.
“Nazification of the Allgemeiner Jugoslavischer Bankverein AG. Political Destiny of an Economic Institution”, Deutsch-serbische Beziehungen vom Berliner Kongress bis heute (Dittmar Dalhmann/M.Kosanovic -Hrsg.), University of Bonn, 2003, 115-167.

(in Serbian):

Creditanstalt-Wiener Banverein као пример уплива међународног финансијског капитала у привреду Краљевине Југославије, Токови капитала у Југославији 1918-1991: студије случаја, ур. В. Алексић, Ј. Рафаиловић, Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2023, 51-98.
„Банкарско-индустријски конзорцијум као пример плутократизације српске политичке елите 1918 - 1944“, Токови историје, ИНИС, Београд, 2/2023, 61-89.
„Korupcija kao posledica nedovršenih insitucionalnih promena u bankarstvu Kraljevine Jugoslavije“, Značaj institucionalnih promena u ekonomiji Srbije kroz istoriju, Beograd: Centar za ekonomsku istoriju Instituta ekonomskih nauka, 2021, 269-283.
“Društvene posledice straha od epidemija kroz vekove”, Vesna Aleksić, Aleksandra Fostikov, Doomsday IV – Kuga, eds. M. Lojanica, D. Bošković, Kragujevac: Filološko-umetnički fakultet, 2020, 11-35.
„Značaj digitalizacije arhivske građe ekonomske provenijencije za razvoj interdisciplinarnih istraživanja u Srbiji“, eds. Vesna Aleksić, Aleksandar Matković, Marko Milosavljević, Izazovi izučavanja ekonomske istorije u Srbiji, Beograd: Centar za ekonomsku istoriju Instituta ekonomskih nauka, 2020, 71-88.
„Diskontinuiteti u izučavanju istorije ekonomskih odnosa SAD i Srbije“, Sjedinjene Američke Države u društvenim i humanističkim naukama u Srbiji, eds. Vesna Aleksić, Radina Vučetić, Institut ekonomskih nauka i Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2019, 177-190.
„Nacionalni odbor za slobodnu Evropu i poseta delegacije američkog Kongresa Jugoslaviji 1952. godine“, Tokovi istorije, INIS, Beograd, 2019, 111-133.
„Automobil: sinergija ekonomskog i kulturološkog fenomena“, Amerika, Filološko-umetnički fakultet, Kragujevac 2017, 51-68.
„Sprega politike i tokova novca u Srbiji: ekonomsko-istorijska pojava dugog trajanja“, Tematski zbornik: Pravci strukturnih promena u procesu pristupanja Evropskoj uniji, Institut ekonomskih nauka, 2016, 81-92.
„Društveni proizvod i efikasnost investicija u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji: 1947-1987“ (co-autor Jelena Minović), Ekonomska teorija u periodu 1958-2018, Institut ekonomskih nauka, Beograd, 2018, 106-123.
„Ekonomska istorija Srbije u domaćoj istoriografiji 2010 - 2017: Metodološki izazovi u kontekstu interdisciplinarnih istraživanja“, Ekonomska i ekohistorija, Časopis za gospodarsku povjest i povjest okoliša Vol. XIV, br, 14, Društvo za hrvatsku ekonomsku povjest i ekohistoriju, Zagreb, 2018, 212-224.
„Društveni proizvod i efikasnost investicija u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji: 1947-1987“ (koautor Jelena Minović), Zbornik radova: Ekonomska teorija u periodu 1958-2018, urednik Boža Drašković i dr. Institut ekonomskih nauka, 2018, 106-123.