Jelena Budak, PhD

Education

• 2005 PhD at the Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek
• 1992 MA at IFP-ENSPM, Rueil-Malmaison, France - Economics of Energy
• 1990 university degree at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb

Employment and work experience

• since 2001 - The Institute of Economics, Zagreb
• 1997-2001 - Aquarius, Zagreb - export director
• 1996-1997 - Alfatec, Zagreb - product program manager
• 1994-1995 - Alfatec branch in Kemerovo, Russia - deputy director
• 1993-1994 - Origo, Zagreb - assistant director
• 1992-1993 - Vitol Oil Trading Co., London - representative for Croatia, Zagreb

Fields of interest

• privacy in an on-line environment
• institutions and public sector policies
• the quality of public governance and corruption

Selected bibliography

• Frey, Barbara, Jelena Budak and Bruno Škrinjarić. 2024. Private Sector Perspective on Corruption and Informality: A Comparative Analysis of Serbia and Croatia, Post-Communist Economies online first 1.2.2024.
• Frey, Barbara, Bruno Škrinjarić and Jelena Budak. 2024. Perception of Corruption and Informality among Croatian Businesspeople, Journal of East European Management Studies 29(1), 124-156.
• Frey, Barbara, Bruno Škrinjarić and Jelena Budak. 2022. Perceptions of Corruption and Informality among Businesspeople. The South East European Journal of Economics and Business, 17(2), 49-66.
• Budak, Jelena, Edo Rajh, Sunčana Slijepčević and Bruno Škrinjarić. 2021. Conceptual research framework of consumer resilience to privacy violation online, Sustainability 13(3), 1238.
• Škrinjarić, Bruno, Jelena Budak and Edo Rajh. 2020. Perceived quality of privacy protection regulations and online privacy concern. Ekonomska istraživanja-Economic Research 33(1), 3492-3508.
• Budak, Jelena, Edo Rajh, Goran Buturac and Anamarija Brković. 2020. Tobacco Gray Market in the Western Balkans. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 23(1), 62-76.
• Anić, Ivan-Damir, Jelena Budak, Edo Rajh, Vedran Recher, Vatroslav Škare and Bruno Škrinjarić. 2018. Extended model of online privacy concern: What drives consumers' decisions? Online Information Review 43(5), 799-817. 
• Rajh, Edo, Jovanov Apasieva, Tamara, Budak, Jelena, Ateljević, Jovo, Davčev, Ljupčo, and Ognjenović, Kosovka. 2018. Youth and Entrepreneurial Intentions in four South East European Countries, International Review of Entrepreneurship 16(3), 355-382.
• Budak, Jelena and Edo Rajh. 2014. Corruption as an obstacle for doing business in Western Balkans: A business sector perspective, International Small Business Journal 32(2), 140-157. 
• Budak, Jelena, Ivan-Damir Anić and Edo Rajh. 2013. Public attitudes towards privacy and surveillance in Croatia, Innovation - The European Journal of Social Science Research 26(1-2), 100-118.