Vasja Rant
PhD

Vasja Rant is associate professor of money and finance at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana. He finished his PhD at the School of Economics and Business in 2008 with additional training from the IMF Institute, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros in Madrid and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He currently teaches undergraduate and master level courses in international finance and European economic integration. He also has substantive international teaching experience at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria), Kyungpook National University (Republic of Korea) and Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey). As a lecturer and consultant, he has also collaborated with the business community, the financial sector and the public sector in Slovenia and the countries of former Yugoslavia. His research interests mainly include EU economic integration, banking and international finance topics, with recent focus on sustainable finance. He has published several articles in international and slovenian peer-reviewed journals as well as book chapters. He is editorial board member of Bančni vestnik (Banking journal, Econlit). Professionally, he has cooperated with the Slovenian government on multiple occasions about EU related topics and has actively participated in multiple negotiations about the EU multiannual financial frameworks (for periods 2007-2013, 2014-2020 and 2021-2021) as well as the Next Generation EU financial package in light of the Covid-19 crisis.

• Marinč, Matej, Rant, Vasja
  A cross-country analysis of bank bankruptcy regimes
  Journal of financial stability, Aug. 2014, vol. 13, str. 134-150.

• Marinč, Matej, Mrak, Mojmir, Rant, Vasja
  Dimensions of bank capital regulation: a cross-country analysis
  Panoeconomicus, 2014, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 415-439.

• Fuente, Ángel de la, Doménech, Rafael, Rant, Vasja
  Addressing the net balances problem as a prerequisite for EU budget reform: a proposal
  CESifo economic studies, 2010, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 221-250

• Rant, Vasja, Mrak, Mojmir
  The 2007-13 financial perspective : domination of national interests
  Journal of common market studies, Mar. 2010, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 347-372

• Rant, Vasja.
  Pomanjkljivosti, izzivi in prihodnost evrskega območja (Flaws, challenges and the future of the euro area)
  Bančni vestnik, jan./feb. 2015, vol. 64, no. 1/2, pp. 48-55.

• Rant, Vasja, Gregorič, Jernej.
  ECB policy measures and their effects during financial crisis
  Bančni vestnik, jul./avg. 2014, letn. 63, no. 7/8, pp. 62-68

• Marinč, Matej, Mrak, Mojmir, Rant, Vasja.
  How much bank capital is enough: reconciling the views of academics and regulators
  Bančni vestnik, nov. 2012, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 83-89

• Vasja Rant and Mojmir Mrak
  Modelling financial flows between the Republic of Slovenia and the EU budget in the multiannual financial framework 2014-20
  Final report, (in slovenian), Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, 2012, 131 p.

• Mrak, Mojmir, Drobnič, Mitja, Erjavec, Emil, Mavko, Mitja, Rant, Vasja, Ravnik, Branko, Šušteršič, Janez, Vajgl, Uroš, Wostner, Peter
  EU budget review: an opportunity for a real or virtual reform?
  Report of the EU budget reform project group (in slovenian), Ljubljana, 2007, Government Office for European affairs, 127 p.